Remington 700 triggers - how much work needed?

[lilabner]

What does it take to get a creep free pull of 3 lbs?

[Zachary]

3 pounds is a good number - and that's exactly what pull most of my Remington's have.

As for the work that is involved, I really can't tell you.  What I can tell you is that I send my rifles to a competent gun smith to do the trigger job - which not only adjusts the pull weight, but also takes out the creep as well.  There is some grinding involved and the cost is usually no more than $50.  To me,  it's worth it because the trigger is a critical part of the safety of the rifle.

I know that several people adjust their own triggers on their rifles. While I myself do it on my Tikkas and Sakos (which is essentially idiot proof and doesn't require anything other than just turning a screw to adjust the pull weight) I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself on a remington or winchester.

Zachary

[mountainview]

Ab,

A trip to the gunsmith worked wonders on my old 700ADL, cost was 50 dollars and was well worth it. However, I find myself turning more and more to my Savage equipped with the Accutrigger. It has been excellent and never needed a trip to the gunsmith to adjust pull weight. The resulting 50 dollar savings went into a good scope mount/rings.

Safe shooting.

[Ramrod]

Anyone competent enough to own a rifle should be capable of adjusting a Remington trigger. If you want to give a gunsmith $50. bucks that's your choice. Heck, I've even heard that some folks don't mount their own scopes! Can you imagine paying for that too?
Here's a link to some popular triggers.
http://www.clcweb.net/Shooting/Rifle_Trigger_Adjustments/rifle_trigger_adjustments.html
And one for just the Remington.
http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/RemingtonTriggers.asp

[Judson]

I guess I work too cheep I usually do the Remington 700 triggers for 35 to 40 dollars.     The 700 trigger is not too bad and for the most part changing the spring and adjustment is all that is required.     However check to be sure it functions right is you screw up the adjustments you can have a dangerous situation!!!

[gunnut69]

I'm with you Judson!  I usually charge $25-30 for the Remington or the Winchester.  The Remington is screwdriver adjustable and the Winchester does require a wrench of some type and both may require respringing but still!! $50?? Also just as an aside there should NOT be any grinding involved in altering a Remington trigger... Actually Grinding is poor practice for working on ANY trigger.. perhaps stoning but grinding will get you in trouble..deep.