10 Truths About Your Remington 700 Most Owners Never Know

📖 Get The Old Gun Hand, fifty years at the gunsmith's bench, written down: https://ivansjournal.com Go and look at the Remington 700 in your safe. If it is like most, it came from an uncle, a deer camp, or a used rack, and nobody has looked at the trigger since. A settlement once covered roughly seven and a half million Remington firearms, the 700 among them. By early 2017, about twenty-two thousand claims had been filed. That rifle is one of the best actions ever mass-produced, and in most houses it is the gun people know the least about. So nobody writes in about it, here is where I stand. I have owned 700s from different eras, and for years I treated them like the same rifle with different wood. They are not. A 700 built in 1965 and one coming out of the Georgia factory today can look nearly identical and behave differently in how you unload it and what you should check before you carry it into the woods again. And the history taught me more than any manual did. The bloodline started in 1948 as a cost-cutting project by a Remington engineer named Merle "Mike" Walker, a serious benchrest shooter. The Model 721 and 722 sold for seventy-five dollars, about thirty less than a Winchester Model 70. Built cheap on purpose, and accurate almost as a side effect of one man's obsession. What we go through: Why the 700 began life as a budget rifle ADL, BDL, and why the letters on the floorplate do not tell you which generation you own What "three rings of steel" really means, and why it leaves room for only a small extractor The brazed bolt handle, and why a stuck case is a gunsmith problem and not a mallet problem The M40 and M24, and why your SPS is not a sniper rifle How the aftermarket turned the 700 footprint into an industry standard, and why upgrades are not an investment Ilion to LaGrange, Georgia, the 2024 factory closure, and what your rollmark tells you The pre-1982 bolt lock and why it changes how you unload an ADL The X-Mark Pro trigger recall covering more than 1.3 million rifles made from 2006 to 2014 The Walker trigger, the class action settlement, and the 721, 722, Model Seven and other guns it covered Said plainly on safety: keep the muzzle in a safe direction any time the safety moves, on every rifle, not just Remingtons. Do not adjust a trigger yourself. If your 700 falls in the X-Mark Pro window or still has its original trigger and has never been looked at, give RemArms your serial number and have a qualified gunsmith inspect it. Do not assume an old free retrofit program is still open. There is no scare story in any of this. Millions of these rifles have been carried for decades without a problem. A design can work for most people most of the time and still have failure cases that matter. Familiar is not the same as understood. The lessons I learned at the bench, the slow way, are in my book at ivansjournal.com. Tonight, take your 700 out of the safe. Find the rollmark, work out roughly what year it was built, and check whether anybody has ever looked at that trigger. Tell me in the comments what year your 700 is. And tell me this: has anybody ever looked at that trigger? #Remington700 #Remington #BoltActionRifle #HuntingRifle #RifleSafety #XMarkPro #WalkerTrigger #M40 #M24 #RemArms #GunHistory #DeerHunting #Gunsmithing #FirearmsSafety