Trigger pulls on shotguns are a whole lot more important than what most people think. You see the
brain calculates the lead based on what it thinks the trigger pulls are and it sends a message to
the muscles to pull. Now if the trigger pulls are lighter or heavier than what the brain expects
then the guns going to go off earlier or later than planned. If it goes off earlier we shoot in
front of the target if it goes off later we shoot behind the target. So having good trigger pulls on
shotguns is really really important. Now adjusting the trigger pulls is really really serious stuff
and only qualified individuals should ever attempt this process. We know that good trigger
pulls make for better shooting because the gun goes bang when you want it to go bang. A lot of
times trigger pulls are pretty hard on guns and sometimes they're not heavy enough. Let's check
the trigger pulls on this gun and see what it is and see if we need to do some work on it.
I've got a trigger pull gauge here we'll check the front one first.
This one's pretty heavy just a little bit over six pounds on that front one,
I've got about six and eight and now let's check the back one
and five and a half on the back one. So we got six and an eight and five and a half and I know you're
going to want to lighten those up so have at it. Okay thank you Larry. Now ideally I would say pull
should be four on the front and four and a half on the back. Four on the front four and a half on the
back. The back one must be half a pound heavier. Finger part is further from the axis of the
trigger, you've got more leverage on the on the sear because of that than you have with the front
one. So if you add them both the same the the back one would actually seem lighter than the front
one. So we've got to take the gun apart again because we've only adjust the pulls on the sears.
So you're not going to work on a hammers your going to work just on the nose of the sears. The
only time I'll ever touch the hammers is if I can't get a heavy enough pull by working
on the sears. It's inadvisable to mess with the bent as it's called that's the notch on hammer
where the sear fits, it's inadvisable to mess with that at all, so concentrate on the sears.
It can be a rather lengthy job regulating trigger pulls because you can get one done in half an hour
and then one might take you two hours. It's it's a question of trial and error and of course if you
you going to keep put it taking it apart put it back together until you get the pull right, but
on the other hand if you get the pull very close I mean you can regard that as correct because I mean
you could spend hours getting down get a pull down a couple of ounces you know. If you were
looking for four and a half pounds with tolerance either side of four and a half? You could I mean
you might hit four and three-quarters. So you think quarter pound each way is what you would
use? I mean the thing you should say they the man who owns the gun he can tell by just firing
it whether it's four and three quarters of four and a half and there again you might get yourself
in a situation where you can spend ages and ages and ages. So we've just tripped the sears,
we've just fired the gun. Now then I release these off the sear spring pins.
Just taking the pressure off of the sears like this to get just to get the sears out.
oh yeah the the back one was what we say five and a half on the back one,
we've got to get a pound off of that. You'll notice it's down to the sear where we have to
work isn't that much it's not very thick and I'm a little diagram over here on the blackboard,
to decrease the pool we're going to reduce the angle of the nose of the sear by taking
it back that way if I wanted to increase the light of the pool I would make it increase
the angle not decrease it in other words make it sharper. This one I'm gonna make
it less sharp so it's easier to pull out of the bent on the hammer. Okay so now I'm
going to try and alter this pull by angling the sear nose or alter the angle of the sear nose.
Now there's that one, I'll do this one the same. This one was five and a half
so lets see if we can take this one down a bit. Put them both back in together and
try them at the same time. If you shorten sears too much you can alter the position
where where they hammer is cocked and also the position of the cocking lever and that
can cause the gun to eject every time you open the gun because you've shortened the
sears too much altering the pulls. I've seen it quite often on certain guns anyway.
Tighten up those, now then, to save putting it back on the stock every time you can do it
this way, but you can put that in there like that put the that pin in there,
we don't need to completely reassemble it to
check the pulls is what your saying, saves a lot of time.
So what do we got there? That one says three and three-quarters and we wanted
that one at four so I think three and three-quarter to be close enough on that,
pretty good job on first try Jack. Four and a quarter and we were looking for
four and a half. How do you do that on one shot? Well I think that one's just gonna be
just great let's go ahead and put it back together and we'll take it out the range.