Lighter Trigger on 700 SPS

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Hey guys,

I was at the range Friday and fired about 80 rounds of .223 out of my Remington 700 SPS, I had to zero the scope at first so by the end I was shooting 1 1/4" to 1 3/8" groupings with five rounds at 110 years. I know this is pretty crappy groupings and I'd love to improve on it. I noticed that the trigger is pretty hard on my rifle and its stock. I'm wondering what pull weight I should be looking for and if anyone can recommend one I guess. I'll have it installed by my gunsmith but I'm looking for ideas...

Cheers,

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Well a couple of options. You can bring it to a smith and pay $40-75 to clean it up or you could buy a Shilen trigger for $129 and have a trigger that actually works well for both paper shooting and hunting. If you decide to sell rifle, put the original trigger on it and sell it....keep the Shilen for another rifle and or sell it to recoup some of your $$$.

Generally speaking tuning a trigger by a smith (and we do this to) is money you will not recover!
 
Thx for the info. I don't much care about recovering cost as I don't plan on selling this rifle. So I'm guessing that the Shilen trigger is the way to go for a much lighter pull or could a gunsmith achieve this by working on it?
 
Try and clean barrel with Hoppes and soft copper brush after 20 or so shots max and take a look at a Jewell trigger HVR
 
I have found that most Remington Factory triggers can be tuned down nicely to just over two pounds. However, after about a dozen, I've just received my first one that really sucks!

Not wanting to hi-jack the tread to much but, is a Jewell really worth over twice the price of a Shilen? I want the safety and bolt release.
 
Exercitus:

I've tuned all my Remington 700 triggers down to 3 lbs and I've never regretted that move.

My M700 SPS shoots into an inch with handloaded Hornady VMax 50 gr. bullets and 23.5 gr of WC735 a bulk surplus ball powder from Higginson Powders in the Ottawa area.

This is my groundhog gitter, dedicated to killing earthpigs.

Enjoy your M700, it will get you many years of pleasure.
 
Thanks to everyone for the info. I was doing a bit of research and found that the stock trigger pull is about 9~10 pounds. Does this sound right? I'm thinking between 2 to 3 pounds would be nice.
 
The shilen trigger is nice and an improvement on the Remington. The Jewell trigger, well they are first rate and after having installed many of them, I have never seen someone say, please put the Remington trigger back on. In fact its usually, please install another on my other Remingtons. Jewell is second to none.
 
So... Called my local gunsmith this morning and asked if he would lighten the trigger, no go... For liability he said?

Guess I'm doing myself with a case of beer.
 
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