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Originally Posted by sealbeach
After learning how they were doing it, I made my own: sports bottle with exactly 4 lbs. of change in it, checked it with a very accurate digital postal scale, cross checked with a second scale. I used a bent heavy gauge wire for a hook, and then I could learn that my Lyman gauge was off by 2.1 oz @ 4 lbs.
Each gun therefore needed to read 4 lbs. 2.1 oz to just be exactly 4 lbs trigger pull, so I added 2 oz more to be even safer. Now each gun on the Lyman had to read 4 lbs, 4.1 oz OR MORE in order to pass.
My double check was the simple 4 lb weight/bent wire hook, each gun had to pass that test too. The guy in the armory (Lance, not Dwayne) kept rechecking each one, he seemed surprised they passed--but if I had trusted the Lyman, they would have failed!!!
The problem with only using a 4 lb weight to calibrate your triggers, is that it is a pass/no pass deal, you might make the trigger much too stiff, if you cannot tell what your adjustments are doing--it passes the weight test, but it might be much higher than you want.
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Good stuff SB. After reading about the scale they use, I have a foggy memory of seeing one. Now I'm trying to remember where. I NEED one of those!!! (Though your sports bottle is a great idea.)
I think it's just bizarre the differences from county to county. They don't even LOOK at the guns up here. In fact, the ladies typing up the permits don't know anything about guns, so i'm sure i could write in a rife and they wouldn't know. I'm guessing they would know that 12
gauge shouldn't be there though.