By Mistake My 795/.22 Is Only 3-1/2 lbs!

[.300 Weatherby Mag]

Takes more skill to shoot a heavy trigger on a light rifle.
Good practice IMO.

Why waste your time with a heavy trigger?? I don't see the point... I will not tolerate a firearm with a heavy trigger..

All new firearms require a trigger job due to frivolous U.S. law suit

Try a savage with an Accu-trigger. The sporters go down to 2.5#'s... I have my model 12 Varmint set at 1.5#'s....

3.5 lbs is good enough for a hunting rifle too.

Its fine... 3 pounds is my preference.. The extreme cold weather guns are set a little higher... I don't walk around with a live round in the chamber anyway... Most of my hunting is going to be at distance due to open terrain and doesn't require quick, reflex type shots..

 

[Jimro]

I bought a new 700 that had a walker trigger that didn't exactly function as it should, meaning that the gun went off at times it shouldn't have.. Remington replaced the trigger with an absolutely horrid, X-Mark trigger... It will probably get a Timney before all is said and done.. Even with the X-Mark adjusted it still is unsatifactory compared to every other sporting rifle I own...

The specific "problem" with "Walker Triggers" is that if you move the Safety between "Safe" and "Fire", pull the trigger, and then place the safety on "Fire" the rifle may discharge (if the connector rod is bent, broken, corroded, etc).

So that your rifle "went off when it shouldn't" doesn't sound like the specific problem with a Walker trigger unless you had your booger hook on the bangswitch while your thumb was fiddling with the safety.

And while this is interesting, it doesn't have much to do with why a Marlin 795 has a tough trigger pull, but having worked on the trigger of a Model 70 there are a LOT of moving parts in that thing, the side plates alone look like a reject from a clock factory.

Jimro

 

[.300 Weatherby Mag]

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[Art Eatman]

Enuf wandering away from problem solving...