I personally don't like the BLRs because
the trigger travels with the lever every time you work the action. To me that just doesn't look "right".
My only lever gun ever has been a .307 Winchester and it's an angle eject (94 AE) which means there are no issues with having a scope or shooting open sights.
You'll see mine on the EE right now, but that doesn't mean that I will ever actually sell it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That created the BLRs Achilles Heel, it's less than ideal trigger, that made it a 9.5 instead of a 10.
And it was done to fix a fictitious problem, the mythical levergun finger pinch.
I never jammed my fingers while cycling a levergun yet.
Some BLR triggers are decent and others are gritty and creepy with heavy pulls.
Seems to be potluck where in that spectrum a new BLR trigger will fall.
There are very few gunsmiths who will tackle a BLR trigger.
There is a gunsmith in PA (Neil Jones) who specializes in BLR triggers.
He can get them down to about 3 pounds and crisp but they are still a bit creepy.
A vast improvement though if you were unlucky enough to unbox a BLR with a really lousy trigger.
I buy my BLRs off the rack or from owners who will let me test the trigger with a snap-cap in the chamber.
If the trigger is crappy I move on.
My 2 x BLR 81s have decent triggers.
I wish Browning would abandon the traveling lever assembly and go to a standard lever configuration because the triggers in their bolt actions are really good and there is no reason why BLR triggers can't be equally as good.
