Savage Accutrigger Problems Since Refinishing Stock

[Tony k]

I have a savage 111 in 270 winchester. I refinished the factory original stock, then ended up stripping the trigger guard rear wood screw when I put it back together (common mistake based on review of other threads).

I was in a bit of a hurry to fix it, so I put some superglue in the hole and threaded the screw in. Next day, went out to the range, and started having problems with the accutrigger. Specifically, when you tried to pull the trigger, the inner silver part of the trigger would draw upward about 1/8th of an inch and the trigger would lock.

I took it apart and noticed some super glue had beaded up on the wood just below where the rearmost portion of the trigger mechanism sits. It seemed that the bead of superglue was pushing up on the trigger mechanism causing the failure. I cut the glue out and it SEEMED to fix the problem.

Yesterday I was about to pull the trigger on an Elk. Guess What? Same f-ing problem with the trigger locking up. Granted, it was blizzard conditions and there was snow/ ice packed in to the mechanism. This has been my trusted "go-to" rifle since 2005. It has functioned just fine in similar conditions, but right now I don't trust it.

My guess is that I screwed somethhing up with the way the rifle sits in the stock when I refinished it.

Has anyone else had this trigger lockup problem and successfully fixed it? I'm not gonna spend another three hours slinking up on a herd of elk only to have my rifle fail me at the critical moment. I'm still pissed....

 

[Mike1234567]

Ream out the stripped hole to clean out the super glue. Then whittle some very thing strips of wood from match sticks or whatever and fill the screw hole with those mixed with white wood glue. Make sure the plug is tight. Let dry and cut off the excess at the hole opening. Then drill a tiny pilot hole in the plug (get it centered and angled right). Then put it back together. It should be even stronger than factory. Of course, all this does is fix the damaged screw hole but maybe this is the cause of your other issues? I dunno.

 

[Tony k]

Yep Mike, that's what I shoulda done rather than the half-baked superglue fix I did. Haste makes waste, right? But even if I do that, I think there's still gonna be a clearance issue back there...I dunno either.

 

[Mike1234567]

Don't feel bad about it. I once did EXACTLY the same thing with a pricey/rare antique wooden camera and had to "undo" my F-U. We all F-U sometimes. Try the simple fix that you must do anyway and move on from there.

 

[nastynatesfish]

I'd just spend 100 bucks on a stock from stockystocks. I've only had issue when it was too tight when tightening the action down.