Just saying but I don’t mess with triggers anymore because of my nerve damage plus I need to have a bit harder pull so I can feel it with my numb finger ers but can’t a person spend some time and polish the trigger parts with compound like we can do with the Glock and AR to get a smoother pull without spending the money on drop in trigger assemblies. I have never really looked at the trigger assembly in any of my airguns so I don’t know if that’s a option or not and I don’t plan to being I really can’t do anything to them except increase or decrease poundage and travel, that’s as far as I go now with triggers.
I need to leave all the tinkering up to you guys and go from there.
Thanks for the comments on the topic Jim. I do need to preface my comments above, and any following to be very clear on one point: the current RAW trigger is a very good trigger, and can be adjusted to be a very well functioning trigger indeed-fully up to the tasks of the shooter. With that said, the difference between the RAW trigger and an Anschutz can be noticed (primarily in creep at the point of seer release) by someone who's shot thousands of rounds through an Anschutz, shooting 10m practice and matches. I made similar comments to Mark B when I met him last month at his place near Phoenix and he at first was insistent upon the fact that the RAW trigger could be adjusted to be the same as an Anschutz. He pulled out his Tubb gun for me to play with, and feel-pointing out the fact that it has an actual Anschutz trigger (5018 variant for centerfire rifles-perhaps the 5100 version, not sure). The weight of the Anschutz was set higher than the RAW trigger, but in either case, when I challenged him to sit there and really evaluate the creep, he backed off the claim just a little. We both agreed that the RAW trigger is INDEED a very fine trigger-Martin's done a great job with it. But the literal glass like break from holding at the second stage to *zero movement, fall off the cliff* break of the Anschutz trigger was notable when splitting hairs.
Yep, I'm a trigger snob-fine, I can handle that. But I've also spent countless hours with an Anschutz on my shoulder, enjoying the glass-break of that trigger-it's basically haunting how good it is. If I could pay money to get that experience into my RAW, I don't think I could find anything else that I would ever want in an air rifle.
And yes, to answer the first question that will be asked: yes, I DO notice that slight, tiny amount of creep in my RAW occasionally-most times, I just ignore it and it's fine for shooting. Other times (and at different temps), I have paused, mid-shot, and noticed I'm right in the middle of the creep I'm describing. Yep, I've adjusted it back and forth-a lot and can't get it fully gone (without making the trigger seer unstable-like losing the wall).
I can deal with a higher trigger pull weight-no problem. But I really want that glass like break as the seer releases with absolutely zero movement (none whatsoever) that an Anschutz gives.
But I digress.
I say all the above because 90+% of the shooters in this thread (Mark included, I'm certain) will simply say the RAW trigger is good enough. I am one of those snobs who does notice the difference, and would pay money to get 'the real thing'.
I hope that context is helpful...
Sean