Winchester XPR Rifle Recall
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 11 months ago
In October 2015, Winchester issued a recall and important safety notice for Winchester XPR rifles.
XPR rifles have the potential to fire an unintended round when the safety switch is manipulated. During continuous product testing, Winchester found that moving the safety switch on the XPR rifle “may cause movement in the trigger system that could result in unintended firing of certain XPR rifles.”
As such, Winchester is recalling all XPR rifles. Winchester is replacing certain trigger group parts in all Winchester XPR rifles free. Winchester requests all owners of XPR rifles send their rifles for retrofitting.
This is the right way to do it, the responsible and ethical way. If you find a problem, recall it and fix it. Unlike what Remington did with the Model 700 Walker Fire Control.
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On December 14, 2015 at 5:03 pm, Sandydog said:
Although we should heartily applaud Winchester’s wholesome response to the XPR’s safety problem, it does come on the heels of their recall of the SXP 3 1/2″ shotguns that will slam-fire on breech closure, safety on. This serves to tells us that Winchester is rushing new firearm designs into production and sale too quickly.
Perhaps they should go back and take a hard look at the old Winchester Model 70 override triggers that were known to be the pinnacle of function and safety, copied under license by the best makers of Europe (along with the beloved 3-position, striker-locking safety), or the mechanism on the Model 12 shotgun that saw almost two million built, over 51 years of production, with its ‘steel-on-steel-on-steel’ safety design.