ruger mark II, stainless synthetic 10 years old

gun has horrible trigger, is the factory trigger adjustable or is replacement required?

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The factory trigger is not adjustable and are usually quite heavy. I called Timney about a dozen years ago, they told me replacing just the trigger spring usually helped a lot, I told them to send me two and they did at no charge. I put one in each rifle and still am using them that way, new pull is about 56 oz. Not the best trigger but fine for me and a heck of a lot better than the original 6-7 pounds pull.

just replace it, parts are on midway and brownells

As you've discovered, the factory trigger is not ajustable, but, turning that factory trigger into something decent is pretty simple as triggers go.

simple thing to do - just take the pin out that holds the trigger assembly on the receiver. take the spring out and replace it with a much weaker (but slightly longer) one. you can also hone the parts a bit, but the spring change will take it down to a 2.5-4# pull (depending on the spring) It actually takes longer to take the barreled action out of the stock then it down to do the trigger

Not a smith myself but I had my smith work on the trigger of my 77 Mk II... It's at about 3 pounds and has ZERO creep... My smith is pretty good but I suspect most smiths can take care of the Ruger "lawyer trigger" ...

Ken....

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Originally posted by Heat:
Not a smith myself but I had my smith work on the trigger of my 77 Mk II... It's at about 3 pounds and has ZERO creep... My smith is pretty good but I suspect most smiths can take care of the Ruger "lawyer trigger" ...

Ken....

On my two m77 rifles the same job is done as Heat describes.
Clean letoff at approx 3 pounds.
For big game rifles that is plenty OK for me.