I have a sportized 8mm mauser 98. the trigger is horrible. It feels like it travels 3/4's of an inch and is about 10lbs. What can I do to fix it. Can I have it ajusted or can I get and after market one? Any suggestions?

NECG sells them I believe.

Timney M98 Trigger $51.99

I run them on most of my Mausers. They work great.

Terry

There's more than a couple options. I've used both Timney and Bold.

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The cheaper Timney Sportsman is a fine trigger ... minimum trigger pull is a bit over two pounds and crisp as can be.

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I've used both Timney and Bold.

There are probably better triggers than these two but not nearly at their price. I've used both but, mainly Timney and they are hard to beat.

If you don't want to shell out $$ it is possible with very little work to tune a 98 trigger to "excellent" albeit still with the double stage. Have a look at www.surplusrifle.com or similar. I have a sporterized 98 (with after a bit of judicous polishing here and there, and a few iterations of part swaps of sear and trigger) that has a trigger that at the second stage is easily the equal of the fine Euro triggers.

Cheers - Foster

tuning up a mauser trigger is a really easy job. bit of honing and spring tuning and you should have a nice 2 stage 4# trigger

You can use a locking set screw at the front of the Mauser trigger to take up the slack and it will be quite acceptable, then hone the sear etc. such as seen on many nice old English rifles..I like this particularly well on big bore rifles as it leaves so much more wood in place and makes the stock much stronger and you can get a very decent 3.5 to 4 lb. trigger that breaks clean...but its easier I suppose to use a Timney, and they are great triggers for hunting rifles.

I've never had a problem getting a military type trigger down to 2.5 to 3 lbs. I've also used the Bold and Timneys, both work great for the price.

If you're not a pro at trigger and sear modification, spend the $40 and get the Timney and be done with it.

If you mis-alter that trigger/sear interface you could be creating a dangerous situation where releasing the safety could make the gun fire.

With any trigger/sear mod, always check for safe operation afterwards.

At a minimum with the rifle unloaded:
1) Cock the rifle put it on safe and pull the trigger - it should not fire
2) Cock the rifle, put it on safe, pull the trigger and release the safety - it should not fire
3) Cock the rifle, safety off (be doubly sure its unloaded for this one) and slam the buttstock against the floor. It should not fire

Whether you go to a Timney or fiddle with the existing trigger/sear verify safe operation with 1-3 above. There are I think one or two other ones, but 1-3 is the minimum

The reason I ask you to test what the safety is doing is on the Mausers the safety blocks the sear and releasing the safety releases the sear to sit against the trigger.

Here's an example of what Atkinson is talking about with another screw added through the sear spring cup to adjust overtravel.

This trigger breaks at a hair over 3# and is very crisp.

Rojelio

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Originally posted by TC1:
Timney M98 Trigger $51.99

I run them on most of my Mausers. They work great.

Terry

I'll second the Timney trigger!

Put one in my Vz-24 - Great trigger!

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Originally posted by Rojelio:
Here's an example of what Atkinson is talking about with another screw added through the sear spring cup to adjust overtravel.

This trigger breaks at a hair over 3# and is very crisp.

Rojelio

I have done that enough times with the Silver solder, drill and tap, drill and tap, replace the spring.

But these days, I just grind off the rear hump o the trigger and make it a single stage.
That gets it down from ~7 pounds to ~ 4 pounds, which is good enough for big game.