As many of you know, and I have stated it many, many times on here, that I perfer my Glenfield Model 25. Since having it and shooting it since about 1980 or 81 to present and this is myself, my son, and my dad shooting it, the trigger has never really broke in. So I decided to look into how hard it would be to liten the trigger pull a bit.
So with that decision I called in big shrek to see if he had ever done anything with a Glenfield Model 25. He refered me to the Rimfire Central webpage, and from there I started diggin. I found out that the Marlin 925 and the Glenfield 25 are simular. So finding a youtube video on doing a trigger job on the Marlin 925, It looked pretty simple. One screw holds the trigger assembly in, and take out the bottom pin (but be carefull that you do not lose the little sear spring when taking out the bottom pin), and replace trigger spring and just dry fire and bump test the rifle for premature fireing. Ok, so far so good, simple, even I can do this and remember it, and won't have to take the computer and watch the video for this. Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Well when I got into it on the Glenfield Model 25 there is not a trigger assembly with one screw holding it in place. See blow pics.
Aaawwwwwww dam. Ok headache time, have to figure this out. I took the pics and sent them to OJH. And I told him what the video showed and sent him the youtube video. And asked him what do you do with this? OJH is so laid back with this stuff and I'm freakin out on the other end. So OJH sends me an email back and the first thing he says is "boy them pictures are big" LOL. Now that is what I am waiting to hear LOL. I told him it is so old blind eyes like mine can see what I'm lookin at without putin the glasses on. So OJH says it looks like you can take that bottom pin out, but before you do that get a wiretie and tie up the sear and sear spring just in case it wants to pop off and you lose that spring. So that is what I do. And proceed with the hammer and punch.
Now according to the video you can use the spring out of a ball point pen. So after rapeing every pen I could find, I found 2 srpings that look like they would be good to use. Now the video says to trim the spring a bit and give it a try. So I trim the first spring, get it in and put rifle back together. I then start the dry fire test. Ok, got a problem, let me try this again, 2nd dry fire test. Ok, same problem, when I close the bolt nothing touching the trigger, trigger pulls gun fires. Try this again, close bolt, rifle dry fires nothing touching trigger. Ok, rifle comes apart we do not pass go and do not collect the 200 bucks. Rifle taken apart again. Take out first ball point pen spring and toss it, cut to short. Go to 2nd spring raped from the other ball point pen victom. As I grab the wire cutters I look at the 2nd spring, and squeeze it between fingers and see if it bends in the middle before compressing. Wait a minute, this spring looks like it doesn't need to be cut down any. Ok punch out the pin, remove trigger toss 1st spring over shoulder, and put in the 2nd spring. Wait a minute this looks good, put trigger in place, so far so good, put pin back thru trigger, ok this just might work, tap pin with hammer, now test one dry fire while rifle is out of the stock. Work the bolt, ok good, close bolt, looks good did not fire, pull trigger, holy crap what a deal, it worked.
Now to put rifle back into the stock. Work the bolt, dry fire, work bolt again, dry fire, so far so good. Now for the bump test, work bolt hold rifle and bump butt of gun on foot, so far so good, do this about 4 or 5 more times, ok good no premature fireing.
So now I grab the powderless bullets and take a couple shots just to see how the trigger works. Cool works great. Now I take the rifle over to my folks and set up a 75 yard target. I did the test fireing and the ball point pen spring works great. I brought the trigger pull from a good 8.5 pounds down to between 1 and 1.5 pound pull. Praise allah I did it LOL. Of course he had nothing to do with it.
Now if I can do this I know you to can do this. I would like to take this time to thank my public, ooops wrong speech, ok this one, yeah. I would like to take this time to thank big shrek and OJH for thier input. If not for them I would still be sittin on my back deck, face in plam with a head shake, and a headache. Below is the youtube video if you want to give it a try on your own Glenfield. There is nothing on youtube or anywhere I looked the specificly relates to the Glenfield Model 25. But if you want to do this to your Glenfield send me a PM and I will fix up the pics I took with red arrows and circles to make it somewhat easier. It may look like and old high school football play but that is better than nothing ain't it LOL?
TNPIRATE: Sir, don't cha love it when a plan comes together. Many times, "big shrek", knows the proper directions
'good on all "big shrek's" guides'
Well when it comes to plans, they never work. That is why there is plan A then plan B. And you can work that all the way to plan Z. If plan Z doesn't work then you go to plan A1 all the way to 100. Then if you fail there, there is always plan B1 all the way to 100, and so on and so forth. There is always a plan. Whether it works or not is another question. LOL
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When you are ready for some real pain, try doing a trigger job on one of the pre-1950's bolt-actions...freeking horrific...
shrek, does a Mosin count? LOL Took the bolt apart in that. Took it apart a couple of times thought the memory would serv me well. WRONG, had to pull out the computer with the youtube and sittin on the back deck putin that back together. Looked so simple till the memory didn't kick in.
__________________ Take what you can, give nothing back: Capt Jack Sparrow
shrek, does a Mosin count? LOL Took the bolt apart in that. Took it apart a couple of times thought the memory would serv me well. WRONG, had to pull out the computer with the youtube and sittin on the back deck putin that back together. Looked so simple till the memory didn't kick in.
A Mosin would be almost as bad as a pre-1950's Marlin trigger/sear...think rusty nail in a baby-food jar lid as to how they feel
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