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Trigger job for a Ruger M77 MKII
28 July 2004, 12:30
RiflemanZTrigger job for a Ruger M77 MKII
Anyone do a trigger job on their ruger? My trigger feels like i'm pulling 8#,im need to lighten it up to around 2#.
28 July 2004, 14:18
GeronomoJust buy a Timney and with about 15 min. worth of file work (or use a Dremmel tool) you have a nice crisp adjustable trigger. Enclosed directions are very clear and succinct.
Geronimo
With a drimmel I have shaved down the front of most of my "Rugers's triggers to lower the pull. Out of 20 plus rifles I have only "screwed up" one.
So I bought a Dayton Traister for about $45.00 or so, direct from them. Works just as well as the other ones I have done myself.
At $50.00 for a trigger job, i am money way ahead, plus I know my firearm better.
I therefore Recommend the Dayton Traisters if you don't do it yourself.
Cheers and Good trigger adjustments
seafire
28 July 2004, 20:37
arky65seafire is dayton traister a trigger?
if it is how does it compare to the timmney?
how easy to install?
how do i get in touch with these people?
the timmney works well and is easy to install but always interested in some thing better.
arky65
Timney's work fine but if you do not know what you are doing, you will have a light trigger with creep. I don't like creep.
Send it to a good gunsmith, pay $50 plus shipping and get a quality job done on the factory trigger. My Ruger MKII has a 2lb 6oz trigger. My friend installed a Timney on his Ruger and it is at about 1.5lb but has creep.
I like Greg Richards in Hobbs, NM. He does excellent trigger work. You can find his site on SST under custom rifles.
Arky;
They are located in Anacortes or Oak Harbor Washington.
Do a search on line with them. Ruger triggers are easily installed. I think Midway or Graf and Sons carry them, but for a few more bucks.
If you can't find it, email me and I will dig out my paperwork from them, when I ordered mine.
Cheers and good shooting
seafire
No disrespect intended, but if you've installed a Timney trigger and it has creep, it is installed/adjusted wrong. The Timney makes one of the best, if not THE best, Ruger trigger possible. The Timney has a engagement adjustment built into the sear that comes with the trigger. Properly adjusted, there is no creep. The trigger has the overtravel built into it, and the spring adjusts weight. It is one super trigger and no gunsmith can best it, although they MIGHT equal it.
29 July 2004, 12:32
SteinyI recently ordered a Timney from Cabelas and installed it on my Ruger 77, .270 all weather rifle. It really was a pretty simple project if you follow the instructions, but like others said, you could screw it up filing too much.
I'm certainly no gunsmith. About all I'd ever done before that was install scopes, sling studs and such.
29 July 2004, 17:05
AtkinsonI'd beware of a Dayton Traister trigger that flat spring is prone to breakage...I really liked them at one time as you didn't have to remove hardly any wood from a Mauser and they fit in the original trigger orfice of the stock and that strengthened the stock considerably, but after several of those flat springs broke I quit using them, for what its worth...
I have seen some excellent trigger jobs done of the Rugers, the best I have seen were done by Scott McCracken but I don't know where he is today...somewhere around Las Vegas I think...
30 July 2004, 02:38
rugeruserI'm with Bobby - the Timney trigger is so adjustable there's no reason for creep. If memory serves (I'm a 'set and forget' guy, they are adjustable for sear engagement, over travel, creep, weight and just about anything else!
Easy to install, and excellent!
