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Posted: 4/1/2005 7:16:26 PM EDT
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Alot of us want to have a trigger scale but don't want to spend the money for something we would use only once in a while. You can build a "poor boys"trigger scale. Take a piece of steel rod or even a length of No. 9 wire about 30 inches long. Bend about 2 or 3 inches of it at a right angle at both ends. Next get a large tin can "about a gallon size" and with some light wire or even duct tape fasten one end of the long wire to the can. The 3 inch bent leg goes under the bottom and the long part gets taped or wired along the side. It will look sort of like a long dipper. Take this contraption to the hardware store and weigh it on an accurate scale like they use for nails etc. Record this weight by writing it on the can with a magic marker. Bend a 1/4 inch or so of the other end (not the can end) and put this end through your trigger guard and rest it on the trigger. With a little experimenting you can make the little bend hook onto your trigger and not slip off when you do the following... With the firearm pointing toward the ceiling, and the butt resting on the edge of a table, the can should swing freely being supported only by the trigger. Next add water to the can until the trigger breaks and drops the hammer. Do this several times until you are adding water a drop or two at a time to get the "precise" amount of weight to trip the trigger. Next poor the water into a common house hold measuring cup and that will tell you within a quarter oz. or so of what the water weighs. Add that to the weight of the metal parts and now you have a very accurate measurement of what it takes to, "trip your trigger." ( If this is not enough weight, try a bigger can. But a gallon of water will run about 8 pounds and that should work for most rifles.) It works. have fun... mark223 |
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I use this one: Trigger pull guage Seems plenty accurate for my purpose. |
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