... There have been several posts from people who had guns w/o sufficient sear engagement...guns that 'just went off' upon releasing the safety. What do you consider the proper trigger pull? Bill
Remington finally changed their trigger design a while back due to a M700 design flaw that was known since the 60�s. The problem was that some rifles could fire on the release of the safety. The number of rifles affected varied by model but I think it was about 1% for normal M700s and near 50% for M600�s or whatever they called them.
Remington knew of the problem and preferred to pay off lawsuits rather than fix the design. Only recently (a few years back) did they issue a recall. Most of the affected rifles have not been modified and probably never will be.
Sounds to me like a good reason to go cold until actually ready to shoot.
Coyote Hunter If you do a search here on 700 triggers, the Walker trigger, whatever, you can likely find details of the cases involved and much more than you want to read.
But a couple points; there was never a recall, several changes were made over time including using beefier trigger weight springs, the trigger change was not related to any civil action or defect in the Walker trigger, the primary case cited was a MT woman that shot her son on the other side of a horse trailer with a rifle that could not be made to fail again.
The most dangerous aspect of that trigger was the Bubba that got inside it... art
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
