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14 years 2 months ago #5736 by foxhunter
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Anyone besides me watch that special on cnbc about Remington arms and the trigger problem on their model 700's? It was scary. Savage , Browning and Winchester can stop marketing now. Noone who saw that is going to buy a 700

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14 years 2 months ago - 14 years 2 months ago #5738 by BUILDING MY SASS
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I wish I had....
That is what happens when MONKEYS in suits run all the gun companies........ :angry:
I don't know about the 700s, but I had a 770 that had a VERY scary ...you couldn't release the safety with your finger on the ....BOOM....I sold it...Remington told me to have it looked at...don't like guns with Hair s...NOT SAFE.....
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14 years 2 months ago #5739 by Edge
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I have not seen it yet. Read a lot of commentary on other boards about it and had a good conversation with my brother-in-law, who did see it, about the whole issue.

From what I gather, Remington should have fixed it from the start. If they would have done that, their reputation would be intact.

Having not seen the show...yet, I've talked with my gunsmith's and others who have and they've stated that when they get these rifles in for repair, the majority have had the triggers adjusted by people who didn't know what they were doing, or there was so much crap in the trigger area that a good cleaning fixed the problem.

Does this excuse Remington....no! They screwed up and should have fixed the trigger.

I heard that they talked about some lady who shot her son when she was unloading her rifle after a hunting trip. If this is the case, I have to ask, why in the world was she pointing her rifle at her son?????!!!!!! I wouldn't do this with any gun, period, whether it be a Remington, Savage, Armalite, or whatever.

Will I still buy a Remington 700.....you bet! They are still the best affordably priced, commercially made, action out there. Some would disagree with me, but I've had them all, Winchester, Browning, Savage, etc. and the Remington is still my favorite.

There are other actions out there that I like just as well or better, but for price point it's hard to beat, especially if you want to build a rifle.

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14 years 2 months ago #5765 by donkey1984
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i saw the show and they said that the lady who shot her son accidentaly was pointing it in what she thought was a safe direction(towards a empty horse trailer). Unkowinly to her, her son had gotten off his horse which was behind her. he got off it and went to the far side of the trailer to get a sweater. she had an old 700(the kind you had to take the safety off to work the bolt to unload it). she says she didn't touch the trigger, and when she went to work the bolt it went off. the bullet went through the trailer and killed her son. Now if she really did not touch the trigger i think she is only guilty of extremely bad situational awareness. but who knows. there were many cases of guns messing up though...who knows why though(botched trigger jobs, dirty triggers, etc). They did say that the x-pro trigger is completely safe(the man who actually invented the 700 said it) the inventer actually tried to get remington to fix the problem in the 60's in think at a cost of 5.5 cents a gun...they said it was to expensive.

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14 years 2 months ago #5779 by Al Mack
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We were talking about this the other day at the range. All of us thought that in most cases, some one had done some trigger work on there gun. Also in no situation point a gun in any direction that you don't know where the bullet will go. Do not point it at a tree empty building, just down range or at a distant point that will not hide anything. Just my .02

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14 years 2 months ago #5796 by Itsme
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I had a Remington model 788 .308 go off on me,in the house, just as I closed the bolt on a live round. It went through the wall and killed a bathtub. I'm glad I wasn't pointing the rifle toward my daughter's room. Needless to say I got rid of the rifle. A few years later I was deer hunting with a friend and son. My friend was hunting with a Remington BDL 6mm. One evening on the way back to camp he decided to try to shoot a quail, that was about 25 yds. away. As he pushed off the safety the rifle fired. The round hit the dirt about 10 feet in front of his son that was standing beside him.
The really sad part of this story is that these incidents happened in the late 1970's. Why is this just now coming to light now? Where has Remington's QC been all these years? :unsure:

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