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Bought a Browning BLR 243 off a fellow 24hour member. I'm more than happy with the rifle and it's condition considering the price I paid. That being said, I would like to improve it's horrid trigger. Anyone have experience on my options on such a task?
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Here's your guy: http://www.neiljones.com/It's not cheap, but it requires multiple disassemblies of the clockworks of the BLR. He did my .325 BLR and now it's a relatively clean 3 lbs- entirely acceptable.
The CENTER will hold.
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FÜCK PUTIN!
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How much am I looking at Jeff? Including shipping.
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Well thanks Jeff. I decided to send Neil my BLR for his trigger job. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
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Sorry, I missed your earlier question (I didn't know the answer anyway...)..
What's he charging now?
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$120.00 not including return shipping. I don't see anything wrong with that knowing how bad this trigger actually is. 2-3 week shop time. Yeah. No brainer really.
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Neil is great with BLR triggers you will be surprise on what he an do...
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Plus I asked him to clean and lube up the guts of the thing cause god knows I'll never disassemble that SOB.
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Heck, most gunsmiths won't! I had a .358 BLR, and I was chasing a number on the chrono and was into some major powder compression. Powder pushed the bullet out; round wouldn't chamber; and then when I went to eject it, it pulled the bullet out and dumped a whole caseload of long stick powder (3031 I think it was) into the guts of the thing. It was an absolute nightmare to clean. I'm sure there's still some powder deep in that action. I take some pride in seeing people use Neil for this. When he dud mine, he hadn't done one in many years, but said, well ok, I'll do it I suppose. He charged me $75. Afterwards he said he made like $10/hr <g>.... I tried to pay him more but he wouldn't take it. I told him I was gonna put the word out, and he'd see more BLR's..... he said he was going to charge a lot more next time! 
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Neil called me today and we squared up. I'll report on the outcome.
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Got my BLR back from Neil. 200% improvement. Little take up remains but creep and pull weight are "fixed". Highly recommend.
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Sounds like Neil did it right.
FWIW, on my BLR there's an adjustment screw for the take up but it can't be eliminated entirely and still function properly.
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