Originally Posted by cfran
All:

Looking for some guidance, had a scary situation last weekend while on stand with my tried and true model 700 in 308. Just so folks are aware, I had this gun built some 15+ years ago, Douglas barrel, Shilen trigger, McMillian stock . . . it's shot a lot of whitetails over the years and probably has 300-400 rounds down the tube w/o incident, great gun.

So while in my stand last weekend, before shooting light I was thinking that my Father just had his Model 700 undergo the product recall fix with the safety/trigger situation about a year ago and my mind starting thinking about that. So the long and short of it was I put my right hand on the forearm of the stock and with my index finger and thumb on the safety I pushed the safety forward into the "fire" position. No worries, gun was safely pointed away. Well the gun went bang and I know with 100% that my finger was nowhere near the trigger. Scared the crap out of me and I really don't know why I checked it in the first place.

Am interested in any thoughts, obviously I won't hunt with it until I get it checked out. But I have done no trigger adjustments or anything to the gun. Open to suggestions and wondering if anyone has had this happen to them.

Thanks!

Well, I was going to be snarky and say Rem + AD go together like husband/wife... But I won't. laugh laugh


Just going by the above... You state: (1) You had this built 15+ years ago. (2) You have not touched this trigger.. (ergo) IMHO, you NEED to 'touch' this trigger because I would bet a hunsky that it's fouled/sticky and it's in sore need to cleaning/attention.. Any time an owner has a firearm with an enclosed trigger the owner better be payin' very VERY close attention to cleanliness..

Inspect, and post back with results please..


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