Trigger Pull Preferance ?

[Sage Dog]

For coyote and such, what weight trigger pull do you like?

[FWS]

I'm using Shilen triggers on my Rem. 700 varmint rifles and they are set at 2 lbs., they're a good trigger that can safely be set at that pull weight. Like a glass rod breaking.

[akona20]

Two stage. One pound then two pound.

[mean1]

I have all my rifles and shotguns set at 3lb. Goodluck


mean1

[lb]

Two stage? Of course, designed by lawyers, and inferior for our purpose. Those product liability wonks should be dragged from their Beamers and beaten with a stout rod.

I like to set most of my single stage triggers, on rifles used for hunting, at 1¼ pounds.

Good hunting. LB

[akona20]

My dear lb,

I have been a competition shooter for 44 years (since I was 14) and a shooter of many other things all my life.

If you check with the old Lee Enfield SMLE .303 you will find it had as issued a two stage trigger. Now as this was my first full bore rifle and my first target rifle I wonder where I got my liking for two stage triggers from?

Now certain folks can't master a two stage trigger. Those folks are the ones who can't wait for the best possible shot and squeeze one off hoping to hit rather than placing the shot for a one shot kill.

But hey who am I to dispute your suggestion.

[lb]

Exactly! Who are you, to swim upstream, and dispute my opinion?

303 Enfield? I'm going to be sixty-five next month and 303 Enfields were obsolete way before I was a teenager. My first centerfire was a 270 Winchester with a single stage trigger.

Stick with what you are used to, you old fossil! ;D

[lb]

"Now certain folks can't master a two stage trigger. Those folks are the ones who can't wait for the best possible shot and squeeze one off hoping to hit rather than placing the shot for a one shot kill.(akona20)

Exactly how did you arrive at the above conclusion?

Good hunting. LB

[akona20]

Experience on a number of continents.

Thanks for the PM I will visit the site tomorrow, thank you for the invite.

Now as for the .303 being obselete. I suggest you check your facts for here. The full bore target rifle for official competition here when I started shooting was the .303 military cartridge which was superceded by the 7.62 NATO a few years later.

But who am I to argue, I was just following what was happening here.

[redsnow]

Last summer I replaced the trigger on my 22250, it's set at 1.75#, it's a better trigger than what came stock, about as light as I'm comfortable with wearing gloves, in a hunting situation.

[richc]

I have never used a trigger scale. I just set my trigger to a tad above nothing. If the trigger don't break when I stomp the butt of my rifle on the floor, I am almost there. I click the safety on, try to pull the trigger and if I don't hear the firing pin fall, I am getting closer. Then I click the safety back off to be certain the dang thing still ain't gonna go bang. Everything still looks good, then I am ready to go coyote calling.

[lynxcat]

I have a canjar single set trigger..have NO clue what it's set at... 1st setting is set to where if you have canvas gloves on you JUST feel the trigger when it goes off..guess 2lb range.. 2nd stage you use your thumb and birdie finger to set it... it goes off with skin tension..you do NOT even feel it. The #2 setting is my "long range" trigger... it makes me look "GOOD"..
lynx

[Sage Dog]

I just put a Rifle Basix LV-1 set just under its' max 1.5# on my .17CF Remington 700. I'll give it a try come yote fur season.

[lynxcat]

Should be fun... I've found that once I had my trigger installed...that I had to be a BIT MORE meticulous on cleaning... ;D I've always cleaned my coyote gun ONCE a year...just after season end. Now I have to be a bit more attentive.
lynx