my rifle miss fired this year
 

I have a 25-06 remington rifle. I have had nothing but good luck with this gun up untill this season. Opening morning walking out to my blind i have bullets in my gun but not one in the chamber. I put one in the chamber as soon as i get into the blind. Anyways as i slid the bolt back on the gun and pushed it forward which put a shell into the chamber it fired. I didnt have a finger on the trigger. I clean my guns quite often. Give me some of your thoughts on why this would happen.
-Thanks

Did you reload another round after that? What happened?

When you open the bolt, can you see the firing pin?

yes i loaded another shell in after that and its fine. The firing pin is fine. I shot the gun several times after that and it shot well. I have no idea why it did that.

I almost feel like this is spam to make Remmy look bad, but you have enough in your sig that I almost gotta believe ya.... Unfortunately this has been a reported problem. Although not proven. Remington says its from bad cleaning or basement gunsmiths messing around. Look on remingtons website, they have a response to this somewhere. Maybe someone here still has it saved. I would contact remington though if I were you.
-Jake

Sounds like a loose nut.....

I'm probably wrong but wasn't there a recall for this problem some time back?

something about a shim that wasnt spec right and the gun can fire on safe?

I had the same thing happen several years ago with a remington 270 and
I got rid of it as I no longer trusted it and it was not safe at all.

I don't believe you can work the bolt when the rifle is on safe. That's the catch. To unload the chamber, you need to switch the safety to the fire position.

Sounds like this hunter was smart and responsible and had his rifle pointed in a safe direction so nobody got hurt.

I have a Remington 700 and have never had a problem. However, I really do prefer a 3 position safety that allows working the bolt when the gun is on safe. My Savage is like that.

Remington 700's have had a similar issue years back. I have a late 1970's vintage Rem. 700 in 300 Win. mag that misfired twice. First time I thought maybe it was my doing. I had a nice buck in the scope. Flipped the safety from "on" to "off" ... the gun fired. It was a cold morning. I had gloves on. So I figured I "fat fingered" the trigger. Same thing happend later in that season. I had been still hunting, as I was scouting for a place to set my climbing stand. I found the tree .... pushed the safety "off" to unload the rifle, preparing to climb up then lift my rifle on a rope. It fired. Scared the pee out of me. Gunsmith told me of the recall .... which I had missed ... and the fix was simple. Could be something similar going on with your rifle. In any event, if I were you, I'd get it to a good gunsmith and get that flaw repaired !!!