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I'm going to have my gunsmith install one of the Rifle Basix replacement triggers in my Hawkeye. I'm also one of those that won't work on triggers. I just don't. I don't like mushrooms on my steak either, and I get "irritated" when a Waiter say "we don't have Coke Products, we have Pepsi"! ... lol.

By God!

I worked one on a 77/22. Removed he hump and reduced the engagement. With a replacement spring, the reworked trigger tested safe, but was too light for my taste, so the original one went back in. Perfect. Less work actually than working down the safety pad on a Timney.

Funny post but I'd bet Paul could kick your ass.

I forgot to mention in regards to the Mark II and Hawkeye models, Dayton made a replacement trigger for a while, I have one and it is very nice. All you do is swap the parts. If you wanted to enhance the set up on that one there is adjustment available but I found the specs as is more than appealing.

Timney’s work great in the M77 MKII and take about 15 min to install if I remember correctly. I don’t remember having to tweak anything on the Timney I installed years ago with no prior experience. I certainly wouldn’t pay anyone to do it.

I’ve also stoned/polished several down to a nice crisp 2.5-3lbs. Follow the directions online it ain’t that hard.

Having said that....If you think you’re going to screw it up working on it yourself, do it anyway. You might surprise yourself. If you do screw it up, just buy the Timney and put it in yourself...it’ll be perfect.

Best case: You gain some knowledge about how the trigger works and how to tune it. Worst case: You end up spending the money you would have paid a smith to work on it on a new Timney which will be as good or better than your smith could have done.

Just my thoughts,

Leftybolt

I believe that you're talking about Dayton Traister. I put one in a MKII 20+ years ago and have been pretty happy with it. They're adjustable for pull, but not overtravel, but that's a fairly simple thing to remedy. Price was in to $45 range when I bought mine.

I have used this method in the post by UncleAlps working on every Mk II and Hawkeye that I have owned in the last many years and it works great. It removes all the creep and will usually get trigger pull weight down to 2.5 to 3.0 pounds. In a couple, I did need to change the trigger spring to achieve the pull weight I wanted. Work slowly and don’t remove too much at a time. I have not caused an unsafe trigger on any Rugers that I have worked in this manner. It just works!

Adding a PS: I am not a gunsmith and not really very mechanical. But I can read and that’s all it takes.