Adding spring to a Traditions trigger ?

[kyron4]

Anyone add a spring to the trigger of a Traditions rifle to keep from being "loose" and "floppy" ? I'm working on a Kentucky Rifle kit and the even in full **** the trigger has a loose sloppy feel, and rattle to it. Seems a small torsion spring could be installed to add a little tension to the trigger to keep it from being loose and rattle free. Any input ? -Thanks

 

[mmb617]

I built the exact same kit and the first thing I noticed about it was that the trigger had a ton of slop in it.

Have you shot yours yet? I was thinking I needed to come up with something to improve the trigger on mine till I started shooting it. To my surprise that gun is the one I am most accurate with shooting off hand. The trigger doesn't feel odd at all to me anymore. I've shot it a fair amount so I'm used to it.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Not a Traditions, but I did put a spring behind the trigger on my TVM poor boy smoothbore. It was fine when cooked, but after firing when the **** was down or at half ****, the trigger was very "floppy". A small spring to hold tension on the trigger cured the problem.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I make "trigger springs" out of steel guitar strings. Light weight and easy to fit.

 

[Fifty Four]

I cut a notch about 3/16" deep into the top of the trigger bar at the opposite corner from the trigger shoe itself, leaving a sort of "post", and pushed a cut-down pen spring onto it. The spring is oriented more or less upward, contacting the wood. Works like a charm. Keeps the trigger from flapping around, and is up off of the sear arm of the lock until the trigger is squeezed. The effect is similar to a 2-stage military trigger.

 

[deermanok]

My Traditions Deerhunter has a bit of a sloppy trigger. With the hammer at full ****, the trigger does seem to lock up alot better.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Anyone add a spring to the trigger of a Traditions rifle to keep from being "loose" and "floppy" ? I'm working on a Kentucky Rifle kit and the even in full **** the trigger has a loose sloppy feel, and rattle to it. Seems a small torsion spring could be installed to add a little tension to the trigger to keep it from being loose and rattle free. Any input ? -Thanks

Not sure what your trigger looks like, but if it is a single trigger, just measure the distance from the face of the trigger base plate to the sear. Measure again only to the top of the trigger bar. The latter measurment will undoubtedly be a shorter length. Add material to the top of the trigger bar so it just touches the sear. You do not want to compress the sear, just be to it. Forget the spring, that will work, but the wrong way to fix a poor install.
Larry

 

[kyron4]

I built the exact same kit and the first thing I noticed about it was that the trigger had a ton of slop in it.

Have you shot yours yet? I was thinking I needed to come up with something to improve the trigger on mine till I started shooting it. To my surprise that gun is the one I am most accurate with shooting off hand. The trigger doesn't feel odd at all to me anymore. I've shot it a fair amount so I'm used to it.

No, still building it. Thought maybe I was missing a part, but turns out jus the way it is made.