Mulligan
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I talked to Ian yesterday, he told me they were making changes to their ignition system to maintain .250+ firing pin fall. I agree, Kudo's to the Kelbly's.No because that would make the firing pin cock on close. If you move the trigger rearward you gain pin fall, but then if you time the cocking piece to the new trigger sear location, you are right back to reduced pin fall. When I make the firing pin cock farther to the rear I gain pin fall regardless of trigger hanger position and whether I time a trigger or not. No matter what, you gain pin fall.
I’ve only done this modification on actions that use an identical ignition system as the Rem 700 so can’t say if it works on everything. I know Alex has done it on quite a few different custom BR actions and I gathered from talking to him that it’s not an easy task on some of the other ignition systems out there. Which is a big reason he talks to action manufacturers about making everything perfect right out of the box. Not fun spending a lot of money on a custom action then having to tear it apart to make necessary changes for proper timing and ignition.
I did this on a Kelby Atlas as well. When they first came out they had good pin fall but significant cock on close with the BnA trigger I like. Measurements showed me the Atlas had room for improvement so the modification would work. With the BnA trigger timed on the Atlas I fell down to around .218” pin fall. After modifying for more pin fall i got it back up to .242”. I talked to Ian at Kelby about my findings and I’m sure others did as well. I heard Kelby has done some modifications of their own to the ignition system to provide good trigger timing with proper pin fall. I haven’t tried one of the latest Atlas actions yet so can’t actually confirm that personally but hats off to Kelby for listening to input if this is true.
On my BAT HR, the BnA trigger is perfectly timed and has excellent pin fall right out of the box. No need to touch it whatsoever. Smooth as melted butter![]()
BAT Machine has bee listing to the smiths for some time, much respect for them also.
CW