Well it's been over a year since I last gave an update. You know how life, family and job interferes with fun sometimes.
Previously I mentioned the very heavy trigger pull on this rifle. This week I set out to improve it. It took a while to get the badly buggered up tang screw out, but it finally came out. This allowed be to remove the trigger plate. It was nasty deep down in there. I got it all apart and cleaned up. As expected, the trigger spring was very heavy and strong. First I tried putting a couple washers under the spring to lighten it. It helped a little, but not much. So I then decided to make a new spring from an old hacksaw blade ( a tip I read on another forum). The hacksaw blade already had a small hole in the end which could be used for attaching the spring. After cutting, grinding and shaping, it was installed and tested. It made a huge improvement! It returns the trigger smartly, but doesn't take magilla gorilla to pull it now. Hopefully this will help with the vertical stringing problem.
Next I turned to the cartridges. I decided to try something a bit different - paper patching. All I have are the. 590" minies to work with and I know they are a little undersize. I found that using. 002" onionskin I could bring up the OD to. 598". It's a snug fit, but I can load these in the fired and unsized cases.
I filled the bullet cavity with lube and loaded them up over 60gr of old E 2F. Hopefully I can get to the range this week and try them out.