It's the easiest trigger job ever...<inside>
I do a trigger job on anything that has a trigger. The mechanism is kind of a pain to detail strip, and it requires removal of the mainspring. I did this anyway, because I wanted to polish the main tube, and spring, and tar it. The result is definitely a quiter gun with a little more solid feeling firing sequence. If you just want a lighter pull on your red ryder, just remove the screws securing the buttstock to the receiver and then take a good look inside at the trigger mechanism. Removing it offers little benefit because it is not really meant to be easily installed and does not offer much to improve upon as far as polishing or geometry. Trust me, I did polish everything and it felt no better than it would have after normal breakin ..(I've had a ton of these bb guns). What you can do though, is get some needle nose pliers or hemostats and pull out the large spring that is between the trigger and the trigger housing. It is the furthest spring back and is the only visible spring while looking through the reciever from the buttstock end. This will bring the pull down from 6 lbs to 2+, which is plenty light for plinking and light target shooting. And to anyone that doesn't feel that the red ryder is an adequate training tool, you must either not have owned one haven't given one a fair chance. It is the cheapest thing you can possibly shoot, is very quiet and quick and esy to cock. You can shoot it non stop for an hour and not have to reload. It will easily shoot into 1" at 15 meters with decent (but still cheap bb's). This is plenty good to learn the fundamentals of hold, breath control, trigger pull, the shooting positions....pretty much all the basics that go into shooting. It was the first rifle like weapon that many shooters learned on including myself. It is easily accurate enought to shoot ritz crackers out of the air at 10 meters, and low powered enough to do so safely in a large open area. Nothing ever taught me to take moving targets as proficiently as spending an afternoon in my grandfather's garden shooting carpenter bees out of the air. The fact that you can see the bb in good light also helps you visualize the trajectory and call the error of missed shots. It's like shooting a tracer every round. In fact, I just went out and shot my red ryder tonight in my back yard. It is still a blast to try to keep a can rolling at 10-20 meters. I certainly couldn't have gone outside at night, in the city I live in, and blasted away with any of my rimfires or centerfires. But with my red ryder I can shoot whenever I want. I do, however, do a trigger job and spring tune on any spring air gun, and all my red ryders have custom fabricated front sights, because the factory front sights don't allow for sighting in past 8-10 meters, and are too wide to make use of the surprisingly decent accuracy of these little plinkers. But, to the original poster, if the trigger and weapon just don't do it for you, get your kids a Daisy 952 and do the trigger job to it. The job is very simple, easily researched, and very effective.
