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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 502 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Stevens Model 44 Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 12:42am	Print Post
	Please explain the trigger. Is it a single set ?


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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 502 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #1 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 12:45am	Print Post
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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #2 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 1:51am	Print Post
	I saw that. Yes, I strongly suspect that it is the single set option that was listed for the 44-1/2 for a while. Stevens would fit it to a 44 on special order. I bought one such from a Gunbroker listing about six months ago. This is only the second that I have ever seen. What clues me in is the sharp rearward rake of the trigger. A normal single trigger rests more forward. And the only reason to have the separate lower tang on a 44 is set triggers, double or single. The one I bought needed some TLC. The trigger spring in it was much too stiff. I narrowed it down on a grinder, and now it works quite well. The serial number on my tang is from the 44-1/2 series. The option wasn't popular. Apparently a first iteration didn't work well, so they improved it in some way. And I doubt that the Schuetzen men would have liked it, because you have to release your right hand from the grip to set it. There is a description of it on Pg.46 of the 1907 catalogue.
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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1301 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #3 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 9:37am	Print Post
	Since I see no screw, is it not adjustable? Bill Lawrence


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #4 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 9:46am	Print Post
	Screw runs through the root of the trigger from back to front. Virtually impossible to see it looking from the side. I only know this from looking at mine. I emailed the seller when I first saw it, asking them to try setting the trigger. No response.

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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #5 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 10:11am	Print Post
	Speak of the devil......they just updated the listing. They call it a "forward set trigger" in the revised description. By email to me they report serial number is 8634, once again it is from the 44-1/2 sequence.

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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 838 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #6 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 6:15pm	Print Post
	Too bad Bubba cut a dovetail on top of the receiver. Here's a couple of pictures of one of my 44 1/2's with a single set trigger. With the trigger pushed forward the adjustment screw is visible, with the trigger un-set and all the way back the adjustment screw isn't visible.


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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1240 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #7 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 6:26pm	Print Post
	Yea I saw that dovetail too. Why must people do such things... JMH


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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 502 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #8 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 10:01pm	Print Post
	How well does the trigger work ?


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #9 - Aug 2^nd, 2023 at 10:54pm	Print Post
	As I received it, you could barely set the trigger at all. Took an extraordinary amount of force. After I reduced the spring, it's consistent and won't jar off at something well under 1 pound. (I don't have a trigger scale.) It's not impossible that the dovetail on the receiver was put there by Stevens for some sort of full-length telescope. I wouldn't write it off as some sort of butchery too quickly. This gun was made at a time when the scope blocks that are universal today weren't the usual thing, if indeed they existed at all. I have to admit that I don't understand exactly how this trigger works. I didn't dismantle it all the way, as I should have done. It is awfully simple from what I could see. Maybe somewhere there is an assembly drawing in the Innertubes.

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ten-mile Full Member Offline Posts: 160 Location: Chetek Joined: Dec 8^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #10 - Aug 3^rd, 2023 at 6:17am	Print Post
	I have a set of dimensioned drawings for the single set trigger. I may have found those drawings on this forum. Somehow I have blundered into four 44-1/2s and 044-1/2s with this trigger.


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #11 - Aug 3^rd, 2023 at 6:29am	Print Post
	Four! More common than I thought. Can you email the drawing files to me?

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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #12 - Aug 3^rd, 2023 at 9:55am	Print Post
	Got 'em. I still had to take mine apart to see how it works. Too simple. When you push the trigger forward, the tip of that little spring in front rides over the point formed by the two cuts in that slot on the side. When you pull it, it snaps back over that point, throwing the trigger against the sear.

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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4046 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #13 - Aug 3^rd, 2023 at 10:09am	Print Post
	What I wrote in post #9 is wrong, it wasn't that I couldn't SET it, it was that the set function didn't work at all, and the unset trigger pull was horrendously heavy.

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scharfe Oldtimer Offline A good plan today beats a perfect plan tomorrow. Posts: 502 Location: ny / pa line Joined: Dec 18^th, 2006	Re: Stevens Model 44 Reply #14 - Aug 3^rd, 2023 at 1:48pm	Print Post
	Are these trigger groups interchangeable between a 44 and 44 1/2 ?


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