MCARBO Savage 64 trigger and springs: anyone else try them?

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Just wondering if anyone else has tried the MCARBO Savage 64 replacement trigger and springs:

http://www.mcarbo.com/store/c/32-Savage-Parts.aspx

I installed them last night and have to say that I have mixed feelings about them.

The trigger looks and feels great.

However, I don't think the springs have delivered the performance claimed in the MCARBO installation video. The video shows a trigger pull of 5 lbs 5 oz, but I think that reading is due to how the guy is handling the gauge. My factory trigger pull ranged from 3 lbs 15 oz to 4 lbs 1 oz. I measured it using the water bottle technique (suspend a container from the trigger, fill it with water until the trigger breaks, and then weigh the container and the suspension wire). Doing this 10 or so times with factory springs showed consistent values between the two values noted earlier.

After installing the springs, my pull is down to 3 lbs 12 oz, so a 3 to 5 oz reduction in pull. Their video shows an almost 1.5 lb improvement.

Anyone else have any experience with these? Did you get more of an improvement?
 
Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead but I was planning on ordering this for my 64 also. Just wondering if you've felt like it was worth the purchase or should I just get used to the regular trigger. Thanks!
 
cut a coil off the factory spring and have another go at it, cut a half a coil at a time until you get down to what you want to be at, just remember if you cut to much off you can't replace it, but you can adjust the pull back up with the adjustment nut
 
Can't say much about the Savage 64. But I have the MCARBO Thompson Center Compass Trigger Spring Kit. Made my $400 rifle feel like a $1000+ rifle. They're operating mom and pop style, in a good way. If I got a Savage 64, I'll buy a trigger kit from them in a heartbeat.

YMMV
 
The trigger on my Cooey 64B is terrible; I think the weight of the rifle doesn't fire it. You must be the lucky one who had a good trigger from the factory.
 
I put one of these sets in my 64 last Spring and found it helped a lot. I ordered directly from MCarbo and they sent them within 2-weeks, for me via Montreal then Halifax to New Brunswick. I don't have a gauge , but there was a good reduction. I also polished the sear sides and shimmed the trigger to remove side-play. With a 4x scope I did these 25-yard 10-round groups with various brands. *( I measured these with a digital caliper and changed the pic. The Fed Gold Medal, Fed Champion and CCI-MM all were under 1/2 " - Black pen is Digital numbers. I now have a 3-9x on it but my range is under 2-3 ft of snow and over 1 /2 mile off the road so I'll wait for Spring to re-zero:p I also put the sear spring from MCarbo into my SKS with great results. Comments recently on y-tube for that kit. I also have a thread (on rimfire central.com -https://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1139263) re mag feeding problems that I have solved, with accurate measurements. This will happen to you after a few hundred rounds, lots of y-tube threads of solutions, but I've tried most and mine seems to work most consistently. I now have 6 working mags:cool:
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I put one in my marlin 60, which the stock trigger was horrible in. It brought it from over 7lbs down to a hair over 3. Turned that little marlin from being accurate, into a tack driver. It would shoot between 1/2-3/4" groups with the stock trigger to averaging. 380" groups for the 1/2" challenge.
 
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