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need ideas on how to improve trigger pull

5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
edited February 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have a Rem 581 with what appears to be a non adjustable trigger. Currently the pull weigth is about 5-6 lbs. I would like to have it at half that. Any ideas on how to best accomplish it?
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  • 5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ideas? thoughts?
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  • 5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    nononsense can you help?
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  • carbine100carbine100 Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have not played with one of those yet. I have a smith that handles anything that is not readily decipherable to me.
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  • 260260 Member Posts: 1,133 ✭
    edited November -1
    i know how to do it.e-mail me and give me your contact#
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    5mmgunguy,

    Sorry, I've been laid up the last few days.

    You should check with Brian Voelker in Iowa who works on these first. Someone who understands and works on these triggers is worth their weight in gold.

    581s are similar to 540 target rifles but with a nonadjustable trigger. There is only a single trigger mainspring and the folks that I have spoken with suggest that this can be replaced with a lighter spring to improve the weight of pull. In this same vein, light polishing will help this also. Be aware that on non-adjustable triggers, the geometry will change if you attempt to remove material. You can create a dangerous situation or ruin the trigger at the least. I don't recommend this to the the general population due to lack of experience, so be careful.

    This is not my area of expertise but you can also look into a couple of other triggers that might be substituted, factory target triggers made for 540/541s fit 581s.

    BRIAN VOELKER GUNSMITH

    Address: 2878 170TH AVE RYAN, IA 52330 USA
    Voice: 1-319-932-2570 Fax:
    URL: http://www.your-domain-name.us
    Contact: BRIAN VOELKER

    You can ask JC also but this may not be on his list:

    JC Blauvelt
    http://www.jcbgunsmith.com/

    Best.

    ADDED:

    tsr,

    It's been going on for the last 1-1/2 months. I got a face full of dust while cleaning the shop and it had a bad mixture of stuff in it. I hadn't intended on getting into the places I ended up so I didn't have a mask on as I usually do. Dumb. Breathing is a little rough but it seems to be improving slowly. I had a relapse the other day and couldn't do much at all.

    Best.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    5MM,

    Follow Nononsense's advice, and get someone who is noted for their work on these. It will pay dividends in the end, and you will still have something usable.

    Nononsense,
    Hope that is because of a recoil headache, and not the flu, or something worse. In any case...we missed your wisdom!
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Playing with trigger pulls often affects and disables safeties.
    After you have the trigger pull fixed or replaced with a target trigger,
    pull the trigger with the safety on then release the trigger.
    If the hammer falls by itself or if you can jar it off, you have an unsafe rifle that need work on the safety.
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