New Airgun

[Mortblanc]

I have had the Benjaman rifle leaning against the wall by the back door for two months now. It has been through three scopes in that time and now has on a red dot. These scopes were all good on other rifles in the fleet, so the problem is not the hardware.

I have a 12 gauge with a sawed off 20" barrel that shoots tighter groups!

The problem is not with aiming, it is with the trigger!

I am not happy with it!

Yesterday I found my trigger pull gauge and discovered why.

The trigger is so bad that it is difficult to describe the exact problem but I will try.

1. the trigger pull is long, like a mile long. Officially known as "excess creep", only it goes past that. It is excess mileage. From sear contact to let off is a full 9mm of trigger travel.

2. the trigger pull is gritty. You drag that trigger for a mile through not sand or mushy mud, but through a field of bounders.

3. the trigger pull is heavy. The pull is often 4 pounds. I could live with a 4 pound pull, but next shot it is 7 pounds, then 5, then 8 1/2 pounds. I say 8 1/2 pounds but my gauge only goes to 8, so it sometimes fires when you bottom out the gauge. It is completely inconsistent from shot to shot.

I am not afraid to take a gun apart, and I took this one down to inspect the problem. There are only three parts; trigger, sear and disconnector, but each part is massive and has its' own leverage points. It also has two separate springs for sear engagement and trigger return, both are massave! The sear bears directly on the moving bolt, engaging a ledge. I stoned those contact parts, no help. In fact, I stoned every contact part in the system and had no improvement.

I am about to do something radical. I will order a set of new trigger parts and springs and set to work with replacements in hand. If I break it the performance might improve!

The POS is unusable as a foraging tool as it is, and that was what I bought it to do.