[verum ago]

I couldn't find this on FR for some reason, at least not under it's title and using a Google search (albeit a hasty one, because I'm in a hurry). Even if it was posted a week ago, I thought it might be a timely repost, given that this thing "premiers" tomorrow.

This special runs tomorrow. I might watch it out of morbid curiosity, but it just reeks of "hatchet job," and probably not just on Remington but firearms in general.

The obnoxious caps in the title and excerpt are CNBC's emphasis, not mine. I guess they're a bit worked up...

[Littlejon]

Hatchet piece for sure. I own 2 model 700’s and love them both. The problem they are referring to are in the older model (pre-1980, IIRC) trigger mechanisms in which you had to flip the safety to “fire” before opening the bolt. One of mine, a 30-06 made in 1976, had this type of trigger. My .270 was made severl years later and doesn’t have the old trigger mechanism and you can open the chamber with the safety still on.

Anyway, they are right, those older models CAN fire accidentally, but Remington is also right in that it happens in poorly maintained or modified instances. I know personally because I never had a minute’s problem from mine until I adjusted the trigger pull. Mine was a bit tighter than I liked, so I adjusted it and it seemed to work fine. Then after getting out of a deer stand one evening, I went to unload it and as soon as I flipped the safety to “fire”, it went off. Luckily for me I had it pointed away from my buddy and anything else and I had the butt end propped on my leg, which absorbed all of the kickback.

Remington issued a recall on the trigger mechanism and offered to replace any pre-1980 triggers for free. All you had to do is pay for shipping. I did this, paid $25 to ship it back and got it back from them with a new trigger. Shoots like a champ and I have had NO problems since.

[kbennkc]

Sounds like another campaign by products liability lawyers to enlist the aid of media propagandists to attain that which they could not win, with proof in court. No product is always perfectly made, no gun is safe while in human hands, but I have never seen a Remington Model 700 malfunction that had not been altered or over pressured.

[surfer]

The 700 is outstanding...what a bunch of crap!

[bigbob]

The good news is, it’s on CNBC therefore no one will see it.

[oh8eleven]

CNBC PRESENTS ...
NBC has tried this crap before ... Crash Dummies:

"NBC might as well have been the Nader Broadcasting Corporation on November 17. For its Dateline NBC segment on G.M. pickups, the network hired a trial lawyers' advocacy group to crash the trucks.
Testers overfilled one truck's gas tank, used a nonstandard gas cap that popped off on impact, and strapped remote-controlled model-rocket engines to the truck's frame to guarantee a fire."

F NBC.

[Still Thinking]

Well, if they wanted a rifle that doesn't do that kind of stuff, they should have bought a Model 70 (pre '64, preferably). ;-)

[ducking and running while donning flame retardant suit]

[gundog]

I remember years ago, all the gun mags were advertising that Remington would install a 3 position safety for free.