4deer
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My CVA kit gun I've been building for the past 8 years was missing the trigger for it. Since I have a forging hobby I decided to give a try at making my own trigger.
At first I was planning to just pin it to the stock, but I found that the wood cutout in the CVA stock was going to allow a lot of slop. So I forged the lugs to the right thinness and silver soldered them onto my trigger plate. For a pin I used an old nail. Since I didn't feel like attaching a spring to the trigger I did what I read about in a book and just drilled a whole for the sear to slid into. So far that method seems to be working well.
It looks pretty good in the trigger guard I thought. I have a tiny bit more polishing to do at the base. It feels good when I hold the gun.
I understand now why a lot of the originals have a straight trigger. At first when I set out to make the trigger it was going to be curved a bit more to fit the finger, but as I worked with it I found the more straight style was way easier to make.
Side question since my barrel was in the last picture. I got the impression from a book that barrels can be naturally browned so I've not polished off the outside of my barrel and left it oil free for these many years in my basement. I see that in parts of it there is a nice brown color developing. Do I need to worry about controlling the amount of rust in the areas that are already brown versus the areas that still need brown? If I try to wipe the brown areas down with oil I feel like I'm probably going to stop the clear areas from browning.
Let me know if my pictures don't work--I know I had trouble one other time before, but I think I got them right this time.
At first I was planning to just pin it to the stock, but I found that the wood cutout in the CVA stock was going to allow a lot of slop. So I forged the lugs to the right thinness and silver soldered them onto my trigger plate. For a pin I used an old nail. Since I didn't feel like attaching a spring to the trigger I did what I read about in a book and just drilled a whole for the sear to slid into. So far that method seems to be working well.
It looks pretty good in the trigger guard I thought. I have a tiny bit more polishing to do at the base. It feels good when I hold the gun.
I understand now why a lot of the originals have a straight trigger. At first when I set out to make the trigger it was going to be curved a bit more to fit the finger, but as I worked with it I found the more straight style was way easier to make.
Side question since my barrel was in the last picture. I got the impression from a book that barrels can be naturally browned so I've not polished off the outside of my barrel and left it oil free for these many years in my basement. I see that in parts of it there is a nice brown color developing. Do I need to worry about controlling the amount of rust in the areas that are already brown versus the areas that still need brown? If I try to wipe the brown areas down with oil I feel like I'm probably going to stop the clear areas from browning.
Let me know if my pictures don't work--I know I had trouble one other time before, but I think I got them right this time.
