My Tikka T3 discharged while unloading it during a recent deer hunt. The bolt was half way back when it fired. Tikka wants to see the rifle, so I'll be shipping it off to them shortly. Has anybody heard of any similar issues with Tikka rifles?
The bolt was half way back when it fired.
The Rem700 issue was that the striker/firing pin could be released while the bolt was closed (AD) simply by taking the safety off - the firing pin/striker could slip off the sear and have only the safety holding it back, so that releasing the safety would release the striker/firing pin. At no point did the Rem700 fire out of battery; it went BOOM when it wasn't supposed to while the gun was in battery.Sounds like the Remington 700 trigger issue to me Joe public
...Are you sure it wasn't a hang fire?.
I'm with Grumulkin, I just don't see any other way.
Correct answer. About the same here. See first photo, post #15. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=572186the cocking mechanism slipped off of the detent on the bolt and released the firing pin,
When we removed the bolt from the rifle, the cocking mechanism was turned 90 degrees and the firing pin was protruding from the face of the bolt.
It seems to me that the cocking mechanism slipped off of the detent on the bolt and released the firing pin, but I have no idea how or why that would happen.