My first rifle, a Savage/Anschutz 141 from the '60s, will sometimes trip the sear with bolt return despite having no pressure applied to the trigger. Needless to say this bothers me. My son will be "of age" in a few years and I'd like to get this situation definitively corrected inasmuch as this will be his first .22. A few years back a local smith tinkered with the mechanism, but the situation persists.

What would you do in this situation? Should I send the gun to Germany, or do you know of any firms or gunsmiths stateside that you'd trust to do this work correctly?

Thanks for any help,

Sam

Samuel---

That's a direct acting sear that depends on proper geometry to be secure. It's possible the parts can be reground to the proper flatness and angle then reheat-treated if needed.

It's also possible a new trigger or sear is needed.

Either way, it can be repaired without a trip to Germany.

Email me.

Samuel:

I once cleaned an Anschutz trigger on a target rifle (don't recall the model number) for a friend, and the job required disassembly because it had grit in it.

It was a pretty complicated trigger with very fine machining and tight tolerances.

I would definitely not trust real repair to a run-of-the-mill gunsmith! Jack Belk is surely one of the ones who you could trust with it though!

jpb