How's the Remington 40x trigger ?

I have three 40X triggers all from within the past 10 years and they are outstanding in my opinion. Fully adjustable and extremely repetitively precise. I love the 2 oz one I put on my 22-284, it is unbelievable and safe !!
 
The standard 40X trigger was a Walker trigger but usually had an external weight of pull screw. The 2 Oz. (three lever) trigger is also a Walker trigger and Mike Walker designed the modifications made to the standard trigger to produce the 2 oz. trigger. Many of the 2 oz triggers sold on 40X rifles were made by Hart but were also really just conversions of the standard trigger. In the '70's into the early eighties, it was common for gunsmiths to convert 700 or 40X triggers to 3 lever triggers following Walker's instructions. I know Dennis Sorenson, Nobby Uno, and I did these and I'm sure there were others as well. By the mid-eighties most everyone simply bought triggers from Canjar and, later on, Jewel. I still have a couple of conversions, a couple of Harts, and three or four Canjars. All good triggers.
 
That makes sense to me as I was told that the new 40X triggers were Jewels and not made by Rem........I mentioned that on here a couple years ago and was told I was crazy and didn't know what I was talking about by a Remington expert who obviously knew more about them than I did........

Thank you Mr. Leeper !!!!!!!
 
Leeper said:
The standard 40X trigger was a Walker trigger but usually had an external weight of pull screw. The 2 Oz. (three lever) trigger is also a Walker trigger and Mike Walker designed the modifications made to the standard trigger to produce the 2 oz. trigger. Many of the 2 oz triggers sold on 40X rifles were made by Hart but were also really just conversions of the standard trigger. In the '70's into the early eighties, it was common for gunsmiths to convert 700 or 40X triggers to 3 lever triggers following Walker's instructions. I know Dennis Sorenson, Nobby Uno, and I did these and I'm sure there were others as well. By the mid-eighties most everyone simply bought triggers from Canjar and, later on, Jewel. I still have a couple of conversions, a couple of Harts, and three or four Canjars. All good triggers.
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I remember making maybe a dozen of the 2 ounce conversions (I numbered the housing starting with 1)... Al Mirdoch came into Barotto's in that era with a 40X 2 ounce trigger and said I should take it apart and see what is needed to make a regular 700 trigger into a 2 ounce... I made a jig at that time to hold 700 housings so I could drill the 3rd lever hole consistently in the same place. The ones I made were quite cobbled together but they worked just fine. Made them adjustable so you could make them about 4 to 6 ounces. A bench shooter in Saskatchewan still has a couple of these and is using them I believe.

Remington 700 triggers today get some bad postings but even the worst of the current production are quite easily reworked (by a 'smith') to crisp, safe hunting weights (2.25->3 pounds) for $50 or so. Every bit as good as the replacements costing 3 times or more...
 
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I have a XMP trigger on my 30/40 Krag prone rifle and it is as good as any standard trigger I've used. It is set at 2 pounds even and works very well. Like Dennis, I see no reason to buy an aftermarket trigger for a 700 when the factory triggers can be set up so well. If one wants a 2 oz trigger, it's another story and one has to purchase a trigger for the light pulls.
 
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