Yeah, I'd like to hear something on this subject. Never heard of anyone offering this service.  J.D. Steele should know something about this subject --- he is our resident expert on walls.   Ken

There used to be a number of smiths that did this kind of work.  The half cock notch is ground off and a new full cock notch is ground in. Then the mainspring block is filed at a slight angle to increase spring pressure. Lastly the hammer is lightened by drilling holes. There are some good pictures in The Story of Popes Barrels. As for who does the work now I can only suggest A couple of smiths that I would feel good about asking. Bob Snapp would be first on my list. Then I would try Glenn Fewless or Steve Durren I do not know if any of these smiths will do the work as it requires taking out the half cock notch (a safty item) with lawyers lurking in every rathole this may be a deal breaker.

40 Rod

Joe,  I just finished engraving a piece for Bob --  he did a lowall for me and has promised to do a few more lo & hiwalls that I need to get bbl;d and such, I will ask him about doing this work.    Ken

Mr. WillH

I am kind of thinking from the little information we have that you have a problem other than the hammer. The first thing that comes to mind is the stock bedding. Check to make sure that the butt stock screws are tight. Also, it is important that there is a little air between the forend and the action. If there is any question about this (it can be hard to tell with a Winchester) try shooting it without the forend.

The second is firing pin problems. Is it intact and moving freely and hitting the rim in the proper location?

Does the rifle have a set trigger?

Glenn

Will:

" Hell it could be me! Dunno……… "

A real rifleman never blames himself when he can blame  his equipment.


No problem with me, I was just rounding up the usual suspects.

This may seem weird to everybody but Mr. Steele, but when you have it all back together try shooting it without setting the trigger.

Glenn

Adjustable single trigger on an original-style low wall? Would be pretty complicated but I reckon it could be done, but isn't really necessary since your rifle should fire just fine in the unset mode anyway. Walls can be a problem when the unset pull is adjusted below about 16-20 oz, because of the rolling action on the sear during lever closure. Not conducive to retaining sharp sear edges, so be careful.

The unset pull is obtained by A) adjusting sear angles (if needed), B) reducing sear engagement to ~0.015"-0.020" and C) reducing sear spring tension to ~1/3 of the original. Try the pull, if still too strong then reduce sear engagement a little more until you like it.

I am notorious for liking LIGHT triggers but I don't use any wall with an unset pull below 20 oz, for safety reasons.

Also please be advised that I have some very believeable evidence that using the set function on a set trigger will increase group sizes (poorer accuracy) by an average of 10% or more. I personally have fired the better part of 1000 rounds while testing this phenomenon, and have saved the targets to prove it. This was done with a selection of walls with all three styles of wall set trigger as well as several other rifles including bolt actions with several styles of set triggers, Canjar, Anschutz, Kepplinger, etc.

As you can probably tell, I like set triggers A LOT, so it kinda broke my heart when all those old wives' tales proved to be true and my groups opened up when using the set feature. But the proof is in the shooting and the targets don't lie.

I don't care, I still put set triggers on almost all my custom rifles.
Good luck, Joe

Will, you have obviously put many zlotys and a lot of effort into the low wall .22 target rifle.  But I think that the Winchester folks tried to solve the same problem about 1919 and decided that it was easier to just build 52s.  It was not just a marketing gimmick back then.  The factory-new single shot .22 target rifle to beat was a Stevens, not a Winchester.  I shoot a Winder (not at all in the same class as your rifle) as a 4-position rifle and the zero wanders from position to position and except for offhand, the zero is never the same as it is on the bench.

Richard