38-40 winchester lever action

A rifle with a 'set trigger' will have what appears to be 2 triggers, usually. You pull one trigger and it drops the actual trigger, the second 'trigger' pull down to a couple of ounces. On occasion you might find a rifle with a set trigger that has only the one trigger. You'd push forward on this trigger until it clicks, the result is the same. As a broad general rule set triggers don't work as well on a lever action because there is so much jerking and slamming around with working the action that it interferes with the 'set'. I really can't remember seeing a lever action with a set trigger. Might be but I don't remember one?
 
Double set triggers were an option for the 73 but they are very rare. Single set triggers are more common but still rare.
 
Will the letter from the Cody museum tell what options were ordered on this rifle, i should be getting it pretty soon. terry
 
Here is my '73 Winchester. It is also .38-40. It was passed down to me from my father. He paid $5 for it about 1930. That doesn't sound like a lot but for him at the time it was almost a weeks pay.

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I noticed on the trigger there is a real small pin looking thing, is something to do with the trigger? Terry
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Picture? There is a little pin thingy behind the trigger that the lever
hits when closed---it's a safety device to keep you from firing without
the lever all the way closed. That--or something else?
 
Have been doing a little looking on other sites could this be something to do with a set trigger, you can push the trigger forward, also the hammer will go to full cock or half cock does this mean anything? Looked a little closer, the pin looks to be threaded at the bottom and with a real tiny slot in the top of it Terry
 
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Picture? There is a little pin thingy behind the trigger that the lever
hits when closed---it's a safety device to keep you from firing without
the lever all the way closed. That--or something else?
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It is a safety device to keep the gun from firing if the lever isn't all the way closed. There is a block behind the trigger. When you close the lever it pushes that pin up which pushes the block up so the trigger can be pulled. It is especially important with the '73 action for the lever to be fully closed. There is no breach block on the '73. It relies totally on the toggle link to hold the bolt in battery. The two pieces of the toggle link need to be in a straight line with each other to hold the bolt closed. The lever is attached to the center pivot point of the two toggle links and they are not alligned in a straight line and the bolt is not fully in battery if the lever is not fully closed.

In this picture you can see the pin.
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In this picture you can see the block behind the trigger.
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In this picture I am pushing in the pin with my finger. You can see the block has lifted out of the way so the trigger could be pulled.
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This is just a better picture of my '73.
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Tried to take a few better pics. the one of the trigger shows the pin i was talking about, looks like a single set trigger, what does everyone think, it also has a 30 inch barrel terry
 

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So are these single set triggers pretty rare? Also all the metal is a consistant brown color, is this the way they age, color wise? Terry
 
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