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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
Ryan

I am guessing you are a gunsmith who went to the Colorado School of Trades, a military gunsmithing school or the one in Ferlach, Austria who changes the extractors on thousands of 700s every year.

If none of those is true, I am guessing you are just a forum expert who has a PHD in BS.

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:
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Actually, now that I read back. There is nothing wrong with the Walker trigger either. The reason so many people get hurt with it is because of: "Customer oriented idiocy" which is brought on by the lack of intelligence.

People insist on setting the trigger below its recommended settings and then proceed to point the muzzle at themselves or someone else (which is not to smart) and then messing around with it and banging it around which causes it to discharge and put a big hole in something, or someone.

The second problem is that people feel they can go for 30 years without cleaning out the trigger and polymerized oil and dirt build up. It gets to the point that when the trigger is pulled, it sticks in the rearward position and when a second round is chambered the sears don't fully catch and it fires on closing. Or, the idiot puts it on safe and then pulls the Trigger which sticks back. When he releases the safe, the gun fires and he kills himself or someone else because he had it pointed that way.

Remington finally said PHUK-Q and started putting in the nice 30 to 40 pound non adjustable lawyer triggers that we see today and Timney is getting rich selling after market triggers.

I'm not super, team-Remington. I'm just sick of people blaming their stupidity on everyone else these days.

OH MY ! Did I just say that?

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Originally posted by RyanB:

Failures in Remington triggers have been observed also in new, clean, unmodified Remingtons. Some SWAT teams leave the bolt handle up instead of using the safety because of this. A local team had an AD on a callout related to a faulty Remington trigger and now most of the local teams use AI AWs.

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
First off, thanks for addressing this.

There is nothing wrong with the 700's extraction if there were Remington would have addressed it 30 years ago, and the Marine Corps M40 sniper rifle would be modified to accept a M16 or Sako extractor.

Many argue, but the 700 extractor is actually a lot more effective than some of the replacements that people have put in over the years. It is a sheering extractor, not a camming extractor like the Sako style. When faced with a stuck case, the 700 extractor will either cut through the rim or it will tear out the rim out the bolt face. Camming extractors will simply slip off. There are good and bad points to either scenario but the 700 is a tough little monster despite its whimpy appearance and low mass.

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Originally posted by Bill Leeper:

Those which have been most problematic have been in magnum bolts where the under cut was not deep enough to allow the extractor to snap over the rim. In this case it would shave brass off the rim.