Traditions .50 Kentucky

[lonewolf172]

My NEW Kentucky just arrived. Nice. Only issue is a loose trigger. Anyone else had/have the same issue? If you do or did were you able to fits and if you did what did you do OR did you just not worry about it?

 

[Phil Coffins]

The triggers are normally loose, the only worry’s are if they aren’t loose.

 

[Tasbay]

Loose when cocked or uncocked. Flopping around when uncocked isn`t an issue.

 

[lonewolf172]

Loose when cocked or uncocked. Flopping around when uncocked isn`t an issue.

Worse when uncocked but still slightly loose at full cock

 

[Hawken1980]

Mine does it, heck so does my Kibler.
Not and issue

 

[deermanok]

My traditions deerhunter rifle has a sloppy trigger too. It doesn't flop around at half or full cock however.

 

[Zonie]

As was said, the trigger being free to wobble around a bit is a good thing. It means the sear can fully engage the full cock notch in the tumbler when the lock is cocked.
Some people have put a little hair weight spring into their triggers to provide a light pressure on the sear arm and that's OK as long as the spring doesn't produce hardly any force at all. If the added spring makes a lot of force, that can be bad. It can keep the sear and full cock notch from fully engaging.
Some triggers don't lend themselves to having a spring added. If that's the case, it is better to just learn to live with the loose trigger.

 

[lonewolf172]

All of you may be right. I mean it functions as it's suppose to and really not worrisome.

 

[Dillon W.]

Floppy good. Stiff bad

 

[lonewolf172]

I may however see if I can at least get rid of the loose trigger at full cock.

 

[Dillon W.]

I’d spend that time and thought on patch, ball, & powder combination but hey, if it tickles your pickle who am I to say

 

[lonewolf172]

Oh I already have round ball, .490, powder Triple7 FFF and .018 pillow ticking being shipped. Still waiting for .50 cal cleaning kit and 2 Hot Shot nipples.

 

[Dillon W.]

I’ve heard a many a good things about hotshot nipples but they jus flat out did not work well in my gpr. They hang fired like crazy. Every shot. Couldn’t tell you why. But they work fine in my friends rifle and my dads. Who knows