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Talking about bolt action rifles, do any rimfire rifles have triggers that "feel" like modern centerfire rifle triggers?

If not, are there any aftermarket rimfire triggers that "feel" like centerfire triggers?

Most of my centerfire experience has been with Remington 700s and pre-Accutrigger Savage 110s, but I have shot a few other centerfires too, and in my experience with a few rimfire rifles, the rimfire triggers feel considerably different when firing, even if the pull weight is similar.

Kimber K22

Ruger M77/22

Browning T-Bolt.

Look into a Timney trigger for the aftermarket triggers, or a Jewel trigger.

Coopers m57 have the same feel as my m21,m52,m54.

Ruger Americans centerfire and rimfire share the same trigger

Flyer

Remington 40X 22LR

My 77-22 was as crappy as as a m77 so yes.....both are easy to rework...

Remington 541-S.

My new CZ 452 has a pretty good trigger, straight out of the box, better than my 455's trigger, which has some creep.

Both are pretty good, but can be improved with some springs and sleeves, I'm told. Neither rifle of mine needs those, but it can and is done by a lot of folks. That's under $15, they say. I can live with mine, as is.

My Marlin bolt action .22's do after I get done with them.

Anschutz 64

Rambling Razorback,

Most of the rimfires my wife and I own have centerfire-type trigger pulls, the rifles including an Anschutz 54, Browning T-Bolt (the original), a couple of CZ 452's, and a Yonkers Kimber. The NULA .22 rimfire also has a very good trigger pull, because it has a Timney trigger.

But it also depends on how you define centerfire. My Winchester 62A pump (essentially a pump version of a Winchester lever-action) has a better pull than most 94's I've owned, and the pull on Eileen's Savage 29B pump is also very good.

Dunno how you're defining a different feel.

The trigger on my CZ 455 Varmint is one of the very best I have--right out of the box.

My Cooper 57M had as good trigger as I've ever felt.

My CZ 512 had a horrible trigger but I knew that going in. There is an excellent gunsmith about 15 minutes from my house that did a trigger job. He brought it from 7 lbs down to 3. That was three years. Now it has a 2.5 lb pull. I guess it lightened up some with use.

Like Mule Deer I'm not sure what you mean by "Feels like a centerfire."

My CZ 452 rimfire had a terrible trigger when I got it. I bought a trigger kit from YoDave and fixed it myself. The kit comes with four different springs and spacers and gives you real choices on how it feels. If you don't want to do it yourelf, your gunsmith could do it easily and quickly.

My trigger on the CZ now feels the way centerfire triggers should feel. I'm an old benchrest shooter (Emphasis on "old") and have been shooting 1-1/2 or 2 oz. triggers for nearly forty years. My CZ trigger is set very light, probably around 6 or 8 oz., but with the YoDave kit you can set it amyway you want.

The kit costs $20.00 and is one of life's bargains.

Ruger, CZ, Anschitz, Marlin, Savage....



Travis

I too do not know exactly what you mean by different feel. Both my CF and RF rifles have creep free triggers in the 2-3 lb range and feel the same to me.

Truth ^^^^^^^^^^

My Anschutz and Sako both have really good triggers.

Salvage put Accu-triggers on some rim fires and most center fires. Feels like the same POS on both.

Whittaker is generally the best place to get CZ rifles, which are my sweet spot for quality/workmanship/price.

Google "PMTJ" - poor man's trigger job - and you'll find lots of helpful info.

The Ace #144 spring is now available at most of the Sears Hardware stores around here.

CZs are great - I have a CZ 453 - but the trigger is not the same as the centerfire bolt action triggers that I have experience with.

For those asking about what is different about the "feel," the CZ 453 rimfire trigger is much narrower and has more side-to-side play than the triggers on centerfire rifles such as Rem 700, Sav 110, Ruger, etc. Some of my centerfire triggers have practically no side-to-side play. Like a lot of parts of rimfire rifles, the trigger and trigger mechanism appear to be scaled down, and as a result, the feel when pulling the trigger is different even though the pull weight is similar.

Winchester 52.

52 Winchester or 40x remington

browning sa

My Rem 541T trigger is just like a 700 trigger right down to the 3 adjusting screws.

40x , put s Jewel in it. You can't do any better

Ruger 77/22

As the others have said, it sucks right out of the box...so it is exactly like their centerfires. It's easily fixed though.

Blaser R93 with rimfire kit. Same trigger as centerfire as it uses the same stock and fire control system.

I got a couple of heavy barrel Sako Finnfires with a 1 oz Jewel triggers it doesn't get any better than this period.

My .22 has one of the three best triggers on rifles that I have. Thay are a kimber 84m Montana (stock), a kimber of Oregon 82 .22 hornet (stock) and my ruger 77/22 (modified). Had a firing pin replaced in the 77/22 in 1988, gunsmith did a "trigger job" while he had it for a few more $$. Ended up with a very good trigger, but have to warn anyone else that shoots it because they don't expect a light crisp trigger on a 77/22!

SSG 3000 with a 22lr kit.