Odessa-how's the trigger on your 88? I bought one in .243 and it had a very heavy trigger. Just never could be satisfied with it. Hunted with it one season and then sent it down the road. I'm a 99 guy. I always thought the 88 was a good looking rifle.
I'd call this trigger "decent". It is not as clean or smooth as my pre-64 M70's, but it isn't the creepy, crunchy, 8 lbs. trigger you hear about so often with these rifles. This one has never been worked on (in the 25 years I've owned it), measures 5.5 lbs. on my old RCBS Trigger Pull gauge, and frankly I never even think about it when shooting a deer.
