Chris Harris of Bullet Central Saved My Shooting Session Today!

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I was at the range today with my shooting buddy, Jim Militello. We were tuning our 6's for about 3 hours when all of a sudden my Bix N Andy trigger stopped operating. Looking at it for a minutes and not having access to the internet where we were, I decided to call Bullet Central and see if they could help me. The gal who answered the phone explained that Chris Harris was not in the office. I figured he was at the Nationals (of course). She took my number and said that she would pass the message along to Chris to call me back. Not expecting a call for at least a few hours, just four minutes later Chris is calling me! Explaining my situation, he instructed me to remove the trigger (facing upward) very carefully so as not to disturb the rifle. He told me to look at the exposed surface of the action where the trigger rests and look for a granule of powder or anything of the size. Low and behold, there was one granule of N133 on the surface right where Chris told me to look. Oh, and this was all being done while Chris was on the phone with me! I reattached the trigger and WALLA! I was back in business! By the way, I cannot for the life of me figure out how that one granule made it into the spot.

Chris Harris saved my shooting session today and I thanked him innumerably on the phone. And, I want everyone who populates this forum to know that he is one heck of a gentleman that is willing to help you until the problem is resolved. I might add that he has excellent instructional videos for the Bix N Andy triggers on YouTube.

Thank you to the 13th power Chris Harris of Bullet Central!


Matt Dardas
 
It's almost like triggers and powder kernals have some sort of magnetic attraction. Great news on your happy outcome.
 
Holy Cow! A kernel of powder. That stuff gits every where........
Benchrest is the coolest sport. Everyone helps out, everyone(I just went through a 5 year slump and everyone was helping)......It's great. Kinda like snow skiing. Or scuba diving....
Why I remember falling down the hill at Snow Summit, CA. And the nicest people stopped to check on me(um, mostly women). It was great. Then I noticed my snow pants were around my knees.....Sometimes ya need more Velcro. Like snowboarder pants....
Oh, I had taken lessons. Those are real dangerous sports.....

Hats off to Chris Harris.

Hey, Matt ya shooting next Sunday at WWCCA?
 
JD Denoff hasn't spoken to me in years but I found a fellow that had something wrong with his rifle and needed a common Benchrest tool. I asked JD to forgive the moment and look to see if he had one....and he did look. He didn't have it with him but he looked just the same.
 
I sat near JD at the IBS Nationals, Holton, MI. He was giving away bolt grease. I mentioned we shoot in the winter up here. Need something for cold weather. He said stop by his trailer....He gave me 2 syringes full. He was corrected. It flowed. Except for the day it was -16°.....
Nice guy.
But, I still heard "Damn Yankees" once or twice....funny stuff.
My Dad used to laugh at that. He told me and my siblings. We were all mutts. French, Hungarian, Irish, and Hillbilly......Just a story, EH.
 
There's a simple solution to the problem of getting a granule of powder between the top of the trigger and the underside of the action thus preventing a multi lever trigger from resetting. Arnold Jewell has recommended this for 20 years plus. You take and mill the slot that the cocking piece rides in extending the slot forward until the top of the trigger bar is open from front to back. I think it was back in 2007 or so that I had this happen to me twice at the Hog Roast. Once on Saturday with a Panda and once again the next morning with a Bat DS. When I got them home, I took the scopes off and removed the trigger hangers. Set the action and stock upside down in the milling machine vise and milled that 3/16" slot forward taking that little web of metal off above the trigger. Do that and you'll never have a piece of powder keep your trigger from resetting. Having as little of the trigger exposed seems like a good idea, but I've seen more problems with powder granules keeping the trigger from resetting than I've ever seen from the trigger bar being exposed.
 
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