Attn: Remington 700 Owners

[PinesAndProjectiles]

CNBC: Remington rifle settlement, including free trigger replacement, is official.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/remington-rifle-settlement-is-official.html

 

[Soulezoo]

Well good. Guess I have several triggers on the way.

 

[03psd]

Well good. Guess I have several triggers on the way.

Not exactly. According to the article, you need to send your rifles to them for them to swap out the triggers and ship them back.
Yeah, I am not doing that either

 

[spife7980]

I thought it was official a decade ago at least? Isnt that why they went from the walker to the xmark pro?

Edit: googled up some more articles with the actual info in them and this is a recall on the xmp prior to 2014, not the original walker like the previous recall was for.

 

[Badfinger]

That will be the death of Remington.....

 

[CJS-6.5]

If you have an older 700 that was produced back when they know what they were doing, and you ship it to the current Remington to have them muck it up, then I would advise you to practice using a cutting torch on it instead.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

I have a Remington trigger on one rifle and it's a Bergara.

Just a by and by, did anyone notice that in that article the picture is captioned as being a "Remington 700 trigger mechanism" but that trigger has a blade safety and the cocking piece is all wrong. Riddle me that.

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

I have a Remington trigger on one rifle and it's a Bergara.

Just a by and by, did anyone notice that in that article the picture is captioned as being a "Remington 700 trigger mechanism" but that trigger has a blade safety and the cocking piece is all wrong. Riddle me that.

I didnt know Remington made a trigger with a blade safety.

 

[spife7980]

I have a Remington trigger on one rifle and it's a Bergara.

Just a by and by, did anyone notice that in that article the picture is captioned as being a "Remington 700 trigger mechanism" but that trigger has a blade safety and the cocking piece is all wrong. Riddle me that.

Rem 783 has a blade but Im sure that its just cnbc using a stock photo

 

[Trigger Monkey]

It's not a stock photo, it's from a picture of Rich Barber from another CNBC report

I just thought that if they were going to caption something as being a Remington 700 trigger they'd want it to be accurate, you know being journalists and all.

 

[Soulezoo]

Accuracy in journalism is mutually exclusive

 

[Soulezoo]

And yeah, not sending in my 700's. 2 from the 70's, one from the 80's and one from the 90's.
The 2 from the 70's are terrific rifles. The other two are more "meh". Not bad but not great.

 

[Stevo86]

Out of curiosity has anyone of you had an issue with a 700 trigger malfunctioning and going boom? I’ve got prolly 25 Remington 700s ranging from 5 digit guns to modern day and I’ve never had one malfunction. The older ones still have the Walker triggers, I replaced most of the x marks w/ timneys

 

[hlee]

A friend of the family customized his pickup by putting a 0.277 caliber hole in the passenger floorboard, using a rem 700. This was and older model with the walker trigger. Out of a dozen or so that I've been around with that trigger (including two of my own) this is the only AD of which I have 1st hand experience. No way would I send in either of mine. They're not custom good, but they're pretty damned good none the less.

 

[Soulezoo]

Out of curiosity has anyone of you had an issue with a 700 trigger malfunctioning and going boom? I’ve got prolly 25 Remington 700s ranging from 5 digit guns to modern day and I’ve never had one malfunction. The older ones still have the Walker triggers, I replaced most of the x marks w/ timneys

Yes, 2 ND's related to the trigger. One on one of my older rifles and one from my late 80's model.