Remington Lee 30-40 kraig Hardest trigger in the world.

[Blindstitch]

Once everything arrives I'll update you guys. Hopefully this remedies the problem because it's a great shooting rifle.

[Blindstitch]

Took apart both bolts that i have to see the difference. Anyone know how many coils are on a stock spring?

The top one is a bolt I salvaged and the bottom is the one in my rifle. Seems to be 3 coils difference and the front are rear edges are filed on mine.



The replacement sear/magazine spring should be here this weekend.
And then here is a picture of the two cocking pieces.
The left one is the one in my rifle and the right one is the salvage. Looks like someone hacked off a bit of the top where you grab it to cock it but the angle where the sear engages looks greater.

[WarPig1976]

What we are looking at is Bubba's first ever attempt at a trigger job.
Did you try the spare parts you have to see if that helped?

[browningautorifle]

Did you try the spare parts

Agreed...even though the other one doesn't look perfect...but it's sure better...

[Blindstitch]

I didn't try the other parts only because they shouldn't make a difference without the right trigger spring. Once the new trigger spring shows up then I'll be able to give it a real test and compare parts. Wish I had a trigger pull gauge.

I did see how to make one out of weights on a MidwayUsa video.

[browningautorifle]

No, you're right. The old fake spring will be a pig. When the new one comes in, you won't need a gauge. It'll be clearly better.

[Blindstitch]

Ok so I got the spring and installed it. It didn't really work.

Well it's a 2 part thing.

With the magazine removed it worked pretty good and knocked the trigger weight down to 12 pounds from a whopping 21. But installing the magazine and the sear doesn't drop below the action enough to fire the rifle.

Not sure what to do I started by altering the spring and if you didn't guess it I broke it. I'm ordering two more right now. The rounded area of the spring was .45 of an inch od. After breaking the spring I took the old odd spring and shaved down the one side that didn't sit in the notch when it was mounted incorrectly and i'm at an 11 pound trigger pull with the magazine in. I'm semi happy with this but really want things to work correctly and in stock fashion.

If for some reason I didn't get a slightly larger spring than needed from Numrich how would I go about remedying the problem of to much spring tension between the sear and magazine catch?

[browningautorifle]

I don't quite follow, the spring for the magazine catch/ trigger should go right in. If it need altering it's not the right one. The cocking piece above shouldn't give huge trigger weight, the old one will because the safety bent is altered with a dremel or something. It's hooped. Kind of hard to follow exactly what's going on here...

[Blindstitch]

I wish I would have taken a picture of the spring before I broke it. I fitted it several times to make sure it was in the correct position but the U shaped bend in it wouldn't compress enough with the magazine locked into correct position. I never even got to swap out the cocking piece because I could visibly see the sear with the trigger pulled not dropping enough for the cocking piece to move forward. I'm just hoping that for some reason Numrich sent me a hair to big spring.

[Blindstitch]

For my temp fix I shaved the big pig wrong spring down on the right side so it would actually slide against the magazine catch piece. Almost seems like a simple solution if no parts were available is to drill a hole on the sear side and magazine catch side, installing a small peg on each piece and just running a light coil spring across the gap.

But since there are parts and they don't cost a million dollars the stock way is the right way.

Next weekend I'll be 300 miles away for a fishing trip with my dad and he owns the same rifle so maybe I'll take mine along and swap out the spring to see if his works any better or if I have a bigger problem I can't see.