Remington 700 light strike

[ar15barrels]

If the barrrelled action has a problem outside of the stock, you might not have enough overtravel in the trigger to keep the cocking piece from dragging after release.
If adjusting o overtravel has no effect, the sear relief may be too tall for the cocking piece.

Any chance the stock is an ADL setup and the triggerguard screw is lifting the bolt in the receiver?
If it’s only occurring in the stock, look for a bolt handle dragging in the stock to be keeping the bolt from fully closing and the cocking piece dragging on the bolt body.

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

[LynnJr]

When the cocking piece drags most people look at the sides.
In your situation I would look at the bottom.
When you pull the trigger the sear drops down and releases the cocking piece. It is designed to ride over the top of the sear but if the sear sits to high it will drag.
This problem usually shows up when shooting reloads because reloaders will cut the primer pockets to deep or bump the shoulder too far.

[boyguan]

Email timney. I was having this issue and they said you need to replace this part and they know of the issue. I haven’t done it yet but I don’t feel comfortable changing a part in a trigger and will call them and see if I can return it and have them do it.

I have the timney 2 stage trigger

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

When the cocking piece drags most people look at the sides.
In your situation I would look at the bottom.
When you pull the trigger the sear drops down and releases the cocking piece. It is designed to ride over the top of the sear but if the sear sits to high it will drag.
This problem usually shows up when shooting reloads because reloaders will cut the primer pockets to deep or bump the shoulder too far.

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

Mine is the 517 but I will keep this in mind. I have 517s in two other rifles that shoot fine so I may swap them when I head out. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

Just got home from the range. Rifle shot great. Thank you guys for all of the advice, to be honest besides the burrs I had found and high spots from someone overzelous when pushing the pin into the cocking piece I am thinking that was it all along. Making the firing pin tool and really getting the inside of the bolt clean made a huge difference. I did remove and re install the trigger a couple times, Really cleaning up everything and making sure nothing had too much oil on it. Had a great day at the range so much so that I didnt even shoot all of the rifles I took. That in itself is a first for me.

[Gunsrruss]

Working good

Just got home from the range. Rifle shot great. Thank you guys for all of the advice, to be honest besides the burrs I had found and high spots from someone overzelous when pushing the pin into the cocking piece I am thinking that was it all along. Making the firing pin tool and really getting the inside of the bolt clean made a huge difference. I did remove and re install the trigger a couple times, Really cleaning up everything and making sure nothing had too much oil on it. Had a great day at the range so much so that I didnt even shoot all of the rifles I took. That in itself is a first for me.

Isn't it wonderful when stuff works the way it was intended. Life is so grand. Happy days

[Bullets&Whitewalls]

Isn't it wonderful when stuff works the way it was intended. Life is so grand. Happy days

Yes. It truly is.