Hey guys, I never get out of the 10/22 Action section and I’d completely missed this!
Yes, this hammer and sear is my/Brimstone’s invention after a decade of doing 10/22 trigger jobs and installing everyone else’s kits. The issue we ran into with everyone else, and when we are doing trigger work, is they reduce the pull weight by reducing the depth of sear/hammer engagement, and trigger return spring force. But the geometry was wrong so we would end up with a trigger that could ONLY be installed in a polymer housing, or a trigger that wasn’t long term reliable, and that tended to have a sluggish reset.
We designed this trigger to be a drop in 1lb trigger, in any trigger housing, and we were successful. It has completely new and proprietary sear/hammer geometry; a theory I had that paid off beautifully!
But when we started running drop testing, the trigger return spring was too light to prevent firing with the safety off. Simply a side effect of a light trigger where there is very little pressure on the sear/hammer engagement, which is what you want for reliability and consistency long term. So we added the much heavier trigger return spring this kit ships with. Drop test safe, under 2lbs, and it is the best steel target trigger in existence today because it’s still light, incredibly reliable, with a stupid fast and positive reset. Easily the best on the market.
But it’s not the benchrest trigger I was expecting it to be. Now, IF YOU MESS with the trigger return spring and then drop a loaded gun with the safety off, there’s a good chance the gun will fire. So consider yourselves warned. But lets just say that if you went with more traditional torsion spring materials, the results will rival a Kidd two stage.
I actually made a video that I haven’t posted up yet, giving back to the RFC community, because this torsion spring is the ultimate evolution of the Bobby pin trick invented here in this forum, then picked up by Skeeter (for those of you goIng back that far) inherited by Brimstone, and now refined a little further by the brilliant minds over at TandemKross. And for you tinkering types, which is the core of this forum, the Brimstone hammer and sear has a TON of potential!
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