Remington 700 - How to quite the Loud Safety

[condoor]

So I'm looking for a gun to hunt deer with in CO. I hunted several years ago with a lever action marlin in AL. Most of the shots where I hunted were under 100, with many under 50 yards and being quiet was critical (which I could do with the marlin)

I've found a good deal on a Remington 700, but the safety makes a loud click when you disengage it, and I'm worried that it would spook a deer inside of 50 yards. Has anyone else had an issue with this? Is there anyway to quiet that down some?

thx-c

 

[3pairs12]

I know what you mean as I hunt in Texas with a 700. My safety is also pretty loud. I have found when I guide the safety the entire way with my thumb while applying a little pressure at the same time it softens the CLICK quit a bit.

 

[condoor]

So I'm not crazy!!

Yeah I'm feeling pretty anal - $325 for a nib 700, but I'm actually leaning toward the stevens or savage because I can manuever their safetys more quietly than the 700s. I'll swing by and play with the 700 safety some more and see if I can quiet it down some with the method you suggested.

 

[andyjason]

i have an older, early 80's 700, and the safty is only loud when i put it on safe.

 

[TexAg]

you just ease it forward with your thumb and forefinger, that's what I do with my model seven.

 

[BsChoy]

+1 texag...ease it forward

 

[mljdeckard]

Had I the time and the inclination, I could pull one of mine out of the stock, and look at it as I played with the safety until I could see what surface it clicks against, and talk to an old-timer gunsmith friend of mine to see how to get some rubber on that point of impact.

As they are now, I suppose me and my dad just ride them forward.

 

[Strongbad]

It's a flat tab of metal flipping back and forth over a metal ball in a recess on the trigger housing. Anything you could do to quiet it down would probably affect the function of the safety iteself. When it clicks it's the tab or metal piece flipping back and forth over the ball that is making the noise.

Your best bet is to just pinch it as others have mentioned, and easy it forward.

 

[birdbustr]

Another option is to put a dab of clear epoxy forward of the safety. The epoxy is not as hard as metal and softens the sound. To be sure that the epoxy doesn't get on anything that needs to move I would remove the stock from the rest of the rifle to apply. The thumb/index finger works too.

 

[Benelli Shooter]

I had this question a year ago. It is a simple solution. Put your right thumb completely on top of the safety. The top of the safety will be in the middle of the pad on your thumb. Move it forward gently. It is fast and quiet and does not interrupt your grip on the gun.

Most people just push it forward. Then, you get the click.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I've never noticed that on mine and never spooked a deer by moving it to fire, but then again I don't "flick" it, I do just like Benelli said.

 

[Andrewsky]

Rem 700 safeties are pretty quiet compared to my M1A's.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Buy a Winchester Model 70 -- their safties are silent.

 

[RevolverMan567]

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[Grizzly Adams]

Benelli Shooter has the immediate solution. After the hunting season take the gun out of the stock, get some fine jewelers rouge, put it between the ball and the metal with the detent and slide the safety back and forth. It will smooth the edge where ball falls into the detent. Be careful not to remove to much and make the gun unsafe.

 

[condoor]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the advice, but I ended up buying a Savage 110 instead of the Remi. I was acutally able to manipulate the remi safety quietly using a couple of the methods mentioned here, but I just liked the Savage better all around.

-c