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Offline safetysheriff

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Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« on: September 18, 2007, 03:55:35 PM »
hello,

i posted this on the Remington forum, but thought i'd try it here as well.   we put a Wolff trigger spring into my buddy's Model 700 Classic in .30-06.    we re-set the trigger stop, pull weight adjustment, and sear engagement.    my buddy said the safety had been kind of sticky or difficult for a while but it quit working when he took the rifle home to w. va.   he couldn't get the safety to release even when the action was removed from the stock and the bolt was taken out of it.

anybody have any good ideas as to why this thing has gone awry?   any they would share with me before i get to see the rifle this coming Friday?

many thanks,

ss'


ps:   i'd rather work on a Remington on the rare occassion when they need it, than try to shoot a SSSSSSsaaaaa'............... :o          no offense; just nipping it all in the bud!   
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2007, 04:00:31 PM »
just do a normal trigger job again and see if you can't try to fix it. and take it and make sure the spring is still inline and nothing is blocking it from functioning. if that doesn't work then it probably will need to go to a gunsmith
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2007, 10:15:37 PM »
Hmmmm,


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i'd rather work on a Remington on the rare occassion when they need it, than try to shoot a SSSSSSsaaaaa'...............          no offense; just nipping it all in the bud!    
 

    Well in the same vane ... if he had brought a decent rifle in the first place it would not have required a replacement trigger just to get a decent pull and so the problem your having would not have occured!
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2007, 10:55:15 AM »
the remingtons trigger will go down to 24ounces. i have had no trouble adjusting mine without replacing the spring. some like lighter triggers then it will go and that calls for a new spring, as far as the gun goes he has a older remington 700. and savage triggers suck. they put accu trigger to cover up how bad they are. all my 700 triggers are set to 3lbs and are way smoother than any savage trigger the triggers on all remingtons are easy to adjust
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2007, 11:06:04 PM »
 ;D Sorry could not resist. By the way I don't have any Savage guns either, no Remingtons either. Cannot really and truthfully comment on the Accutrigger as I have never tried one. In fact thinking on it apart from a Savage made No4 Enfield I have never fired a Savage gun. tried a Remington VSS in .223 a friend had, sure it was fairly accurate but it just felt darned awful. His Winchester Model 70 Varmint in .308 was far more accurate and felt better too.
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2007, 01:22:17 AM »
ok....so what about the part of the safety not releasing on the firearm?         i guess you guys want to talk about other things.
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2007, 03:12:19 AM »
They are prolly like me and have no clue. Ask on Gunsmithing Forum if you really want an answer.
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2007, 09:08:06 AM »
Maybe a bent part or gummed up?Was it sticky or difficult before the spring replacment?I'd give it a good cleaning and try it out of the stock to get it to work.
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2007, 11:30:59 AM »
did you try in what i said in my orginal post? thats all i can think to tell you to do
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Re: Trigger's Safety Won't Release on Model 700
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2007, 12:58:13 PM »
I can't visualize what you're saying.  Does the safety lever move back and forth but the gun doesn't move from safety?

All I can think to tell you is to undo all the changes that you have done, looking at them closely as you undo them, and redo them. 
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