Thread: Shout out for Howa

2lb kits work for me. But I'm used to lighter triggers. And I practice with them a lot, dry firing after installation, and then with live rounds at paper, just to retrain the finger and brain.

No idea what the factory setting was on my Howas, they were all different though. Probably 3-4lbs. But the pull weight wasn't really the issue, it was the gritty creep. The last one I bought which was the heavy barrel Creedmoor was a complete toad of a factory trigger. That's been eliminated with the lighter springs (plus a good clean and lubricate).

It also depends a lot on what kind of shooting you doing. If its more precision work like what I mostly do i.e. shooting animals at longer ranges, prone, then lighter is better. But for a woods gun I want something a bit heavier, for shooting offhand in a bit of a hurry. To that end, I have a lightweight Tikka build in 308 that I actually increased the trigger weight on, as I found that in certain circumstances I was prone to discharging the rifle slightly earlier than I intended when swinging it onto a lead on a running animal (usually a pig), resulting in me in hitting the animal to far back to stop it in one.

So up to you, but if you're mostly shooting prone or of a rest of some kind and then 2lb should be fine.