ok so i bought my dad a marlin 917 17 hmr for fathers day and the trigger is a little heavy im just wondering if anyone out there makes a new trigger for the 917 or if there is anything i can do to make the trigger feel a little less like sliding cement across the asphalt road outside my house
marlin 917
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cz452shooter
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Take a look at this thread 
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111868
Here are the details basically:
1. Find a lighter trigger spring. This spring only needs to reset the trigger and can be pretty darn light.
2. Make the sear spring heavier. I've used a shim under the spring, and a 2nd spring around the first. A bit touchy to get right, but will really help to drop the pull weight.
3. Reduce the total sear engagement between the trigger and sear. Easiest way is a small shim that you can super glue to the side of the trigger, but there are other methods. Too much shim and the sear cannot catch and hold the striker when you close the bolt but if you use brass or aluminum for the shim, not to difficult to trim with a file untill you've got a reliable catch of the striker. There are other ways to reduce the engagement, but this is the easiet I've found.
4. You can gently stone the top of the trigger and it's mactching surfact on the sear. Must be VERY gentle, and carefull not to remove too much metal, or change the angles or the trigger will unsafe in a hurry. All you really want to do is remove any roughness left over from the original machining process, not to remove any real amount of the mating surfaces.
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Here is the Seer spring. If you replace it with the heavier factory trigger spring it will really help - just takes some tuning to get right (You have to cut down the spring until the bolt comes out)
Good luck
Jordan
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111868
Here are the details basically:
1. Find a lighter trigger spring. This spring only needs to reset the trigger and can be pretty darn light.
2. Make the sear spring heavier. I've used a shim under the spring, and a 2nd spring around the first. A bit touchy to get right, but will really help to drop the pull weight.
3. Reduce the total sear engagement between the trigger and sear. Easiest way is a small shim that you can super glue to the side of the trigger, but there are other methods. Too much shim and the sear cannot catch and hold the striker when you close the bolt but if you use brass or aluminum for the shim, not to difficult to trim with a file untill you've got a reliable catch of the striker. There are other ways to reduce the engagement, but this is the easiet I've found.
4. You can gently stone the top of the trigger and it's mactching surfact on the sear. Must be VERY gentle, and carefull not to remove too much metal, or change the angles or the trigger will unsafe in a hurry. All you really want to do is remove any roughness left over from the original machining process, not to remove any real amount of the mating surfaces.
________________________________________________________-
Here is the Seer spring. If you replace it with the heavier factory trigger spring it will really help - just takes some tuning to get right (You have to cut down the spring until the bolt comes out)
Good luck
Jordan
southwest maddog
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- Narrow Ranch
I put a rifle basix trigger on my 917. It is very light now and I can shoot well with it but I cannot use my safety. If I do move my safety on and off it will cause the rifle to discharge when the bolt is closed. They say on the rifle basix directions that use of the safety after installation could cause problems. It does.
