Friend, in my opinion you are BEST off by going to Princess Auto and blowing an entire two bucks on a decent stone. That, with a nickel's worth of oil, will last you for the next 30 trigger jobs you might want to do.
These are military rifles, both of them. They CAN be tuned, and rather well. Both rifles are designed for a "double-pull trigger". The first pull (the "slack") is very light, couple of pounds at absolute most, followed by the thing almost "hitting a rock": it becomes very solid, very suddenly. It is at this point that the cocking-piece is right at the edge of the sear. You add pressure and VERY little movement and the rifle fires.
Ideally, there should be NO creep and NO gritty feel.
Nice thing about a military trigger is that they are very positive; there is NO accidental letting go. That is an important safety factor.
The Army had all kinds of exercises to teach you the best technique for using the military 2-stage trigger. One of those involved having a friend balance a dime on the front-sight protector while you squeezed the trigger (and it is in fact a SQUEEZE and NOT a pull). You practised until you were able to let the rifle off 10 times in a row without dumping the dime. Then you SHOT it like that.
You would REALLY be surprised how tight your groups can get once you understand how to use the military trigger.
For creep, each of these triggers has a pair of cam lumps. The Mauser one cams the sear downward for the letoff. The Lee-Enfield works with a bell-crank lever system which is extremely simple and very positive.
Either can be tuned very nicely with your stone and a few drops of oil. You can find precise instructions for the Lee-Enfield by clicking on the Stickie at the top of this forum and going to the Lee-Enfield Knowledge Library, where you will find complete Armourers' Manuals telling you exactly how to do it. Similar information is available for the Mausers.
I shoot with nothing but the military triggers and my rifles are doing just fine. But then, I DID spend 2 bucks on a decent stone (hard one side, soft the other) and my chainsaw leaks oil, so I'm home there.
I have used commercial Mauser triggers made by Canjar and by Timney. Both work very well and usually aren't a lot of trouble to install. You can do some super shooting with either one of them. They are expensive, though: the thick end of a hundred bucks. I don't know of a commercial drop-in trigger for the Lee-Enfield.
But if I'm out in the boonies and it's freezing up after a rain..... I want that utterly trouble-FREE Army trigger. And it will be one that I tuned myself.
Hope this helps.
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