Folks, need a little tech help here. I'm going to help my brother adjust the trigger on his late model A-Bolt 300 Win Mag and I need to know what to expect, i.e. which screws do what.

I'm familiar with adjusting triggers, have installed and adjusted Shilen triggers on Remington 700's etc. so I'm familiar with the procedure, I just haven't ever done any adjusting on a Browning and I can't find any kind of pictures or instructions anywhere.

Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Tom

Kingfisher,
I have an A-Bolt circa 1996 that was very easy to adjust. I don't have it sitting in front of me, but if memory serves me correctly there is a small screw with an allen head located on the bottom of the trigger assembly. Turn the gun upside down and look up in the rifle in front of the actual trigger piece. You should see the head. You will need to remove the trigger guard to get to it with the wrench if I remember correctly, but all you do is screw than in or out to tighten or loosen the tension. If you need more than that a competent gunsmith is probably in order, but that got mine down to a nice amount of pull.

Hope this helps.

Alright, the screw you're talking about is going to be the weight of pull... that's easy enough. What about sear engagement? Do you know where the screw for that is located? I'm sure I can find it once I look at it, I just thought I'd try to find out as much as possible in advance.

BTT

I don't remember seeing a screw to adjust the sear. I think the smith changed springs. The adjustment for weight didn't go as light as I like them either.

Bob257

Unless they have been changed in the last year, you will only find the one adj. screw on an A-bolt trigger. Located behind the trigger, it adjusts weight of pull only. I grind for engagement and replace the trigger spring when I work on one...have yet to have trouble with one. they will work down to a nice trigger. I drill and tap thru the trigger face and install an overtravel stop.

I was looking at the exploded diagram of the A-Bolt and it looks like it might have a hole in the bolt raceway and the sear screw is in the bottom, similar to a Weatherby Accumark. Can someone who has an A-Bolt or A-Bolt II handy pull the bolt on their gun and tell me that they have in the bolt raceway? Right now, I'm going on the assumption that Browning has a sear engagement screw, but they're going to be just like Weatherby and not tell anyone about it in the interest of safety.

I had a chance to check out my brother's A-Bolt today after work. I tightened down the screw for weight of pull until it stopped and that thing still has like a 6 lb trigger. It breaks clean, no creep, it's just too damned stiff still, so I'm going to order him the replacement springs from Timney tomorrow and see what happens. It's a shame that a nice gun like a Browning isn't more configurable... like say... a Remington 700?