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Anyone with a Ruger M77 Hawkeye switch out the spring with a lighter one from Ernie the Gunsmith. If so, how well did it work out for you?

I don't own a trigger pull gauge and I don't mess with triggers enough to bother buying one. I'm thinking of simply replacing the spring myself rather than taking it to a local smith. I'd just like some feed back on how well you liked the newer spring in a Hawkeye and if your trigger needed additional work beyond that?

Thanks.

I polished the parts on my Hawkeye trigger with Mothers and a Dremel then clipped about 1/2 of a coil off and it came out great.

I put one in and it made just enough difference to no longer be an issue... A cheap and easy improvement.

Most hawkeye triggers break clean and are just a bit heavy, the trigger spring will help with that for not much cost. It will take a pound or two off, it won't be as light as say a timney can be adjusted to, but better than factory. its worth the $10 or so they cost.

If your trigger has creep, then I would either find a smith, or timney it.

It worked for me as well. An easy upgrade.

Having never done it before, any tools required to just replace the spring?

No, take longer to take it out of the action that it does to replace the spring.

With a light touch, you can polish up the trigger a bit while you're in there.

Glad to see your avatar is BACK.

Go down to you local true value or ace hardware and buy a spring for 50 cents... Much easier than messing with ordering a $7.00 spring online from ernie.

My Hawkeye has the 2-stage, so is okay as is, but used one on my 77/22 to good effect. Not as good as the Timney kit, but good enough and much cheaper and quicker. Also much better than the Wolffe spring. The same spring works in the simple trigger on my 1948 FN as well.

Given a little time and enough treats, I think I could show my Lab how to do it; well my wife anyway.

I've owned a bunch of Mark II's and Hawkeyes over the years and all have benefited from either a spring change or spring modification; however all of them had too much creep for my liking. Creep can only be corrected by a little work on the sear, but it's not hard to do with a good Arkansas stone and a little patience.

I put Ernie's springs in both of my Hawkeyes. Noticeably better, and worth the cost. I don't have a gauge, but the triggers are no longer an issue.

From your post it sounds as if you have done exactly this. How much of a difference did this make from the factory spring and do you by chance have a part #?