Originally Posted by
HatchieLuvr
ANYTHING mfgrd for over half a century and with nearly 8M produced, you CAN'T expect a 100% perfectly, flawless safety record... it's IMPOSSIBLE! Sure it's guns and lives but we're still talking about a mfgrd piece of metal and the American public for over 50yrs... I've had some of my 700s for 30yrs, never the first bit of problem. I just can't buy into something being built THAT long and with 8M produced yet somehow from day one we are supposed to believe that there's an inherent design flaw? A design flaw in 8M units shows up MUCH more than even a few thousand over half a century +...
You need to look at things more than you obviously have before you make any more baseless statements! Mike Walker, the Remington engineer that designed the trigger, told them it needed to be changed shortly after they went into production in the late 40s and even though it would have only cost 5 1/2 cents per rifle the company documents introduced in court showed they said no. He actually lost his pension a few years ago when he came out publicly in the media and stated that, which violated a court order that he not say anything about the defect. He didn't give a rip, as he was in his late 90s and just died last year at the age of 101. Say anything else you want, but when the inventor of the product itself says it has a tendency to cause misfires and should be fixed he should have been listened to. I was just on another hunting website that I can't name due to site rules here, but one after another of the members there came on a thread discussing this and said it had either happened to them or a friend. The number of misfires are in the many thousands (at least 20,000 or more), so it's not just a minor situation that you seem to want to slough off. The misfire can't be replicated just like RR stated and that's the scary thing with this situation because you never know when it will happen. Thank God most of the thousands of people that have had misfires have had them pointed in a safe direction, but that doesn't relieve Remington from putting out a defective product.