Normal factory SXS trigger pull weight?
 

I have a gun at Briley for some choke work and such...see my other thread here. The trigger pulls are heavy and I have asked Briley to clean the action and set the trigger pulls to NORMAL. I did not specify weight of pulls, I do not know what that should be in lbs. Any impute would be welcome...this is a hunting gun and all my other SXS guns are good the way they were shipped. On some factory letters... the person ordering a made for them gun would specify trigger pull weights. Thanks all Kenny

I have often read of trigger pull weights in the range of 3 3/4 to 4 1/2 lbs but I don't recall if those were on game guns or target guns. I do know however that target guns normally have comparatively lighter trigger pull weights.





.

Kenny, trigger pull weights are a very personal thing, one size doesn't fit all -- they all don't come from the factory set at the same weight of pull.

What you need to do is get your hands on a trigger pull gauge and measure the trigger pulls on a couple of your personal guns that you shoot well and feel comfortable with. Then inform Briley of the specific weight you want this gun's triggers set at.

Kenny,

As Dean mentioned above, a good trigger pull weight for a game gun is in the 3 3/4 to 4 1/2 lbs. Usually the front trigger is lighter than the back trigger (i.e., 3 3/4 front and 4 1/2 back). As Greg mentioned it is a personal touch so see what you are use to using now.

On a hunting gun you definitely don't want them to be super light.

Ken

I agree.... 3 1/2 for the front and 4 for the back is a good place to start

I do not have a quality trigger pull gauge...I will talk with the gun smith at Briley when he is ready to do the trigger pulls. I think you guys are correct 3 3/4 and 4 1/2 for hunting gun. I will confirm what Briley suggests...thanks

The English set there triggers @ half the guns weight for 12 GA on the front trigger and up to a half pound less on the rear.

New installations of Miller Single Triggers are set at 4 lbs.

Have never heard of setting the rear trigger lighter than the front. I thought the idea was to have it a tad heavier so that the jarring of the right barrel going off didn't cause the left bbl to go off. This assuming, of course, that the right bbl is fired by the front trigger and that you generally shoot the right bbl first.

Richard, the intent of a lighter rear trigger pull is not to make it lighter, the intent is to make the sear engagement identical to the front trigger. When equal engagement is achieved the rear trigger pulls up to a half pound less because of the increased distance from the axis to the finger pull. In addition to your theory of reasons to increase rear trigger pull, Dan @ MST shared a popular theory there, that since rear triggers have more leverage, pull weight is increased so that it feels like the front trigger. To me this theory is BS and furthermore increasing trigger pulls also increases sear wear.