Good day Hide,
I've got an annoying problem with my (previously reliable) Remington 700 SA that I've been struggling to diagnose.
The rifle is built around an old R700 SPS .223 action that I've been putting lots of lipstick on over the years. It has an aftermarket Remage barrel and Timney trigger, and used to live in a KRG Bravo.
More recently, I played a bit of musical chairs with my setups and placed the R700 in an MDT ACC Elite chassis. Ever since I've done that, 80% of my shots have been a sort of delayed and/or failure to fire. I pull the trigger, hear the click of the sear releasing, but can see the firing pin indicator stay extended in the back of the bolt. Sometimes, after a fraction of a second, the firing pin will drop and the action fires. Other times, the firing pin stays back and doesn't actually release until I've either tapped on the bolt or (more scarily) touched the safety (while staying on target of course).
I've taken the bolt apart, and there's no gunk, oil buildup, or other immediately apparent faults with it. I use the exact same amount of torque on the action as I did in the Bravo, using a Torque Screwdriver. The rear action screw does not protrude into the action.
Frustratingly, I have also been unable to reproduce the fault at home or at the range using snap caps or fired brass. The gun seems to function 100% with those. It only happens with loaded, chambered ammo!
Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
Obviously the "easy" answer would be to put it back into the Bravo and hope that the problem goes away again, but the curious side of me would rather try to find the fault and fix it.
I've got an annoying problem with my (previously reliable) Remington 700 SA that I've been struggling to diagnose.
The rifle is built around an old R700 SPS .223 action that I've been putting lots of lipstick on over the years. It has an aftermarket Remage barrel and Timney trigger, and used to live in a KRG Bravo.
More recently, I played a bit of musical chairs with my setups and placed the R700 in an MDT ACC Elite chassis. Ever since I've done that, 80% of my shots have been a sort of delayed and/or failure to fire. I pull the trigger, hear the click of the sear releasing, but can see the firing pin indicator stay extended in the back of the bolt. Sometimes, after a fraction of a second, the firing pin will drop and the action fires. Other times, the firing pin stays back and doesn't actually release until I've either tapped on the bolt or (more scarily) touched the safety (while staying on target of course).
I've taken the bolt apart, and there's no gunk, oil buildup, or other immediately apparent faults with it. I use the exact same amount of torque on the action as I did in the Bravo, using a Torque Screwdriver. The rear action screw does not protrude into the action.
Frustratingly, I have also been unable to reproduce the fault at home or at the range using snap caps or fired brass. The gun seems to function 100% with those. It only happens with loaded, chambered ammo!
Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
Obviously the "easy" answer would be to put it back into the Bravo and hope that the problem goes away again, but the curious side of me would rather try to find the fault and fix it.
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