American Airguns Blog
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Stock interference with the trigger
A few years ago I bought a DaveG stock for my HW97. It is the maroon HW97 ProHunter stock shown on his site (http://www.davegcustomstocks.com/hw97mainpage.html). Dave make wonderful stocks and I really like this particular model. I had my #1 HW97 in it for a long time but didn't shoot it much.
I pulled it out of the closet last month to shoot it at the Good Old Boys FT match. I decided to put my #2 action in this stock to shoot the match since it is a bit more accurate, but after stripping out the front stock mount I put the #1 action back in and sited in.
While the action was in my Macarri target stock and I adjusted the trigger and it was shooting nicely. After putting it in the ProHunter stock it shot well but the trigger seemed to be less consistent. I initially thought it was because I had swapped the powerplants between my two HW97s and the new powerplant had a bit more power. However, last night I found out the real reason.
I got my #2 action back from David Slade at Airgunswerks (http://www.airgunwerks.com/) after he fixed the stripped front stock mount and put it into the ProHunter. After mounting the 2 stage trigger suddenly became a single stage trigger and was pretty heavy. That wasn't right.
I figured that the trigger was contacting the stock somewhere so I removed the action from the stock and sure enough, the rear of the trigger housing was rubbing the rear inletting of the stock. So I got out my Dremel tool and opened up the rear of the inletting and widened the rest of the trigger inletting as well to give it plenty of room to breath. I thought that should take care of it but I found that the front of the inletting was also contacting the front of the bottom sear arm. After a few more seconds with the Dremel that problem was eliminated.
Now the trigger is free of the stock and work fabulously. This can be a problem with any custom stock and this stock was made without the aide of having an HW97 action to check it, so I can't blame DaveG. I should have thought of checking it with my action when I first received the stock. I had a similar problem with a CS800 stock I recently purchased from CustomStocks. I love the DaveG stock and I am glad that it is now ready to shoot!
I pulled it out of the closet last month to shoot it at the Good Old Boys FT match. I decided to put my #2 action in this stock to shoot the match since it is a bit more accurate, but after stripping out the front stock mount I put the #1 action back in and sited in.
While the action was in my Macarri target stock and I adjusted the trigger and it was shooting nicely. After putting it in the ProHunter stock it shot well but the trigger seemed to be less consistent. I initially thought it was because I had swapped the powerplants between my two HW97s and the new powerplant had a bit more power. However, last night I found out the real reason.
I got my #2 action back from David Slade at Airgunswerks (http://www.airgunwerks.com/) after he fixed the stripped front stock mount and put it into the ProHunter. After mounting the 2 stage trigger suddenly became a single stage trigger and was pretty heavy. That wasn't right.
I figured that the trigger was contacting the stock somewhere so I removed the action from the stock and sure enough, the rear of the trigger housing was rubbing the rear inletting of the stock. So I got out my Dremel tool and opened up the rear of the inletting and widened the rest of the trigger inletting as well to give it plenty of room to breath. I thought that should take care of it but I found that the front of the inletting was also contacting the front of the bottom sear arm. After a few more seconds with the Dremel that problem was eliminated.
Now the trigger is free of the stock and work fabulously. This can be a problem with any custom stock and this stock was made without the aide of having an HW97 action to check it, so I can't blame DaveG. I should have thought of checking it with my action when I first received the stock. I had a similar problem with a CS800 stock I recently purchased from CustomStocks. I love the DaveG stock and I am glad that it is now ready to shoot!
