[Rapier]

The major problem with the subject Remington trigger is as stated, anyone with a small screwdriver can adjust it and most of the adjustment instructions floating around fail in one major regard........ Never reset a Remington trigger without using Locktite on all of the adjustment screws. Do not get Locktite inside the trigger and Locktite outside does not help anything. So start the screw then put a drop in the middle of the screw, as you set the screws, then allow the locktite to dry once a safe setting is achieved. Test the safety and slam the bolt home at least a dozen times.

The rub is that once the seal - glue as used by the factory is broken, the adjustment screws have a tendancy to "walk" with use, especially with heavy use, like on a match gun, unless the screws are set. If you are lucky the firing pin will only follow the bolt when out of adjustment. But sometimes the firing pin hangs for a moment and will fire just as the bolt closes, which is not good at all and is very dangersous.

I have seen Remingtons do this many, many times over the years and every single time it was due to a faulty adjustment job or no sealant was used on the adjustment screws.

I have served as the gun inspector at several world championship shooting events. My test for a Remington was to slam the bolt home, if it did not fire, I then rapped the butt on a mouse pad, on the table. If it still did not fire, it passed inspection. The Remington always got two tests, not because they were unsafe, but because they could be made unsafe by folks that had no idea of how a Remington could go from good to bad so quickly if improperly set up.

As a match director I have also had to order Remington shooters off the firing line when their gun started malfunctioning during a match. Again, every single instance was due to the trigger not being properly adjusted by an individual.

Remington designed the triggers at a time when everyone was expected to know something about the gun they owned and most people could maintain their guns in a proper way. Today 99% of the gun owners can't even clean a gun right.

I have no idea of how many custom Remingtons I have built over the years, but it is a good number. I use the factory triggers for hunting guns to this day, reset to 3 to 3.25 pounds with Locktite.
Ed