mcb
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So my nearly 40 year old 10/22 got a trigger upgrade today. One of the few original parts left in the old gun but it finally got upgraded too.
I went with a Volquartsen HP Action Kit. I did not want to replace my trigger housing with the very afordable Ruger BX one since my 10/22 is old enough to still have the metal (aluminum) trigger housing rather than plastic. The HP Action Kit for $118 seemed a good deal (combined with my own metal trigger housing) compared to some of the full trigger housing from Volquartzen, Timney, or others for what I was hoping was going to be a good trigger.
I measured my existing Ruger trigger and it came in at a moderately stiff, slightly creepy but reasonably smooth 6lb-7oz using a Lyman digital trigger gauge
Installing the new parts was a fairly easy and straightforward task that took about 30 minutes to complete. There is nothing tricking or difficult with a 10/22 trigger except maybe replacing the hammer spring in the hammer spring sub-assembly but a good bench vice and tough fingers made fairly short work of that.
The good: Easy install and the trigger pull is now about 2lb-2oz. And with the adjustable overtravel stop very little over travel.
The Bad: The difference between the first stage and second stage is not large enough so you don't get a good crisp wall at the start of the second stage. There is a fair bit more creep in the second stage than I was expecting from a Volquartsen, its very smooth but not that much less creep than the factor trigger.
For those of you that have installed one, how much better are the pre-assembly complete replacement assemblies from Volquartsen, Timney or similar vs Ruger Triggers?
The real test will be getting some rounds down range with it and see how it shoots. Unfortunately I am not likely to get to the range before the next match. Nothing like taking an untested fire-control to a match, next weekends NRL22 match should be interesting.
I went with a Volquartsen HP Action Kit. I did not want to replace my trigger housing with the very afordable Ruger BX one since my 10/22 is old enough to still have the metal (aluminum) trigger housing rather than plastic. The HP Action Kit for $118 seemed a good deal (combined with my own metal trigger housing) compared to some of the full trigger housing from Volquartzen, Timney, or others for what I was hoping was going to be a good trigger.
I measured my existing Ruger trigger and it came in at a moderately stiff, slightly creepy but reasonably smooth 6lb-7oz using a Lyman digital trigger gauge
Installing the new parts was a fairly easy and straightforward task that took about 30 minutes to complete. There is nothing tricking or difficult with a 10/22 trigger except maybe replacing the hammer spring in the hammer spring sub-assembly but a good bench vice and tough fingers made fairly short work of that.
The good: Easy install and the trigger pull is now about 2lb-2oz. And with the adjustable overtravel stop very little over travel.
The Bad: The difference between the first stage and second stage is not large enough so you don't get a good crisp wall at the start of the second stage. There is a fair bit more creep in the second stage than I was expecting from a Volquartsen, its very smooth but not that much less creep than the factor trigger.
For those of you that have installed one, how much better are the pre-assembly complete replacement assemblies from Volquartsen, Timney or similar vs Ruger Triggers?
The real test will be getting some rounds down range with it and see how it shoots. Unfortunately I am not likely to get to the range before the next match. Nothing like taking an untested fire-control to a match, next weekends NRL22 match should be interesting.
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