Well, I went down to the shop, and dug out a NY Contract lower tang assembly.  I made up a spring that drops the trigger direct pull to about 1 1/2 lb.  I didn't have the size of spring wire I would have preferred, or I could have dropped it to 8 oz; this is what I set the standard springs at.  This will equate to somewhere around 3 1/2 lbs once it's installed in a rifle.  It also won't be creep free, as that would take some finesse to develop correctly, I'd made a thousand or more of the regular springs before I figured out how to do that.  So, it's not as good as my standard spring, but should drop the pull dramatically.

I then took apart my personal NY C rifle, and found that I had made a different solution, probably 20 years ago or more.  Long enough ago that I don't remember doing it.  That solution has a lighter pull, but wouldn't be applicable as a drop-in solution that I could send off to anybody to fix their trigger pull.

That rifle is the first single shot centerfire I ever owned, and I learned a lot from it.  I bought the rifle from Elwood Epps in Canada, he shipped it down to me in a cardboard carpet tube, wrapped in a salvaged piece of upholstery cloth from a piece of furniture.  He included a note that said "the wood was worm eaten, so I threw it away to save postage".  

I cut the barrel off on that rifle, made several parts for it, made my first stock ever, and used it for a while, until the slow twist and 50-70 cartridge got in the way of performance and I rebarreled it to .50 Alaskan.

Anyway, the answer is "Yes, it's relatively easy to make a spring for NY contract rifle to lower the trigger pull".

SchwarzStock wrote on May 7^th, 2021 at 5:05am:


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