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Wild West replacement triggers?

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#1 ·
Hi,
I am looking to install a wild west trigger on my Marlin 444. Does anyone have any tips on the installation of these triggers? How do you like it compared to the factory trigger?

Foolproof
 
#2 ·
Foolproof said:
Hi,
I am looking to install a wild west trigger on my Marlin 444. Does anyone have any tips on the installation of these triggers? How do you like it compared to the factory trigger?

Foolproof

I've wondered the same thing. You might want to check out marlin owner's website, http://www.marlinowners.com/board/
Someone over there might have put one in. I have heard its a great improvement over the stock one. I wonder how it could help your accuracy
 
#7 ·
Have some patience and a little time take it apart thusly, remove the butt stock. Remove the lever and bolt and extractor as if you were going to clean. Now push the retainer clip for the mainspring left or right holding firmly as the spring has pressure and can shoot the spring a goodly distance if not constrained. Now remove the screws holding the lower reciever and trigger assembly. Once out, drift the pin holding the trigger, watch the trigger spring there is some pressure on it albeit not much. You are now ready to install the happy trigger, just reverse the procedure. While you are doing this you should consider doing a little polishing on the wear spots on your bolt, lever and lifter. Use a good oil stone or some small grit emery paper. Fine grit nail files help in some tight spots. The most often overlooked spot to polish is the face of the lifter that rubs against the cartridge case head in the magazine as this causes some cycling pressure the better the polish the easier the cycle is. You may want to polish the lever screw, and trigger pin and hammer screw. Then lube with graphite the kind used for locks light amounts of course.
 
#10 ·
I have done this trigger job and it works good. 3lb pull on the button every time and the trigger does not flop around any more.

The hammer / shear is broached and had tool marks along the shear surface (I looked at it with a microscope). A fine diamond stone took care of the surface, keep it square and flat. The shear engagement surface has to engage the trigger surface fully. This will give you a consistant trigger pull and the creep down to a minimum.

This made my rifle shoot better than I can :D. 3 shots 3/4 inch @ 100yds. The 4th or 5th shot always has a flier (Microgrove barrels will do that) to about 1 1/2 inch. still OK for me. Pull a bore snake through it and the next 3 are back to 3/4 inch.

Good luck with the trigger job.
 
#12 ·
I just got my 1895G with Scout Scope back from my gunsmith. I had him put in the Wild West Happy Trigger, and slick everything up. The trigger pull is right at 3 lbs, with no wiggle. Everything is nice and SMOOTH. Everything is just as described in the above posts. I probably won't have a chance to try it until this coming weekend - weather permitting. I'll let you know how it shoots. I think I'll have my 1895 Cow Boy done the same way too.
 
#13 ·
As I recall, putting on the WWG trigger on my 1895CB wasn't rocket science. If you have a reasonable amount of mechanical ability, it shouldn't be a big deal. The directions given in this thread seem pretty straight forward and simple.
 
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