They say there are no dumb questions...

[jmace57]

If there really are no dumb questions...here ya go.

Has anyone ever thought about taking one of these things and using it to measure trigger pull? Change the "strap" to a hook or something? Seems about half the price of the cheapest trigger-pull measuring device I've seen.

Portable Digital Luggage Scale with LCD Display - Tanga

 

[CLASSIC12]

I have a couple since I travel quite a bit for work.

I don’t think it would record when and at what weight the trigger breaks, so you’d have to read it / guess it live while pulling.

And it certainly won’t record averages.

For saving 10 bucks, not worth the trouble I think.

 

[Farmer17]

I have one of the spring type trigger pull gauges I bought at Cabelas for about 30 bucks and it's really cheezy, seems like it cost about .50 cents to make it. It seems to work OK but I would have a lot more confidence in a nice digital scale.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Lyman makes digital trigger pull scales, maybe others as well.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I have an older RCBS "spring type" trigger pull gauge. Works very well, and measures ounces. One rifle is 19 ounces and one is 12. It goes up to 8 pounds. If it is over 8 pounds I don't care about the specifics. (I have one old military single shot that a different scale said was 27 pounds, but the gun still killed the quota of ground hogs!)

Midway has the Wheeler version on sale for 19.00, which is less than I paid 25 years ago!

Ivan

 

[Onomea]

For weighing luggage, weigh yourself on your bathroom scale. Then pick up your luggage and weigh yourself again.

 

[2152hq]

I'd probably get one specificly made for the job if I did.
But it's been 50yrs now.
That's one thing I never have had,,a trigger pull gauge.

 

[Watchdog]

They say there are no dumb questions.

That's what they say, alright.

Has anyone ever thought about taking one of these things and using it to measure trigger pull?

No, not me. If I want to know the trigger pull on a gun, I'll run it by my LGS. The gunsmith there will check it out, and not even charge me anything. While he's back in the back doing that, I can be browsing the shelves to see how many more guns I can't afford.

 

[s&wchad]

Any low pound scale should work. For years, I use an “S” hook and a 48 ounce jar of salsa to adjust trigger pull on Remington 700’s. It worked fine.

The NRA has used fixed weights to qualify triggers for years. Anything consistent is fine.

 

[Bugkiller99]

If there really are no dumb questions...

Coming from a man who obviously has not been reading my posts

 

[Sistema1927]

There may be no dumb questions, but that doesn't rule out the fact that dumb people ask questions.

Not saying that is the case here, but I would spring for a Lyman digital.

And for the suggestion of weighing yourself and then picking up your luggage, that works fine at home, but i have yet to find a hotel room with a bathroom scale. Where my small luggage scale comes in handy is after the wife has gone hog wild in the souvenir department, and we need to figure out how much stuff to cram into our carry on bags in order to avoid additional baggage charges.

 

[carpriver]

do you test the trigger pull weight loaded or unloaded? How is that for a dumb question?

 

[Absalom]

do you test the trigger pull weight loaded or unloaded?

I never work on my guns when I’m loaded.

The whiskey comes out after the guns have been locked away.

 

[soFlaNative]

There are no dumb questions but always inquisitive morons.

 

[LDM]

Seems that for every dumb question there are numerous dumber answers.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

There are more dumb questions than ever before. Something to do with public education in the US over the past couple of generations, in my opinion.

 

[H Richard]

I have one of the luggage scales, but isn't accurate enough for triggers. I always carry it with me when I travel, after having to unload and put in a different bag several lbs of clothes right at the check in counter in the Venice airport. One bag was 53 and the other was 47 and they made us shuffle it.