How refined are the factory triggers on the NEF rifles? Thinking of getting one in a varmint caliber for my carry gun.

NEF triggers, as they come from the factory are fair, that's about the best word to describe them. They can definitely be refined with stoning of the angles and lightening the spring tension slightly. They are probably not a job for an ametuer tinkerer, but if you have some mechanical ability, you can make them better. Installing a stop screw is fairly easy also, because the trigger guard is plastic.
If you don't mess with the trigger yourself, I understand NEF will do a trigger job fairly cheap and that's without a doubt the best way to go.

Mine was a bag of rocks from the factory (about 6 years ago...)



I did a trigger job on my NEF single barrel rifled slug gun. I'm not a fan of NEF, but I wasn't going to spend a fortune on a gun I use one day a year here in Ohio.



You have to drift the pins out of the action to work on the trigger and it's a pain in the ass! It's not hard, however. You need some good brass drift punches if you don't want to scar the pins.



I did not cut or bend any springs, just stoned and deburred all surfaces and edges and assembled using moly. For my 100 yard rifled 12 ga. shots this smoothed the trigger enough to regularly get 1-1/2 inch groups at 100 yards.



Turned out that my NEF (a HEAVY 10 gauge blank bored to a rifled 12 gauge) is very accurate, and was a good deal for my one day/one shot/one deer gun here in Ohio.



Don_G

You can go to the trouble of doing the trigger job
yourself -or- you can send it to NEF and they will do it for free....What I did was send my receiver in for a new barrel (.223 bull, 24")and asked them to adjust the pull to 2.5 lbs, came back between 2.75 and 3...Ship date to receive date, 3 weeks, no charge for the trigger, barrel cost me around $100.00....still working on loads and getting the forearm adjusted right.