Gre-tan or similar 700 cocking pieces in Canada?

Just the cocking piece....Brownells has it but sold out.
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I have and have used gretan and ptg - and prefer the factory Remington part to either. I've ordered directly from both companies without issue, but if you're set on a Canadian distributor - Gary Eakin may have some of the ptg's in stock.
 
double gun said:
I have and have used gretan and ptg - and prefer the factory Remington part to either. I've ordered directly from both companies without issue, but if you're set on a Canadian distributor - Gary Eakin may have some of the ptg's in stock.
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Maybe I'll try Gravels for Rem OEM then...
Not really looking for an upgrade, just something in spec, this one is causing some grief tripping the sear occasionally when closing the bolt. Had the local smith play with it a bit, and all he could do was set the Timney trigger at 6lbs with a lot of sear engagement to get it to stop. I can't think of anything else that could cause it...had the same trigger in another gun for years, set light, with no issue.
 
Sure sounds like a trigger/sear setup issue - but it's strange if your smith had a look at it and couldn't find fault in a trigger that worked for years. Interesting indeed.
 
double gun said:
Sure sounds like a trigger/sear setup issue - but it's strange if your smith had a look at it and couldn't find fault in a trigger that worked for years. Interesting indeed.
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When I first put it in this gun and did the safety checks, it would do it with slightly hard bolt closure. I increased sear engagement to 1/8" or a bit more and it stopped. I shot 100+ rounds with no issues.
Smith was doing some other work on it and called to say he could slam fire it, so I said set it so it doesn't do that and it came back at 6lbs which isn't ideal for a bench/range gun lol. I put a 2nd long term functioning Timney in and it did the same things.
Now, he showed me how hard he was slamming it and it was well beyond normal operation...well beyond violent operation.
He's probably being overly cautious, but I think the cocking piece is the issue (quite rounded in appearance compared to my other 700's) and 2 Timneys had the same issues. It currently has a Xmark recall unit in it that shockingly adjusted down to something close to acceptable.
I'd like to try a new cocking piece with the Timney first as it's the cheapest option to explore right now.
 
How important is the shape of that type of cocking peice? I got a gretan one that looks like crap and is only vaguely the same shape as a remington one and also a crappy remington one with ridges on the bottom that didnt hurt till i changed the trigger and the ridges pushed down so hard it was hard to turn the bolt so i had to stone it flat. I notice the 90 degree ones on other guns are machined.
 
Ideally the 2 angles (cocking piece/sear) would make full contact the entire length so force from the firing pin spring is applied evenly. Probably little chance of that on a mass production rifle like this.
 
Just an update, got a Gretan firing pin assembly as I couldn't find just the cocking piece anywhere in stock. I swapped the bolt shroud as it was matte on the gun and satin on the Gretan (spring compressor is a handy tool).
Reinstalled the Timney and my problem is cured, I couldn't get it to slam fire with minimal sear engagement and no trigger spring pressure after 100+ hard cycles.
Readjusted a bit, now it's light and safe and back in business.
I suspect the 700 oem cocking piece was slipping over the sear, I could see the sear engagement tab on the Rem was shorter/skinnier then the Gretan without taking any measurements when comparing the 2 side by side.
 
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