My trigger job cost $286...

[pamtnman]

Timney trigger cost $132 plus $7 shipping. Gunsmith work was two hours at $75 per hour. Total bill for new trigger in my tang safety RSI .308: $289...
Holy crap.

 

[BlkHawk73]

You did check on the cots beforehand right?

To kinda help your pain, a Kidd trigger assembly for the 10/22 is more. ;) I think I paid $235ish for my Jard.

 

[208packinheat]

Well, an hour with a Dremel tool and you would be money ahead. Even if you had to buy the Dremel!!!

 

[blume357]

I'm not familiar with all this... but why would you buy a trigger group that then needed two hours worth of work on it?

 

[pamtnman]

The bill was much higher than the estimate.

 

[4Sixteen]

For comparison, the Jard trigger kit for my .308 Mk II RSI cost about $80 and installation is DIY easy.

 

[208packinheat]

blume, The actual trigger fits perfectly in the action, requiring only a pin removal, and then the pin replaced and the safety reassembled (my experience with Timney triggers on several Tang Safety M77s), however there is a need to make some inletting mods. Minor by my experience, but some shaving of wood inside the inletting around the trigger cut was necessary. Triggers are excellent however.

I have made the assumption that we are talking about a tang safety gun. The MKIIs are a whole other thing, and should NOT require the mods I spoke of, thus less labor. If I am not mistaking, for the MKIIs it is pretty much drop in for the custom trigger components. In the tang safety it is a whole sale removal of the trigger and other components, and a new trigger "housing" is pinned in.

Notice the "housing" which will interfere with the inletting.

Notice the safety rod shape, requiring some inlet relief on the side of the trigger inletting

The factory stock with the inletting relieved to fit the action back in the stock

Now two hours??? Not by my experience. Sounds like a gunny with a flat rate schedule, developed by an ex General Motors mechanic, worked on the gun. :wink:

 

[1mathom1]

I did my own Timney trigger on my m77 mkII. I did have to make some adjustments for the safety to rotate properly and there was a good bit of adjusting to get the pull as light as I wanted but no slam fires. Took me a couple of hours but I am not a 'smith.

 

[Skalkaho Slim]

Well, done deal and nothing you can do about it now. Any way to ask him why it took that long?

If I ever decide to change triggers, I'll got with a Spec Tech.
http://spec-tech-industries.com/

 

[pamtnman]

My RSI is a tang safety. I was told that the stick required inletting as well as lots of tuning. I did ask why the bill was twice the estimate and that's what I was told. I think you're right: maybe an hour and fifteen in time, but that fifteen turns into another billable hour.
On the plus side, the trigger is really nice, far superior to what it was.

 

[208packinheat]

Well, I like your attitude, and hope that trigger is the plus difference in the big buck or what ever.

 

[pamtnman]

Well, I like your attitude, and hope that trigger is the plus difference in the big buck or what ever.

This gun is coming with me on a ten-day wilderness camping hunt in the Adirondacks. Concurrent buck and bear. It's perfect for stalking, snap shooting. LOVE the tang safety. Wish my Remington 700 30-06 had the tang safety. So fast on the draw. Thanks for the kind wishes.

 

[BlkHawk73]

Hope the hunt brings success and most of all, enjoyment. :)

 

[martyj]

Make sure the new trigger housing isnt bottoming out on the stock. Were the torx bolt holds the housing on.
Changes the bedding in the stock and bows the action.
I bought one that was installed like that and makes them shoot very erratic.
I myself never had a tang safety with a bad trigger on it