Way back in the 1980’s a friend brought his M700 in 7mm mag over to my place telling me “there’s something wrong with the trigger.” I took it outside, aimed it in a safe direction, loaded the chamber, and activated the trigger. Nothing happened. I held it to my shoulder for a few more seconds and BOOM! I told him don’t even load the gun - take it to a smith and have it repaired. Since then I’ve never tried to fire another M700. All my bolt actions are Rugers and I’ve never had an issue with any of them.
When Remington began balking on this years ago, it was all I needed to go looking for equal and better rifles. I lucked onto a Ruger M77 UltraLite “Mountain Rifle” and it groups better than I can shoot and you never have to wonder about the action.