Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

[tfre3927]

Worth the upgrade? It's $80..

Does anyone have an upgrade like this or have an experience with upgraded firing pins? I'm a little new to the long arm rifle scene, but if this is a nice improvement on 'lock time' as the product info describes then maybe it's a good investment?

Titanium firing pin Product link

 

[cav has been]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

No experience with the Ti. pin. On the advice of some gun plumbers with a lot more gray whiskers than I have, I chose an oversize standard weight Hollands firing pin backed up with a 24# wolff spring. About $48 and a little hand fitting,voila, quick lock time, strong primer strikes, no more pierced primers. Would sure go that way again.

 

[Chiller]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

my question and just being the geek I am.

What part/parts are titanium and what alloy of titanium (it does make a difference)

 

[tfre3927]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

Thanks for the info for that Hollands firing pin - I think that would be the way to go if much older and wiser gunnies with many grey whiskers etc are doing their ordering with them.
Reckons it's $32 on the website for the pin and $8.30 for the spring.

Anyone want to check it out:
http://www.hollandguns.com/index.html
..and click on Remington 700

For the Wolff springs:
http://www.tinyurl.com.au/fz8


Parts - It seems to just be a coating of titanium nitride alloy (not specified) but the info reckons that it is 40% less in weight than a standard pin.

 

[ArcticFun]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

If it's a titanium spring not just the coating I would assume you get quicker locktime and consistency over the longer run just looking at the properties of the medal.

I know that some forms/alloys of titanium have NO memory and will always return to their original shape. Add that to a signifigantly lighter weight over steel should improve things.

 

[Skyking]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

I shoot one and seams to work good for me. I would do it again.

http://www.davidtubb.com/speedlock.html

 

[Mr Flannel]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

Mate

Do yourself a favour and get or stay with a good old-fashioned steel firing pin. I've had two Rem 700 speedlock alloy firing pins shear in two just back from the firing pin head.

Or if you want to use the alloy ones, make sure you carry a spare.

I use the Lawton steel pin with a wolff spring. Bit heavier but I'll take reliability first every time.

 

[clmayfield]

Re: Titanium Firing Spring for Remington 700 LTR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skyking</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I shoot one and seams to work good for me. I would do it again.

http://www.davidtubb.com/speedlock.html</div></div>

The Tubb system uses an aluminum alloy for the pin and chrome silicon for the spring.

If I were choosing, that is what I would go with, though I don't know that any of these will make much of a difference in pure accuracy. Reduced lock time should help a little with off-hand shooting where you have a lot of wobble. For supported positions, I don't know that lock time is a big deal. Rem 700's already have pretty fast lock times. With a Win M70, the difference might be significant enough to go for it.