The 340 has fairly heavy trigger and sear pieces so they do need a reasonably strong spring to prevent the trigger from getting released by a good bump test (thumping the buttstock against the ground with the safety in the fire position).FWIW.The retail operations of our host has been shut down due to the pandemic.I believe a mid June date is hoped for on a re-opening.

It can be cleaned up but not lightened up much beyond that.

Otherwise, that 7-9lb trigger pull is about normal for an untouched 340 trigger. My next suspect would be a weak sear spring or the sear itself dirty/binding.Ĭheck for any parts that looked burred up while you're in there cleaning. I would start with a good thorough cleaning (if you haven't already) to see how freely the safety lever can move. It sounds like someone in the past tried to force the safety on with the action uncocked and possibly bent or burred up one of the sheetmetal pieces inside the trigger group, most likely the little tab on the end of the safety lever.Īnother possibility is that the safety lever itself or it's detent ball/spring setup are sticky or is weak or gummed up and the sear spring doesnt' have enough oomph to push the safety lever back out of the way as the action is being cocked. I would definitely check out (or have it checked out by a local smith) your trigger and not use it in this condition.that erratic sear-seating could caused an accidental discharge just by flipping the safety from SAFE to FIRE. Your 'hair trigger' condition is most likely being caused by the sear lever not fully seating in the sear notch when the action is cycled with the safety half-applied as you described above. If the action is not cocked, the safety should only move down about 1/16' of an inch or so before it stops against the uncocked sear. Normally, you shouldn't be able to engage the safety on a 340 until the action is cocked. The gun fires flawlessly, and does not fire when it is not supposed to. I have spoke to a guy, that has one in 30-30 and it does it. Question I have is if you have one of the rifle are you able to do this? Now pulling on the trigger is less than a lb. The safety down in case cycling the bolt has moved it. I raise the bolt up-back-forward- and before down I press If I pushĭown on the safety it will not go all the way down. Was the long way to say cycle the bolt and pull the trigger) On this it's kind of predictable when it will break. It won't fire while on safety, and while I have it on fire Safety is still up, I can set it to safe and fire just fine. I will cycle the bolt, up-back-forward-down. 222, with the bolt down safety set to fire and not cocked Shooting this Savage is awesome! But I'm curious.

Disassembly 340 savage