So, you may have seen in the 22lr thread that my Browning T-bolt, like all Browning T-bolts, has a trigger that lets down what is otherwise an excellent little rifle. At it’s minimum setting, mine was variable and still what i consider to be heavy at 3.6lb to 4.4lb.
Ever since buying the rifle a few years ago, i have been toying with various ideas to fix the trigger with little luck when it comes to a reliable solution. Recently, i became aware of a reletively new offering from JARD triggers in the US, of a range of replacement triggers for the T-bolt that are adjustable from 12oz, 16oz, or 20oz: all solid steel construction, unlike the factory offering with plastic housing and trigger shoe/lever/actuator thingy bit (see pic below). Only hic-cup is that it will cost around $400 to import after current exchange rates, etc: http://www.jardinc.com/browning-1/.
Well bugger. That’s $400 that could go toward my GRS stock for my 7mm08…
So i contact the ‘Trigger Guy’ (LIST: Australian gunsmiths) because i see he has the t-bolt listed on triggers that he works on. Turns out he needs to update his list because he will no longer work them for various reasons (like, he thinks they are a joke) but primarily because he needs the entire rifle to do it right and he now only deals with triggers that can be properly worked with out the rifle or with stock rifles that he has to hand. He won’t accept any general gunsmithing work or handle any serial numbered parts anymore, so don’t bother asking.
Back to the interwebs…
I found a ‘fix’ on rimfire central that some had claimed worked. Aparantly the spring on some rifles rests on a plastic ledge rather than on the adjusting grub screw, preloading the spring to about 4lb. If you shave that ledge back so that the spring rests on the grub screw, it gives you a crisp 2.5lb trigger; apparantly.
Aparantly…
So I’m thinking, well, i have to spend all that cash on a new trigger so i may as well give this a go; if it works i save money, if not, i was going to spend that cash anyway…
Cut to the chase. I frigged around with getting the fiddly bastard apart and tidied up the area in question. I put it back together and tested it… NO FREAKING CHANGE IN PULL WEIGHT!!!
Still variable and still heavy!
So, well, I’m here now and there was another suggestion of drilling another hole in the sear mechanism thingy to accept the spring, thereby lowering preload further. Nope. My drill press hardly removed more metal than the center punch with a new 1mm bit and i ain’t buying a cobolt bit for this fucking…
Well, maybe the sear surfaces need a little polishing… nope, no change… maybe… maybe…
Yep. I kept messing with it and it kept getting worse, not better until…
Well, i went into it thinking I’ll either fix it or fuck it and, you guessed it… she no work no more!
Today I’m applying for an import permit and ordering a trigger from JARD! 
