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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1649215" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>More on the strength and safety of the Remington 700 design (from <a href="https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/06/daniel-zimmerman/p320-entry-remington-700-still-best-bolt-gun/" target="_blank">https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/06/daniel-zimmerman/p320-entry-remington-700-still-best-bolt-gun/</a>):</p><p><u><strong>Safety</strong></u></p><p>The 700 also offers more safety features than most other rifles on the market. This is particularly important with the continued growth of reloading and experimentation in the mainstream firearms community. Where many other rifles have sought to strengthen their firing pin stop to mitigate the blow back from a case failure, Remington instead created the three rings of steel. The 700 has a very deep counter-bored bold head, nearly encompassing the entirety of a case head. From there the bolt goes into a counter-bored lock ring, adding another layer of steel around the case. This lock ring is in turn set in a recess in the barrel, adding a third layer of steel between the shooter and a blown case. While other rifles try to reduce the risk of injury to shooters from a blown case, the 700 eliminates it.</p><p></p><p>It could be said that the clearances around the lugs allowing greater resistance to binding reduce this effect, however, <strong>the bolt head on a 700 is specifically engineered to expand in the event of failure and completely seal off the breech</strong>. This eliminates the need for a secondary firing pin stops employed by other actions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1649215, member: 9308"] More on the strength and safety of the Remington 700 design (from [URL]https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/06/daniel-zimmerman/p320-entry-remington-700-still-best-bolt-gun/[/URL]): [U][B]Safety[/B][/U] The 700 also offers more safety features than most other rifles on the market. This is particularly important with the continued growth of reloading and experimentation in the mainstream firearms community. Where many other rifles have sought to strengthen their firing pin stop to mitigate the blow back from a case failure, Remington instead created the three rings of steel. The 700 has a very deep counter-bored bold head, nearly encompassing the entirety of a case head. From there the bolt goes into a counter-bored lock ring, adding another layer of steel around the case. This lock ring is in turn set in a recess in the barrel, adding a third layer of steel between the shooter and a blown case. While other rifles try to reduce the risk of injury to shooters from a blown case, the 700 eliminates it. It could be said that the clearances around the lugs allowing greater resistance to binding reduce this effect, however, [B]the bolt head on a 700 is specifically engineered to expand in the event of failure and completely seal off the breech[/B]. This eliminates the need for a secondary firing pin stops employed by other actions. [/QUOTE]
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