tal photo before removing the factory trigger, showing how the bolt-release spring fi ts. Or you might take the rifl e to a gunsmith and let him worry about the entire operation.) Even with that mishap, it took
only a little over half an hour to install the Jard. It worked perfectly from the start, partly because it doesn’t have any adjustment screws to mess around with. The fi rst step in using any super-
light trigger (here defi ned as any pull of eight ounces or less) is becoming ac- customed to placing your fi nger on the blade without tripping the trigger. This should be done prior to ever placing a live round in the chamber, because so far in the history of rifl es, nobody has ever touched a really light trigger for the fi rst time without inadvertently tripping it before they planned to. With some practice, however, eventually you’ll fi nd that even a 2-ounce trigger has a perceptible pull. I fi rst used the new trigger in the
fi eld on an afternoon prairie dog shoot in southeastern Montana with my friend John Stuver and his son Billy, who’d located a small town a short way off a county road. Apparently few people ever take the trouble to walk the 300 yards to the fi rst ridge overlooking the town, because the dogs weren’t super- nervous. We all lay prone on the ridge and
started shooting. John and Billy used bipods, while I rested the .221 over my daypack. A steady but relatively mild west wind blew across the ridge and the dog town, so a perfectly steady hold wasn’t quite possible. The light trigger proved to be very handy, even at close range on the fi rst easy dogs. The scope on the .221 is a Leupold
VX-3 3.5-10x40 with a Long Range Duplex reticle, which I’ve found to be plenty for shooting out to 400 yards, about as far as the Fireball is consistently effective with my standard load, featur- ing the 40-grain Nosler Ballistic Tip at about 3,450 fps. By the end of the after- noon most shots were coming at 300-400 yards, and it was very nice to be able to hold the right dot on the right spot and immediately trip the trigger, without having to take up some poundage fi rst. Billy Stuver even spent some time
in Iraq as a U.S. Army sniper and I was interested in his opinion of the Jard trigger. Of course, he tripped it off ac-
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cidently the fi rst time he touched it (on an empty chamber, of course), but after three more pulls felt ready for live fi re. He liked it a lot, especially in less-steady shooting positions, and like me was im- pressed with the consistency of the pull, a big factor in controlling any trigger. Jard Match Grade triggers for the
Remington 700 come in models with pull weights of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 ounces, all priced at $181.50. They also offer trigger
upgrade kits and adjustable triggers for a variety of rifl es, along with barrels, AR-15 uppers, and the Jard 50 semiauto, chambered for the .50 BMG.
Jard, Inc.
2737 Nettle Ave. Sheldon, IA 51201 714-324-7409
www.jardinc.com
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