Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Watts HW97 Trigger Blade
A couple of weeks ago I was looking over a few airguns sites on the web and one that I like to stop in at every so often is Paul Watts page. Paul is a master tuner when it comes to airguns. He has tunes several of my spring guns including my main compeition HW97 and they all shoot great (as long as I keep my grubby hands out of them). Anyone that knows me knows that I love my HW airguns, especially the HW97. I have felt for years that the only real shooting advantage that the TX200 had over the HW97 was the trigger adjustments. The TX had two additional screws in the trigger blade that allows for much finer adjustment of the first and second stages. I worked around it for years but now I don't have to any longer.
As I purused Paul's page I saw that he is now making a setback trigger for the Rekord trigger unit. This trigger reaches rearward a bit more than the standard trigger blade but, and here is the big news, it has the same to trigger adjustment screws in the trigger blade. Now I can set the first stage and second stage travel to whatever I want. I have found this especially useful on my match rifle as now I can have a short first stage and just a hint of pressure on the second stage will fire the rifle while still keeping it safe. I don't know why HW hadn't done this years ago.
I ordered a strait blade trigger since it was going on my match rifle. I also asked Paul if he would turn the face of the blade 5 degrees so that my finger would set more flat on the blade. It arrived at the end of last week and I couldn't hardly wait to mount it on my rifle and give it a try. I didn't have time to get to it until Sunday night.
It was easy to install, just one pin to push out and then back in again. I took the action out the garage to peform my initial adjustments and found that I had turned the sear in too far. I turned it back out and made a few adjustments.It was time to put it back into the stock and try it for real. Luckily I decided to keep the barrel pointed into my trap as when I let off the safety, bang! With the rifle in the stock the rear trigger guard screw assert some stress on the trigger unit and affected the sear engagement. I took the action back out, readjusted the sear somemore and this time I didn't tork down on the rear screw, instead I used a bit more Loctite and just snuged it. That did the trick.
With a few more fine adjustments I now have what feels like a true match trigger on my HW97. I have wanted a trigger like this for a long time and now I finally have it. Pauls trigger also comes with a recessed pull weight screw which I didn't install. The trigger and screw costs $65 but is well worth the money spent. You can visit Pauls page at http://www.paulwatts.netfirms.com/ for more information on the HW setback trigger and the other fine products that Paul has.
As I purused Paul's page I saw that he is now making a setback trigger for the Rekord trigger unit. This trigger reaches rearward a bit more than the standard trigger blade but, and here is the big news, it has the same to trigger adjustment screws in the trigger blade. Now I can set the first stage and second stage travel to whatever I want. I have found this especially useful on my match rifle as now I can have a short first stage and just a hint of pressure on the second stage will fire the rifle while still keeping it safe. I don't know why HW hadn't done this years ago.I ordered a strait blade trigger since it was going on my match rifle. I also asked Paul if he would turn the face of the blade 5 degrees so that my finger would set more flat on the blade. It arrived at the end of last week and I couldn't hardly wait to mount it on my rifle and give it a try. I didn't have time to get to it until Sunday night.
It was easy to install, just one pin to push out and then back in again. I took the action out the garage to peform my initial adjustments and found that I had turned the sear in too far. I turned it back out and made a few adjustments.It was time to put it back into the stock and try it for real. Luckily I decided to keep the barrel pointed into my trap as when I let off the safety, bang! With the rifle in the stock the rear trigger guard screw assert some stress on the trigger unit and affected the sear engagement. I took the action back out, readjusted the sear somemore and this time I didn't tork down on the rear screw, instead I used a bit more Loctite and just snuged it. That did the trick.With a few more fine adjustments I now have what feels like a true match trigger on my HW97. I have wanted a trigger like this for a long time and now I finally have it. Pauls trigger also comes with a recessed pull weight screw which I didn't install. The trigger and screw costs $65 but is well worth the money spent. You can visit Pauls page at http://www.paulwatts.netfirms.com/ for more information on the HW setback trigger and the other fine products that Paul has.
