Saturday, January 2, 2010

Trigger Lesson learned

No good way to illustrate this with a picture, sorry. I learned an important thing about my trigger group. It's a double trigger, set trigger style that is adjustable. I thought the screw that protrudes conspicuously between the two triggers was for adjusting the trigger. Well, it is but it's not the only adjustment available.

I was thinking that by pulling on the trigger (not the set trigger) that I was somehow pushing the sear off of whatever the sear catches on in order to make the hammer fall. Not so! As it turns out (after asking some smart people about it) the set trigger has a blade on it and the main trigger trips this blade to flick or smack into the sear lever and THAT is what causes the hammer to fall!

Once I discovered that there was an adjustment to the sprint under the trigger group that regulates how HARD the set trigger blade smacks the sear bar, I had my "Problem" solved and I came away learning something very basic.

Now I can move on to something that uses less brain cells...hopefully.