My son had a misfire on a Remington 700 ADL chambered in .270 win and I blamed him for playing around but the more I hear about the Remington misfires I wonder if it might be the gun?

I've got a 700 that's 44 years young and have not had that problem. I'm not going to say it's never happened to ther people. But I know you can get an aftermarket 3 position safety for Remington guns. I like those better anyways and it would eliminate your worries and let you hunt with piece of mind.

I have relayed this before but my buddy has a 700BDL 6MM that has not had anything done to the trigger and about 15 years ago his wife pushed the safety off in a shoothouse and shot through the roof. Thanks goodness for having the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Had the firearm cleaned by a gunsmith thinking it may have been dirty. This past year while he was getting the firearm ready for his daughter to use the same thing happened to him on the range. He is so upset that he is going to sell the rifle, he says his daughter's life isn't worth that. I told him to take it to his gunsmith and have a new trigger installed but I don't know what he is going to do. There was definetly was a problem but it seems everyone is in deniel protecting Remington, and by the way I own a Remington 700 too but mine is new after Remington started putting a new trigger in their guns.

happened to my stock, unaltered 700 ADL about ten years after I bought it new. loaned it to a friend and in the pre-dawn dark he closed the bolt on the deer-stand---boom. Then again, and again. bought a trigger, had gunsmith install it, problem fixed.

I never had any idea why it became so touchy, just glad nobody was hurt. Gun bought in 1969, 270.

I've never had an issue with a Remington although I know this could happen with any firearm so I do two things to avoid a serious accident:

1) I never put a round in the chamber unless I intend to shoot something
2) I never point a gun at anything I don't intend to shoot.

All firearms are mechanical devices that could and occasionally do malfunction at any time. I have had a a Mauser action fire when taking off the safety once. A gunsmith had set that trigger to an ultra-light target trigger setting and I had to raise the pull weight a few ounces to avoid it. I also had it happen on my High Standard target pistol with a 2 ounce pull weight until I installed a lighter trigger.

I have encountered trigger issues several times as I adjust any trigger near its minimum setting. I test them a lot when adjusting to ensure that the trigger setting doesn't cause problems with safety on/off, severe bolt speed or heavy bumps.

Say what you want WAM, but i witnessed it once, and it happened a second time two years later. At the time of the first one we ignorantly blamed it on the ammo and thought little about it. By the second time the story and lawsuits were widely publicized (and dismissed by most of us as anti-gun propaganda) and we began to rethink it. Again, in these two cases the muzzle was pointed in a safe direction, thankfully. Remington has inspected the firearm and offered to replace the trigger system for a discounted(?)price. Something fishy

To some people, seeing is believing. It has to strike home.
To others, a word to the wise is sufficient.
One more horror story: I read about a woman who was pointing her Remington at an empty horse trailer when it discharged, killing her son who, unknown to her, was sitting on the far side of the trailer.

Incidentally, I was worried about this. I bought my 700 ADL .30-06 about 8 years ago.

With dummy rounds loaded, I could not replicate this even whacking it with a rubber mallet.

There is a recall on some older Remington Model 700's because there is a chance of them firing as the safety is pushed forward into the "off" position. Go to Remington.com and look at the recalls. I believe they will pay the cost of shipping and make the improvement repair for free.

Jeff, the gun i mention(my Dads) doesn't take a wack or jolt, a touch of the bolt after the hangfire and it went off, on two seperat occassions.

With all due respect WAM i disagree. A lot of brand loyalty and distrust of the mainstream media (I possess a great deal of the latter) has too many people dismissing this as a conspiracy, propaganda or the work of amateur gunsmiths or rusty dirty guns. I'm 100% sure that is not always the case. Those factors may have played a part in some of the incidents, but not all. "It hasn't happened to me(yet) so it's false" is a piss-poor way to deal with this kind of information.

As I said before I own a Remington 700CDL but it was suppposedly made after the trigger design was changed by Remington. If nothing was wrong why did they change the trigger design ? I have been a staunch supporter of Remington all my life but they goofed up on this one and I know of one that has fired twice upon taking the safety off. Everyone can dismiss this if they want too but as Steve182 says this advice should be heeded. Noone on here wants a fellow poster to have to bury someone he loves or his family to bury him. Dimissing the problem won't make it go away. As I said before the firearm I am talking about had never had the trigger adjusted and was squeaky clean.

The Remington trigger issue is real, but overblown. They wouldn't be offering a fix and making a big stink on their own website if it was just nothing. The other companies would be having the same problem if it was just some media attack. I have a 600 too. The trigger is funky. Great for accurate shooting bad for safety. It's never been tinkered with.

Sarge01 - DO NOT let your buddy sell the gun as is. He knows that there is a problem with the gun. If he sells it to someone, and there is an accident relating to the known problem, he may find himself up the proverbial creek (legally speaking). Get if fixed, live with it or destroy it. Selling a dangerous item to someone else is a BAD IDEA.

(Just trying to help out here)