Remington 700 fired, on safe, while bolt being closed

[Capt.Cody]

I saw something on t.V. about this and a lawsuit because several civilians were killed. They went in depth and interviewed Both ARMY and MARINE snipers...Said that it happened quite a bit more than they were cool with..

[MistWolf]

I've played around with a few old school Remington triggers. You've got to keep the innards clean. Get any kind of debris in there and they do some strange things

[JBecker 72]

Well this sure is a scary topic to read. I had heard this once a while ago but thought it was just a freak incident or possibly user error. Would love to get more details on the gun, what it's condition is, etc.

I have a 700 that is less than 2 years old and has maybe 200 rounds through it.

[JB326]

I've seen it happen twice, both in LE sniper schools. One was an older Remington trigger in 07 and the other was a 40x trigger back in October. It was very unpleasant and unsettling on both occasions.

Our work guns got new Timney's because of this possibility.

[TommyG]

TommyG- I have been doing some research I have found a multitude of events where unmodified guns have gone off under the same circumstances. I have left the gun untouched since the event. I took some pictures but that is it, so I have not been able to determine if has a new X mark trigger or not.

Chad- Thanks man, and read that review you posted, glad to help.

Will be interested to see what you find out. We have quite a few 700s. With a couple of first hand accounts of this it has me thinking we need to consider trigger upgrades.

[ericridebike]

Yeah, definitely interested in hearing what the issue was. Don't want to experience the same with my SPS Tactical.

[brushy bill]

Be interesting to see the cause and how Remington responds.

[signal4l]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39554936

This is the link to the CNBC story about Rem700 triggers. There was a very informative post on Tacticalforums.com regarding this. I have had no luck pulling it up. Looks like the older stuff on that site is not searchable.

[pgpd3147]

We are issued rifles with those shitty triggers. We were actually taught to put it on fire and SLOWLY load the round.

[Alpha Sierra]

Have you adjusted or attempted to adjust the trigger pull weight or sear engagement in any way prior to this?