Experiences with recent 700s?

Bevelled and a poor fit of firing pin to hole causes primer failure at lower pressures... the primers blow (blank), the firing pin normally doesn't pierce the primer unless it is very pointy. Piercing primers is a misuse of the word...
 
Sure.
Whether it was done on purpose or was a “flaw” is debatable. Like everything.

Edit: Ok my primers were cut by the firing pin hole or the pin or both.
 
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A bevel on the bolt face side is a dumb thing to have. It would act as a gas funnel back into the bolt body creating fouling within that area as well as the action in general with a pierced primer scenario. I've always stripped the bolts on my rifles and given the nose of the firing pin a smooth rounded & polished finish to negate the possibility of pierced primers.

I do this before swapping the firing spring if the indent on the primers seems to shallow fer me preference.
 
I don’t know why anybody would buy a 700 made in the last 10+ years, there are so many better built rifles, Ruger, Tikka, Howa , Model 70, and many others.
 
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Here is a picture of a recent production 'flaw'... the factory chamfered pin hole...

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Well sir that scared the cabbage out of me!
I am not too proud to admit first minute back at the house I checked mine. Looks okay. Appears to be unchamfered.
 
Fear runs deep on this thread. Like the mainstream media, we need something to talk about regardless of whether or not it’s really an issue.
 
bunny said:
I don’t know why anybody would buy a 700 made in the last 10+ years, there are so many better built rifles, Ruger, Tikka, Howa , Model 70, and many others.
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Because not all 700's in the last 10+ years have flaws... the majority are perfectly fine... and a fine one is hard to beat.

Although the value is reduced greatly if it has a bevelled firing pin hole or little initial extraction camming... reduced even more if both problems exist.
 
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In the 90's I bought 13 brand new 700's, every single one of them had issues that needed fixing, failure to extract, failure to feed, bad crowns, triggers that if you tried to adjust them under 6 pounds the rifle would go off when the bolt was closed. I ran into a guy at the range with a new in box rifle that would not group, I had a quick look and noticed the barrel looked like the muzzle was cut off with a chop saw yet it made it through the bluing process and final inspection, when it should not have made it out the factory door. Remington has produced millions of these rifles and there are millions of happy owners out there, but for me my money will be spent on something much better and probably at a lower price, Tikka, or Howa are just two examples.
 
bunny said:
In the 90's I bought 13 brand new 700's, every single one of them had issues that needed fixing, failure to extract, failure to feed, bad crowns, triggers that if you tried to adjust them under 6 pounds the rifle would go off when the bolt was closed. I ran into a guy at the range with a new in box rifle that would not group, I had a quick look and noticed the barrel looked like the muzzle was cut off with a chop saw yet it made it through the bluing process and final inspection, when it should not have made it out the factory door. Remington has produced millions of these rifles and there are millions of happy owners out there, but for me my money will be spent on something much better and probably at a lower price, Tikka, or Howa are just two examples.
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It took 13 bad guns before you stopped buying them? I would have tried a couple more.
 
Yes, I would say I gave the platform an honest try before giving up, I did own one CDL mountain in 25-06 that was fantastic, but my bad luck with the others made me sell it.
 
Leeper and Guntech,

Do you guys see many Tikkas and if so what are their fail points? Besides the bolt stops if they are run uber hard?
 
I don't see much of anything any more as far as worn rifles goes... just putting on a few barrels now and then...
 
Every Tikka I have seen has been a new, or nearly new, rifle. I don't like the plastic but I do like the performance.
 
That picture made me want to look at one of my bolts. I bought it as part of a blueprinted action, used, and the firing pin hole has clearly been drilled out and bushed. Was that above one bushed?
 
I just had this in my shop... I don't know how the slight 'gouge' got in the bolt face but it is of no consequence.

FACTORY BOLT FACE
beveled-firing-pin-hole.jpg


AFTER BUSHING
beveled-hole-fixed.jpg
 
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