My Rem 700 FIRED on Bolt Closing!!

[Remmy700]

l appreciate your experience and input. However, I will continue my method and You can continue yours.

I will have to agree with bigngreen on the proper way to set a trigger.

Start with the common sense approach and realize that the sear adjustment is a dimension. (How much mechanical engagement it has). the trigger pull has nothing to do with the sear engagement, only the amount of trigger force it takes to overcome the sear.

I honed and polished triggers to make them safer and brake better before you could buy all of the aftermarket triggers and had to make the factory ones better. The angles are critical for continuous feel and clean braking as the to surfaces slide against each other. The more trigger pull, the more resistance the sear has to moving but the dimensions have not changed.

Most triggers have three adjustments. The sear should only be adjusted by someone that understands how a trigger works and how unsafe it can be if the sear is adjusted wrong. Two much sear engagement causes the trigger to have creep, two little and the trigger becomes unsafe. My recommendation for most, is to never change the sear adjustment just set trigger pull and over travel to suet your needs. some like more over travel than others and some like different trigger pull weights.

To a point trigger pull weights and over travel can be safely adjusted
as long as there is enough sear engagement. just because there is an adjustment screw for the sear doesn't mean you should use it. it is there for the manufacture to use to set it properly and most fully adjustable triggers will come with a warning not to adjust the sear.

One other thing, I am not the site sensor but would warn against profanity. Keep it civil and you will get a lot more respect.

J E CUSTOM[/

 

[Bro Dave]

Hello Fellas,

This was a one-time occurrence but my Rem 700 fired when I closed the bolt.

The rifle has a Trigger Tech Trigger and the action has been blueprinted. The ONLY thing different about this incident was that I was chambering a round that I didn't FL size down to the base, and I was having difficulty closing the bolt on it. Actually, I had to push the bolt forward very strongly and I was in the process of forcing the bolt down when it went off. It fired the second the bolt was down all the way.

That said, I don't think that it should have fired but I would like to hear what you guys think, and if this is "normal" because of what I did or if there is something wrong with the gun. I have several hundred rounds through the rifle and this has never happened

What do you say??

No it should never happen under any circumstance. But before you go any further is there a chance that while forcing the bolt closed the ring finger of your bolt closing hand brushed the trigger as you forced the bolt down?

 

[bigngreen]

Just for the record a gun doesn't accidentally kill someone. Bullets don't get put in it on its own, they don't point themselves, and they don't discharge themselves....

The only thing Remington did was hire crappy lawyers and picked ------ jurors.

I find it hard to believe that a $200 trigger used exclusively for PRS is a crap trigger. I would like to hear back from trigger tech before we start calling lawyers for us pointing guns at things they shouldn't be pointed at.

PRS is hardly a BS free source of what works, sponcerships talks WAY louder than performance!! I've seen guys raving about how awesome the performance is of a free rifle on line while I'm in the guts of it trying to make something even function correctly so they can shoot it!!

 

[Tulsa Reiner]

That's why I won't use Trigger Tech, by design they won't work in every action because they are not adjustable for sear engagement, every one I've sent back was to spec and had to be sold and replaced with a Timney. I've had more than one do it and just not worth it!!

Bigngreen: how many are you talking about?

 

[Deleted member 48126]

Alright tagging out of this thread. OP don't kill anyone.

 

[bigngreen]

Bigngreen: how many are you talking about?

We're up to 4 that wouldn't function on a Rem action, all customs work fine.

 

[J E Custom]

l appreciate your experience and input. However, I will continue my method and You can continue yours.

No problem, that's what makes the world go around.

Here is a link similar to the method I use, and it is very simple to understand for those that haven't done it before that works for me. the method is not as important as the final results if it ends up safe.

http://quarterbore.com/library/articles/rem700trigger.html

There are many different types of sear design and one must know and understand each to be able to work them over and make them operate at their best. The sear is the heart of a fine trigger and not just an adjustment.

Hope this helps some.

J E CUSTOM

 

[betolatinlu]

Hey wait, you're right! If I slam the bolt as hard as I can it does fire!

Are you saying that I should increase trigger pull weight?

I have a Ruger 77 in 22/250 that did that once . I I increased trigger weight and it never happened again.

 

[richv]

Hello Fellas,

This was a one-time occurrence but my Rem 700 fired when I closed the bolt.

The rifle has a Trigger Tech Trigger and the action has been blueprinted. The ONLY thing different about this incident was that I was chambering a round that I didn't FL size down to the base, and I was having difficulty closing the bolt on it. Actually, I had to push the bolt forward very strongly and I was in the process of forcing the bolt down when it went off. It fired the second the bolt was down all the way.

That said, I don't think that it should have fired but I would like to hear what you guys think, and if this is "normal" because of what I did or if there is something wrong with the gun. I have several hundred rounds through the rifle and this has never happened

What do you say??

That happened to me twice in the 15 years I owned and shot a Remington 700. Once was when I accidentally depressed the trigger while closing the bolt, and once the trigger was stuck in the depressed position. On the second case, a quick pass with a stone over the trigger's mating surfaces solved that problem, with a bit of silicon lube for seasoning.

 

[FEENIX]

Uh-oh...Remington bashing thread here we come.

@FEENIX get the popcorn.

 

[FEENIX]

Air Force so even worse than a redneck!

Watch it, I'm retired but trigger finger still works.

 

[FEENIX]

OK Fellas, TT called me yesterday and a new trigger is on its way out to me

Cool! Heard many good things about TT and happy end-users.

This proves that Murphy does not discriminate.

 

[Arneson]

Hello Fellas,

This was a one-time occurrence but my Rem 700 fired when I closed the bolt.

The rifle has a Trigger Tech Trigger and the action has been blueprinted. The ONLY thing different about this incident was that I was chambering a round that I didn't FL size down to the base, and I was having difficulty closing the bolt on it. Actually, I had to push the bolt forward very strongly and I was in the process of forcing the bolt down when it went off. It fired the second the bolt was down all the way.

That said, I don't think that it should have fired but I would like to hear what you guys think, and if this is "normal" because of what I did or if there is something wrong with the gun. I have several hundred rounds through the rifle and this has never happened

What do you say??

 

[Arneson]

Take back have trigger checked sear is to light or not enough pressure on it that means prolly could set down hard on stock butt plate and will go off to