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What was the rifle that malfunctioned? Why did it malfunction?
Remington based rifle in the truck cold, rode in truck for 1.5 hours, heated up and sweated
a bit, taken outside in cold, very humid weather, light frost accumulates. Light strike on primer- from what I saw of it of 25% to 50% depth of strike on the primer, then rifle functioned fine. That little bit of frost from being cold/got/cold will cause the trigger to not work or get a click that clears the tiny bit of frost, and/or clear the firing pin of the same.
It is what is consistently seen with Remington R700 based triggers and actions. People claim nonstop it doesn’t happen, and yet every single year it happens to people in front of me that swore beforehand it wasn’t a real thing. Ryan has sat beside me on three separate occasions with someone saying that R700 triggers and actions are just as reliable as any other and that it has never happened to them, for it to happen the very first time they go to shoot an animal in front of us. Either people don’t actually hunt in “weather” that much, or they have selective memory.