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Just bought 4 Rem 783's for $199 each!
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<blockquote data-quote="III Percent" data-source="post: 1144957" data-attributes="member: 93571"><p>Hey, been lurking on this site and just decided to join so I could reply to this thread.</p><p>I own 3 Rem 783's that I got for 199 each as well. One was an '06 but now its a pac-nor #8 28" 8 twist 7mm-08 (long action so I have plenty of room for the berger 195's). In a boyds pro varmint stock. Another 7mm Rem mag that's also in a pro varmint, and a .270 that's all stock. I still have the factory '06 barrel as well, so I guess you could say I have 4 of these. </p><p></p><p>I love these rifles, they all shoot great!</p><p></p><p>What I especially want to share with you is the work I did to the trigger. It is extremely easy to perform a trigger job on the trigger group. I pushed out the pins holding in the trigger blade, removed the trigger, cut one coil off of the sear safety spring to soften that first step in squeezing the trigger, removed the trigger spring and went down to home depot with it. I found a whole box of misc. springs there, and one type in the box was a perfect match in length and width to the trigger spring, only a lighter gauge wire making it a lot softer. I installed this spring in place with the adjustment screw backed all the way down. Finally I took the trigger and polished the sear engagement surface to a shine. I just used my work sharp belt sander knife sharpener with the polishing belt on and ran it over the surface until it was shiny. </p><p></p><p>End result was an extremely excellent trigger, I haven't measured the pull weight on it but it breaks like glass with little pressure, I'm guessing around a pound or so. I drop tested it many times banging it around pretty good and it never fired. Maybe that sear safety is doing its job? I have been thinking about making a YouTube movie about this to explain it visualy. It only took about 10 mins of actual work. I could have taken out the sear and polished that too, but I never did after putting it back together because it feels great with just the trigger polished.</p><p>The only thing is I wish the trigger had an adjustment to take out over travel, it still isn't as good as my model 70 trigger in that regard, but you don't notice it unless your used to shooting a trigger with no over travel. Let me know if you guys are interested in a video or pics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="III Percent, post: 1144957, member: 93571"] Hey, been lurking on this site and just decided to join so I could reply to this thread. I own 3 Rem 783's that I got for 199 each as well. One was an '06 but now its a pac-nor #8 28" 8 twist 7mm-08 (long action so I have plenty of room for the berger 195's). In a boyds pro varmint stock. Another 7mm Rem mag that's also in a pro varmint, and a .270 that's all stock. I still have the factory '06 barrel as well, so I guess you could say I have 4 of these. I love these rifles, they all shoot great! What I especially want to share with you is the work I did to the trigger. It is extremely easy to perform a trigger job on the trigger group. I pushed out the pins holding in the trigger blade, removed the trigger, cut one coil off of the sear safety spring to soften that first step in squeezing the trigger, removed the trigger spring and went down to home depot with it. I found a whole box of misc. springs there, and one type in the box was a perfect match in length and width to the trigger spring, only a lighter gauge wire making it a lot softer. I installed this spring in place with the adjustment screw backed all the way down. Finally I took the trigger and polished the sear engagement surface to a shine. I just used my work sharp belt sander knife sharpener with the polishing belt on and ran it over the surface until it was shiny. End result was an extremely excellent trigger, I haven't measured the pull weight on it but it breaks like glass with little pressure, I'm guessing around a pound or so. I drop tested it many times banging it around pretty good and it never fired. Maybe that sear safety is doing its job? I have been thinking about making a YouTube movie about this to explain it visualy. It only took about 10 mins of actual work. I could have taken out the sear and polished that too, but I never did after putting it back together because it feels great with just the trigger polished. The only thing is I wish the trigger had an adjustment to take out over travel, it still isn't as good as my model 70 trigger in that regard, but you don't notice it unless your used to shooting a trigger with no over travel. Let me know if you guys are interested in a video or pics. [/QUOTE]
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