Ten Double John Val Val A. Automatic Samples Browning Browning September 7, 1954 In shooting these guns so far the functioning with light and heavy loads leaves very little to be desired. However, as I mentioned in my cable to you, the trigger pulls on each of these guns are in excess of 7 lbs. The lead weights I have fer measuring trigger pulls cannot measure in excess of 7 lbs. Gun No. 769A (this is the receiver serial number. None of the serial numbers on the barrels correspond with the numbers a pull in excess of 7 lbs., and in addition it had a very After snapping the hammer I weighed the pull necessary on move the sear and the hammer down, found it took Of course, in excess one cannot of 4 lbs. expect on receivers )had disagreeable drag. the trigger to to move a 4 to 45 lb. the sear pull with if the sear spring alone weighs 4 lbs. Now it may be that there was a reason for making the spring so strong, but if so, then the wrong remedy was applied for whatever malady existed because we cannot sell guns of that quality with trigger pulls in excess of 5 lbs. Upon taking the gun apart, I found that the top of the connector rubbed on the bottom of the slot in the link when the trigger was pulled, which accounted for the unpleasant drag. To avoid a complicated setup for reemachining the slot or notch in link, I filed off the top of the connector about .025 inches where it rubbed. This took out the drag and made a crisp pull. I then examined the sear spring and sear spring guide and found the latter has a relatively long head. I do not yet know why, but to avoid cutting off coils from the spring, I shortened this head from .752 inches to .556 inches (I sawed it off and reshaped it in a lathe, and it turned out to be the latter length), then reassembled the gun, and it had a real crisp pull which weighed just barely over 4 lbs. I have fired several hundred rounds in different guns on which I have: made the same modification to the spring guide head with no apparent trouble, so I asked myself why the head was so constructed and the spring so strong. The first gun I tried with the above mentioned serial number was the only one on which the connector rubbed in the notch in the link, but this was one too many. Trigger pull is elementary and should be an inspection point by our inspectors. Do we not weigh all of the pulls on our other guns? On one jobs. of: these guns The in the Slightly holes off direction in disassembling prize repair stock for the buttplate I found screws had been drilled so that when place one of screwed one into of those edge the