Timney Tactical Trigger

[KEN HARPER]

Anyone have any experience with these triggers? They are considerably cheaper than a Jewell so I bought a couple to try and installed one in a Turbo Action and one in a Hall. I was getting a lot of misfires, weak firing pin hits and erratic ignition. After looking at the bolts in the cocked position I discovered that there was .050 to .075 less firing pin travel with the Timney as compared with the Jewells which apparently was enough to cause the weak hits with the Timneys. Anyone else have this problem or know of a solution (other than going back to the Jewell)?

 

[SooStan]

I have two and never had a problem until two days ago. I was testing some military 223 ammo in a rem 700 and had 2 rds back to back that did not fire. I pulled the bolt and cleaned it. Both rds fired and I had no more problems. I blamed it on hard military primers, but my rifle has a new extra strength firing pin spring. I will keep an eye on this and change back to the factory trigger if it continues. I depend on this rifle.

 

[Lew]

Let me get this straight. You put a cheaper type of trigger on 2 $1000.00 actions just to save a few bucks. WHY. What do you stand to gain. Now you have an issue and need to redesign the trigger. Which is going to cost you more. Why didn't you just stay with a JEWELL and be done. A wise man told me BUY ONCE CRY ONCE, BUY TWICE CRY TWICE. My words to live by.

 

[KEN HARPER]

Lew,

Actually the Turbo action was a little more than $700 when I purchased it. But the purpose of buying the Timney's was not entirely to save money. The Timney's have the feature of having an adjustable trigger shoe which I found appealing and it was no trouble to reinstall the Jewell's which I removed from the actions after the Timney's didn't work out. Additionally I'm sure my center fire friends enjoyed the benefit of getting a couple of Timney triggers for Christmas.