Warning to everyone with the Remington 770's (Walmart Academy guns)

I bought one of these a few years ago about 6 months before I saw the MSNBC expose of them. I am a lawyer and know a lot of gun experts and gun lawyers. They all said that my gun was fine and not affected by the recall etc. It was a starter gun for my son, and he has killed many deer with it.

This Saturday, when in the stand with him I loaded the gun, as like many of these models it is difficult to do as the damn bold just doesn't slide well even with fresh gun oil. It was dark and I was not sure it picked up the cartridge so I checked and It would not open. As I touched the safety to move it so that I could unbolt the damn thing when off. There was nothing within 2 feet of the trigger. It was about 40 degrees. (Watch you tube and you will understand why this is important.) If this had been my son i would not have believed it. This is the second occurrence with these guns at our little camp in the last 5 years. When I got back in there were several other stories of people having the same occurrence with these guns. Why these damn things are on the market I don't know. They did recall a bunch last year. I am filing a report, etc on this incident.

I understand that Remington are real mfers about this from attorneys that handle these claims. I am going to find out from my buddies what the fix it for this, but please be very very careful with these fricking guns, and I would not let a child touch them.

My son went on to kill a decent 8 pt, with a 260 Ruger btw.



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Recall info:

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MSNBC: Remington Under Fire show

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