Ruger 77/50 Trigger Issue

[slowr1der]

So I bought a Ruger 77/50 from a friend a few days ago. I took apart to clean it, cleaned the barrel, pulled the pin out of the sear and cleaned it out all around that and the bolt stop, etc. Just gave it an overall cleaning, put it back together and every time I close the bolt it fires. I've read the threads about the sear wearing on these especially with the 209 kit installed, but this still has the breech plug for #11 caps.

Anyway, I took it back out of the stock to see what was going on and when it is out of the stock it works perfectly. I can close the bolt as hard as I want and it doesn't trip the trigger. Once I put it back in the stock and tighten the rear stock screw down it starts having the issue again. If I leave the rear stock screw loose it works perfectly as well, but once I snug it back down the issue starts. I don't see the stock pushing on the trigger anywhere, so I'm just at a complete loss. Does this sound like the common issue with the sear on these, or do you all have any other suggestions? It's leading me to believe it's not the sear since it works fine out of the stock. The only sear I can find for sale is the Timney for $45, so I hate to spend that much just to test it. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[ridgerunner1965]

mine had a very similar problem. the trigger got lighter and lighter until you could just bump the butt on the shooting table and it would fire.

I took it apart and really couldn't find anything wrong with it.i will admit I didn't try real hard as I had a good local guy that had fixed guns for me before rather cheap.

when I picked it up he said it was a easy fix but really didn't go into exactly what he did.i do know he didn't purchase any new parts.

it has worked fine for several years now.