I posted this on the Daystate web site and now that there is a thread here centered on the Red Wolf and Wolverine, I will throw it out here too.
The Red Wolf is making quite a splash in the Daystate community and it seems the Wolverine "R" not as much. The Wolverine line has been around a while and gone through a number of minor changes with the side lever "R' version being the biggest of them all. The Red Wolf is in a class of its own.
I bought the Wolverine "R" in 177 to match all the other air guns I have. I am comfortable with the 177 platform and really don't need the larger caliber size.
I have a friend who has a "devil may care" attitude when it comes to factory warranties. He also got a new Wolverine R and no matter how much he tried, he could not get the trigger to his liking. It was too heavy for him.
I was at his abode when he decided to do something about it. He took off the stock and without removing the trigger from the receiver, he was able to remove all the guts out of the trigger. He took 1000 and 2000 grit wet and dry sandpaper and polished all the rubbing parts to a gloss shine.
Both of us took a hard look at what makes that trigger fly and realized there are two springs in the rear of the trigger housing that work against each other on opposite sides of the internal bar that the trigger pushes against to release the sear. One spring holds the bar in place while the other pushes it in the trip direction. The "trip" spring fits around the adjustment screw for the first stage take up. The more take up that is dialed in, the more pressure the spring puts on the sear bar in the trip direction as the trigger is moved rearward. The problem is, that same spring also pushes the trigger in the forward direction, thus opposing a lighter trigger pull. When we changed this take up spring to a slightly stronger one, although it made the trigger much nicer, the gun became unstable and would often fire on its own.
We then went in the other direction and found a softer spring yielded an equally good trigger pull. The new spring was no longer pushing the trigger forward as hard. It appears that polishing the moving parts was the main ingredient in getting that trigger to his liking and not so much the assistance that the take up screw spring gave in tripping the sear bar.
The screw that is supposed to be the trigger weight screw (at the front of the trigger housing) seems more to be an adjustment for the position of the sear. As it gets turned in (clockwise), it reduces the area of sear contact. That is why, in the manual, it states, "if the screw is turned in too far, the gun will not cock." You go beyond the sear engagement area by turning it too far in. Keeping the sear at the extreme edge of contact is a dangerous condition.
So after adjusting the sear engagement to more of a locked in position, installing a softer take up spring and polishing the internals to a gloss shine, he banged the gun in many directions and it did not discharge, proving the trigger was safe.
The lighter trigger tightened up his groups considerably allowing the gun to be what it is, a solid straight shooter.