Hi all, I was just inletting a stock for an old Mauser 06 that I just put a Timney trigger on. I was noticeing that I had to remove lots of wood for clearance. If I was to build a big bore on an M-98, which trigger would work well and not require all the wood removal?

I just went thru the Timmney torture with a FN. The first trigger was too long and too far back and it hit the trigger guard at the bottom of the inside of the guard and almost touched at the back. So I called Timmney again and traded the first trigger, which they had specified, for the "K" model. This one was much further forward like the factory trigger and shorter as well. It would have been fine except the sear was way too high and the rifle would not fire. The instructions say that there is another choice that has a lower sear.

At this juncture I looked closer at the single stage "Mauser" type trigger that came with the rifle and when I lubed it with moly it measured a uniform 3.75 lbs. Now you have to know when to be happy! I sold the Timmey to a friend and now my FN is still orginal and the pull is just fine for a hunting rifle.

Perhaps Malm or some other smith will come on an suggest how to dress up or modify the existing military trigger. When they are done right they are pretty good.

I modified the stock trigger on my Turk 8x57. It has a bit of creep but is not too bad. I was afraid to take it any further and loose sear engagement and make it unsafe.

The Mauser trigger can be built up to a very decent trigger pull that breaks clean by some smiths but not many...Its easy to take the slack out of it.

The Blackburn is the best of the Mauser triggers I have used. The Dayton Traister triggers will break with fatique in my experience and thats not good on a DGR....

When using a Timney or even a blackburn it is best to cross bolt the stock IMO...the rear cross bolt will stop the problem of cracking due to wood removal..I might also drill out the tang area and insert a short bolt with glass and glass the tang with 20 thousands clearance....

I have the Timney Sportsman(?) on my Mauser and it has served me well for about 20 years. derf

I've got a couple of extra stock triggers in the tool box, maybe I'll try changing the leverage point on them so I can still have a decent sear engagement, but it won't take as much trigger pull to pull the sear down????

What Ray said, the Blackburn is the best. Someone at the Gunmakers Guild was working on a Model 70 clone trigger group to retrofit Mauser actions BUT I have not seen one advertised yet!