I've got rifles with both wide and narrow trigger blades. In trying to make the pull feel the same on all of them I'm trying to decide if the weight should be set the same by a pull gage accross the board. Or, since the blade on the wide ones are about 2x the width of the narrow ones should I set the wide ones to roughly double the weight. In the second scenario the total force is twice as much but the pressure would be the same. I'm thinking this would trick the brain into thinking the pull was the same. Does your body recognise pressure rather than total force? Just thinking out loud.

There are 2 places where the Pacinian corpuscles (the receptors under your skin that transmit pressure data) are the most sensitive: your index finger and the tip of your tongue.

Your index finger can detect and apply pressure that is a fraction of a single ounce.

Set the trigger as light as you feel confident applying the corresponding pressure.

As long as you practice and become familiar with that let off (and of course the trigger is mechanically safe) you'll be fine.

Garrett

Perviously all of my triggers were narrow, and they were all set at 12 ounces. For a while I had my Jewell set at 2 ounces, but it was just to much difference from the others to stay profecient. 12 ounces works very well for me on those narrow triggers. I just recently aquired 2 rifles with triggers that are at least twice as wide, and even though they measure the same 12 ounces they deffinately feel different. I may end up setting the triggers in the mill and narrowing them up to the same width as my others.

Rhys,

I'm like you...the more I shoot, the lighter I like my trigger pull on a rifle.

It spooks my fellow hunters when I tell them a particular rifle is set below 1 lb., but for me it actually feels safer since I am more aware of my preparing to fire.

I agree with your idea of making the triggers feel more uniform in their width. One more gun project to finish though...

Garrett

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Originally posted by N. Garrett:
It spooks my fellow hunters when I tell them a particular rifle is set below 1 lb., but for me it actually feels safer since I am more aware of my preparing to fire.

As well it should. Hopefully, for your friends sake, you are tripping around through the woods with an empty chamber.

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As well it should. Hopefully, for your friends sake, you are tripping around through the woods with an empty chamber.

Sorry if my hunting buddy had his trigger set that light (unless a varmint rifle from a rest) and carried a round in the chamber I would find a new partner. Then again I feel any carry rifle should have and empty chamber.

One thing many people don't take into account is that the triggers we are doing this with are not your standard loose tolerance factory jobs. They have all had the angles recut, been resprung and all tolerances tightened up, or they are higher end custom jobs designed to allow these settings.

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Originally posted by Rhys:
One thing many people don't take into account is that the triggers we are doing this with are not your standard loose tolerance factory jobs. They have all had the angles recut, been resprung and all tolerances tightened up, or they are higher end custom jobs designed to allow these settings.

Doesn't matter, unless you are on some varmint or other "controlled" type hunt, what matters in the field to those in your hunting party and those within the range of your bullet, is that your trigger be able to withstand a certain amount of shock without firing.

I wouldn't set them by gauge....I'd set them by feel such they all "felt" the same.

A local hunter had used a 30-06 in a '98 Mauser here with a military trigger for years. He always wanted a nice trigger and I swapped him the installation of a Timney trigger and a Dakota three position safety for moving about 500 yards of dirt for my house project. (a real deal for me as it had been quoted at over $1,000!!!)

He loved the new arrangement but when the deer season opened he missed the first two deer he shot at because he "wasn't used to the trigger" (as he said). I had set the trigger at a tad over two pounds.

Familiarization with the equipment is very important and having all the equipment "feel" the same is a goal to work toward.

Westpac,

Take a Win Model 70 (new or old), chamber a primed/uncharged case, and drop it butt first against the hard floor with the safety off. It will fire.

My custom rifles with trigger pulls of 14 oz. won't fire with the same test.

I am not sure I know what you are talking about.
My custom rifles are a heck of alot safer than fellow shooters factory ones in terms of accidental discharge.

Garrett

That's strange, I have a pre '64 and a later G series push feed. Neither one will trip the trigger as you describe. Both triggers are factory and are adjusted for a 3.5lb pull.

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Originally posted by Westpac:

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Originally posted by Rhys:
One thing many people don't take into account is that the triggers we are doing this with are not your standard loose tolerance factory jobs. They have all had the angles recut, been resprung and all tolerances tightened up, or they are higher end custom jobs designed to allow these settings.

Doesn't matter, unless you are on some varmint or other "controlled" type hunt, what matters in the field to those in your hunting party and those within the range of your bullet, is that your trigger be able to withstand a certain amount of shock without firing.