Remington 597

[dk17hmr]

My dad just picked up one of these for cheap. I shot it yesterday just to see if it functions, ran fine, but the trigger is awful. Is there a "20 minute" trigger job for these? Dont want to spend any money on it. I read you can get a different hammer for it and that will help but its $35. I havent seen anything about polishing or spring work so I figured I would ask here.

[Four Fingers of Death]

Ugly looking sucker but with the big R on it, no doubt it will be a good reliable unit. Fire off a few hundred before you get too excited, it may settle down a bit.

[dk17hmr]

Took this little rifle to the range with us today. I mounted a Bushnell 4x on it. At 50 yards, with the crappy trigger, I shot a 10 shot group into about 1". At 25 yards if stacks bullets on top of each other. This is just shooting the Federal bulk pack ammo.

Not to bad, we are taking it with us next week to Montana to shoot p-dogs. Maybe after a few days on the p-dog flat that trigger will lighten up.

[Jack Stanley]

I ran several hundred through one I had but since the magnum ammo was so expensive . I left the rifle with a friend who fools with that sort of thing . A few weeks later the rifle came back with a trigger that breaks clean and not to heavy and like you said ...... it will stack bullets on top of each other .


Other than the ugly trigger and hokey magazine it's a nice rifle . To bad they didn't make a nice mag and at least have a better trigger .

Jack