Remington 700

[MikePapa1]

I just saw the CNBC hour long "expose'" on the Remington 700. I sold my 700 in 30-06 a few years ago when I quit hunting deer. I never had a problem with unintentional discharges and was curious about the experience of others.

[R1100R]

It has been discussed in this thread.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/long-guns/47823-remington-700-unintentional-fire.html?highlight=REMINGTON+700

[mikegideon]

In a nutshell... unintentional discharges have been extremely rare. Nobody knows how many of those were caused by trigger screw diddling.

[Guest PerazziTM1]

Remington has their rebuttals posted at remington.com

[Mason]

I watch the show as well and got the feeling that it was no big deal. When I first tuned in I was thanking "man those rifles are pure junk." After watching for a while I remimbered that I have both a 700 and a 710 in the next room and I wave never had or been aware of any issues. The longer I watched the show the more it sounded like an anti gun news report. They never did give out any numbers or a percent of rifles that have malfunctioned. I understood that the rifles were fine out of the box and the problems only existed on rifles with owner modified triggers. It sounded to me like the owners were likely to blame in at least some of the reported malfunctions.

[Jonnin]

I agree, the news loves to make it sound as if a gun will get up, walk across the room, point itself at you, and fire. Esp NBC which has become more and more liberal every year since clinton was elected.

I will not say that it cannot happen: anything that is mass produced could have a defect. However, there are thousands upon thousands of these guns out there, and, so far, ONE or TWO of them that we know of that was not modified (at a guess, they did not say!) have had a problem. Since the gun was always pointed in a safe direction, after such an event, simply taking to a gunsmith or a trip back to the factory should clear it right up, no harm done to anything except the owner's nerves.

Its been a while since I saw their "news" show on it, but as I recall it was extremely biased and unscientific. I do not recall that they bought a new 700 out of the box, took it to the range, and filmed it shooting itself.