JEBar wrote:North Country Gal wrote:I've been looking at these guns in the stores in our area and have found a fair amount of variation in the trigger pull, one gun to the next. Some pretty decent, but some heavy enough to be a deal breaker for me. Just what can be done with these guns?
I'm somewhat surprised to hear that ..... with our 3 Henry rifles we have seen some initial stiffness in the lever action that smoothed out rather quickly when in use .... I haven't put a scale on them but can't detect much, if any, difference in the trigger pulls .... none have a competition, set trigger pull but all have a very respectable hunting rifle pull .... all that being said, I'm looking forward to reading reports from folks who have experience in this area
well .... I was clearly wrong .. .. after reading the post in this thread I got to thinking about it and decided I wanted to know for sure .... so, I ordered a Wheeler Engineering Trigger Pull Scale ===> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004E ... UTF8&psc=1 <=== today I used it for the first time and it proved to be an eyeopening experience .... sample of results shown below :
trigger pull for our :
Henry CCH 45-70 .... 7.25 lbs
Henry BBS 44 Mag .... 3.5 lbs
Remington 700 300 WBY .... 4.5 lbs
Remington 700 30-06 ... 5.5 lbs
Browning BLR 308 .... 4.5 lbs
Winchester Model 94 30-30 .... 4.5 lbs
Remington 11-87 12 ga .... 4 lbs
that pretty well cements my decision to have the trigger on our 45-70 worked on in January