Can anything be done to a Winchester Model 43 trigger to improve it?

[MD]

I got my father's Model 43 Winchester .22 Hornet quite a few years ago after he had a stroke. He had never shot it with a scope. He got three blacktail bucks in one morning in 1970 with it. All legal, he had three tags.

When I got it I scoped it and the first time I took it to the range I tried to shoot it and the trigger pull was so heavy I thought I had left the safety on. I hadn't. I don't know how he could have shot it like that.

I shot that rifle myself as a teenager and I don't recall it being that stiff.

Is there any way to lighten that trigger pull?

 

[TimberPig]

Start with pulling the barrelled action from the stock and cleaning the trigger mechanism out. If you don't remember it being heavy and now it is, likely the trigger is gunned up with old oil and needs cleaning.

 

[ken fowler]

there is but sounds more like a problem need s to be looked at first .dis assemble and look for worn or bent parts before any trigger work.