After-Market Triggers

[Paparock]

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[gunnut69]

Jewel, Shilen, Canjar and Timney are likely the best and largest makers. I know of no one that makes a safety on the left side but give them a call, I am far from totally current..

[jpsmith1]

I have a Timney that I installed on a rem 700.  I LOVE it.  As far as the safety issue, I thought that I was the only one that felt that the safety was on the wrong side of the rifle. I'm a lefty and use right handed rifles, so I noticed it pretty quickly.

Never seen one that works 'right' though.

[Paparock]

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[Nobade]

Well, LH Remingtons have the safety on the left side and properly tuned there's absolutely nothing wrong with a factory 700 trigger for use in a hunting rifle. Also, Savages have the safety in the middle so it doesn't matter if it's RH or LH. And the Accutrigger is no slouch either.

[ScoutMan]

In Jeff Cooper's book "Art of the Rifle", he discusses both thumb positions and the value of each. IF you are military, you probably learn to shoot the M-1 with the thumb on the right side in order to get a proper cheek weld.

To each his own.

[jpsmith1]

The safety issue was a great topic of discussion among my friends years ago.  I was under the believe that the safety on MOST rifles are on the wrong side.  They require you to rel;ocate your thumb for a comfortable shooting grasp.  I suppose that you get used to it after thousands of repetitions as you can almost anything, but in a perfect world, I still believe that the safety is on the wrong side of the rifle.

I have very little experience with tang safeties, all of it bad.  My buddy's Mossberg 835 required quite a lot of stoning while still new just to make the safety work with any kind of smoothness.  It also hung up a lot in the early days of his hunting with it.  Never had a problem with a rifle safety or a crossbolt safety, which, by the way, is made properly to bring into action as fast as possible.

[georgeld]

I've only been shooting since about the late 50's, so don't have too much experience.

But, the gun I grew up with an old 1917 Enfield, to me, that's the only and best safety that's
reliable.  Anyone can tell it's position.

AND no way to knock it off that I've found.

There might be better nicer guns, but, that safety is the reason I'd rather rebuild one of these
actions than buy a new gun of any kind.

Far as unhandy.   Only thing I can say is: practice, practice, practice and practice some more
until you can do it without thinking on the way to the shoulder.

Same thing goes with a scope.  Lot's of shooters have a problem with scopes. All it takes is LOT's of
practice.  Keep at it and you'll get it figured out.

Wish you all well this new year,

George