trigger weight

[lucky]

how do you test the first stage let of on a air pistol like a stehr without releasing the sear on the second stage.is it as simple as checking total weight and subtracting from total weight. if it is i appologize for not srring the obvious.

[Bill Poole]

I made a wire and bucket arrangement out of a tin can and coat hanger. I add bullets to the can and lift the gun, to lift the can and see if the trigger moves and keep adding bullets and until I find the point at which the first stage is taken up, I can count the bullets and weight them along with the can and wire and know the first stage. Then keep adding bullets until it goes POP and then I know the full trigger weight.

155gr Palma bullet is close to 10grams.

its not ISSF approved equipment check technique, but it is a simple way that an average person with household items and tools can fairly accurately measure weights.

of course I am assuming the average person has a reloading scale and a bunch of component bullets sitting in his room, but we shooters have a higher expectation of "average" than non shooters do.

Poole
http://arizona.rifleshooting.com/

Poole