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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 912 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Pondering Stevens set triggers May 14^th, 2025 at 12:56pm	Print Post
	Any thoughts on the practicality of a set trigger conversion in a Stevens 417 Walnut Hill? Mine has a let-off of 3 pounds. Kind of surprised me as it's nice and crisp and I would've guessed it to be less. Shooting with set triggers on other rifles has me spoiled, I guess, and I find myself pondering this as I sit here enduring a depressing extended rainy season. I'll guess that in the event it can be accomplished through ingenuity and perseverance the final hurdle would be space in the trigger guard if double-sets are on the menu. (Closed loop lever in my instance.) Single set?


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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 996 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2025 at 1:23pm	Print Post
	Since your 417 has the loop lever I am going to guess that your rifle is an early 417 without the speed lock hammer. A 417 with the speed lock hammer has an extra strong mainspring, and the hammer fires from where the half cock notch would be on a model 44. My 417 is an early one also,and doesn't have the speed lock hammer. I believe that the later 417's have an adjustable trigger,a screw that adjusts the creep out mainly, I would guess. A newer speed lock hammer and a new style trigger might solve your issues if you could find those parts.


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 912 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2025 at 2:35pm	Print Post
	Interesting. Mine does have the speed lock arrangement. Anecdotally, it was off-putting when I first got it. "Good Lord, why won't this thing stay on full-cock when I pull the hammer all the way back?" Haha!


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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 996 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #3 - May 14^th, 2025 at 7:25pm	Print Post
	I was confused with my 418 walnut hill jr, which has the speed lock hammer when I bought it 20 plus years ago. I couldn't figure out why the trigger pull was so horrendous,and would lift the hammer on full cock when you pulled the trigger. Does your 417 have the trigger adjustment screw?


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John Taylor Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1768 Location: Lewiston, ID Joined: Oct 23^rd, 2006	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #4 - May 14^th, 2025 at 8:12pm	Print Post
	Might be a fun project to make a set trigger for one. Instead of having two trigger you could have a single set, push the trigger forward to set.

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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2138 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #5 - May 14^th, 2025 at 11:53pm	Print Post
	Or I could really trip you up with drawings for some close couple triggers. I think one of our versions would work in a Stevens...

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 912 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #6 - May 15^th, 2025 at 10:40am	Print Post
	GT wrote on May 14^th, 2025 at 11:53pm: Or I could really trip you up with drawings for some close couple triggers. I think one of our versions would work in a Stevens... That would certainly obviate the need for creating more room in the trigger guard, no? PM inbound.


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cheatin_charlie Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 385 Location: ohio Joined: Jan 10^th, 2009	Re: Pondering Stevens set triggers Reply #7 - May 15^th, 2025 at 11:50am	Print Post
	Unless you have an action that came with double set triggers you would have to mill out the action for the trigger plate unless you had a better idea.


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