Over the years since 1968, I have purchased seven Remington model 700's, in different calibers, for hunting as well as range shooting with them. I gave three of these as gifts to my son and grandsons. We had two of these rifles that would fire when the safety was released, and one when the bolt was closed on a live round it would fire. These mishaps did not happen all the time, but on enough occasions that could not be ignored. Being a gunsmith myself, and not wanting to send these rifles back to Remington, I did the necessary work myself to make these rifles work. With each rifle also, I replaced the factory triggers, with new ones from another well known trigger manufacturer. I like my model 700's, and other wise have been well satisfied with using them. I have heard some compalints the last few years about quality control, and accuracy problems from experienced hunters and shooters I am aquainted with. These are first hand stories, and I have seen and handled those problem 700's too. Some gun shop owners I know in my state, have told me of problems over recent years with customers 700's. And one Wal-Mart store manager I know told of some real serious problems of some 700's that were sold there. With the increase of hunters and shooters buying foriegn made quality rifles now, I think the quality is being restored at Remington. The new model 700 CL is a good example.