Crappy marlington trigger

[darkman]

Are there any dealers on this site who can supply me with a decent trigger for my Marlington 45-70 XLT. It is so hard it is almost impossible to shoot it accurately.

 

[Gunoholic]

Are there any dealers on this site who can supply me with a decent trigger for my Marlington 45-70 XLT. It is so hard it is almost impossible to shoot it accurately.

I hear that Ellwood Epps carries the Happy Trigger kit that is made by Wild West Guns in the United States and will install it.
I installed a WWG Happy Trigger kit that I picked up in the states in my Guide Gun and it now has a crisp 3 pound trigger pull.
Night and day difference from the creepy, gritty factory trigger which had a 6 pound pull in my GG NIB.

 

[Hunter1970]

Second vote for WWG Happy Trigger. No more floppy factory trigger. Now crisp and a better weight on my 1895G. Mine came from Brownells. WWG shipped my magazine follower, they might ship their trigger as well.

 

[Gunoholic]

Second vote for WWG Happy Trigger. No more floppy factory trigger. Now crisp and a better weight on my 1895G. Mine came from Brownells. WWG shipped my magazine follower, they might ship their trigger as well.

I also installed the WWG extractor and the stainless steel mag follower from WWG as well as a spring kit from Brownells in my GG.
The WWG follower I got is a bight red color so I can see at a glance whether there is any ammo left in the tube.
The gun shoots like a dream.
I'm pushing 430 grain hard cast lead bullets pretty close to 2000 fps.
Might replace the stock recoil pad with a Pachmayr if I can find the pad and the money to buy it.
The Marlin factory GG recoil pad is pizz poor.

 

[josquin]

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I'm pushing 430 grain hard cast lead bullets pretty close to 2000 fps.

OUCH!!!!!!!!

The Marlin factory GG recoil pad is pizz poor.

No one put it better than Joe d'Alessandro of Realguns, in his article, "Marlin 1895G- reducing felt recoil". Next to a photo of a Marlin 1895 recoil pad he wrote:

This is a picture of a brick, not a great picture but, none the less, a picture. Someone might suggest this looks a lot like a Marlin 1895G factory recoil pad,
but it can't be, because it doesn't flex, twist, compress, or even bounce very high when tossed to the ground.

Hiding within those dark recesses is a .600" vertical stiffening rib. It runs right down the middle of the pad, no doubt to insure those side compression voids
never flatten in use and lose their original shape. The pad's not made of Sorbothane, it could be recycled off- the-road radial tire rubber, but I don't believe
tires are made from compound this hard.
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He has teeth-loosening loads for the 45-70, too. I've pushed 405 gr. hard cast to about 1800 in my 1895 but that's about the limit of my comfort zone, even with a Pachmayr Decelerator on it.

Stuart

 

[darkman]

Thanks guys. Will give Epps a call.

 

[S1nnerman]

I did install the happy trigger on my Marlin 1895 and it is just amazing. Very short travel time and very light. Every marlin owner should install one.