Gazz
Member
Greetings, new guy here and I am hoping that somebody can help me with my problem.
A fellow brought a Winchester 100 in .308 into the shop the other day with a safety that would not work. I figured the spring plunger would be missing or perhaps some debris was jammed in there preventing the safety from moving. After taking the thing apart and thoroughly cleaning it, I am convinced that the safety could never work as the gun was designed. There is a little gizmo in the assembly that the NRA take down book calls a trigger lock. This fits under/within the hammer on the same cross pin that the hammer pivots on. The trigger has a long extension on the front of it that just about touches the hammer pivot pin. In order to get the hammer and trigger lock gizmo ( actually a cam sort of thing) installed you have to push the trigger extension down against the trigger return spring since there is no room for the hammer and trigger lock and the trigger extension. When the trigger extension is pushed down, it locks the safety preventing it from moving in either direction. If I leave the trigger lock out, the safety functions correctly but I believe the trigger lock is designed to prevent an out of battery discharge. I certainly do not want to start modifiying or eliminating parts to get get it to work and figure that I am misunderstanding something about the way this thing is assembled. Does anybody have any experience with this trigger assembly? I was able to check out another one and all of the trigger lock parts were not present! Thanks for any replies!
A fellow brought a Winchester 100 in .308 into the shop the other day with a safety that would not work. I figured the spring plunger would be missing or perhaps some debris was jammed in there preventing the safety from moving. After taking the thing apart and thoroughly cleaning it, I am convinced that the safety could never work as the gun was designed. There is a little gizmo in the assembly that the NRA take down book calls a trigger lock. This fits under/within the hammer on the same cross pin that the hammer pivots on. The trigger has a long extension on the front of it that just about touches the hammer pivot pin. In order to get the hammer and trigger lock gizmo ( actually a cam sort of thing) installed you have to push the trigger extension down against the trigger return spring since there is no room for the hammer and trigger lock and the trigger extension. When the trigger extension is pushed down, it locks the safety preventing it from moving in either direction. If I leave the trigger lock out, the safety functions correctly but I believe the trigger lock is designed to prevent an out of battery discharge. I certainly do not want to start modifiying or eliminating parts to get get it to work and figure that I am misunderstanding something about the way this thing is assembled. Does anybody have any experience with this trigger assembly? I was able to check out another one and all of the trigger lock parts were not present! Thanks for any replies!
