Underclocked said:
Both sabotloader and flounder might want to outline just how they do their "safety testing" after making such trigger adjustments. I know my own "procedure" but would like to see if it is similar.
As an amateur gun tinkerer I don't like messing with the sear engagement so much because I am kind of skeered of it. But I was reading about trigger adjustments some time ago and I read about the sear engagement and how you look through that circular window in the trigger housing to check how much engagement you have there. So I was looking through my triggers and one of them barely engaged at all.
I tested it out by cocking it (unloaded gun) and bumping the butt of the stock down on the cement floor pretty hard. I got it to "fire" so I increased the sear engagement and tried that again a few times and I couldn't get it to do that anymo. I am positive there are better tests but that is what I did. Actually I think that was on a Bold trigger but they work the same as far as I know.
The only adjustment I have made in sear engagement is to increase it cuz I don't want to do anything to make my gun less safe even if I do have a little creep.
Dats all I know about that, now I want to hear what you do UC so I can learn something der. The reason I made the original post wasn't because I think I know a whole lot about adjusting these things, I just wanted to emphasize the safety aspect. I think there's a reason why Knight quit putting trigger adjusting information in their manuals back in the mid 90's or therabouts.
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