Triggers & Thompson Centers

[eagle rider]

I bought a Encore Pro Hunter off a buddy for my son. The trigger on this one feels different than mine does. Its crisp, with no creep or slack but as it releases kind of heavy, Anyone else with a TC ever have this?

[Lawdwaz]

Not sure about the present staff at T/C but years ago they were wonderful about things like that.

[sbuff]

Check to see what Mike Bellm can do.

[stillhunter]

Mine was heavier than I liked. I put in a Bellm #3 trigger spring, and lightened the trigger pull. It's a pretty simple thing to do. Just do a search for Encore trigger jobs and you'll find their site.

[eagle rider]

thanks.

[adirondackbushwhack]

While your at it you might think about upgrading the rest of the springs. I went with the Bellm # 4 trigger spring (2-2 1/2 lb) in mine and polished everything up and altered the sear notch. I also upgraded every spring there is on the rifle to more heavy duty ones and added a hammer extension even though I have the swing hammer the hammer extension is much better for me. Changed from the factory hinge pin to a accuracy locker hinge pin. (not the bellm oversized hinge pin) While I have a TC pro hunter muzzle loader barrell; for my hunting rifle barrel I have a Match Grade Machine, Shilen select match barrel in .444, prettied up a bit too. Have the flex tech stock in two camo patterns and upgraded the stock forend and butt stock screws to Stainless ones. My frame was ordered from TC's custom shop when they were still in buisness and is actually a prettied up version of an encore frame featuring engraving and I had it upgraded with the pro hunter hammer and as I said changed all of the springs and polished everythng up so it is now (really) a custom frame. You can really have a lot of fun customizing your pro hunter and when you are done you won't believe the difference in it. It will feel and perform much better than when you began.

[eagle rider]

Thanks adirondakbushwack. Got the trigger done and its a great shooter now. How are the recoild pads on the regualr (not Flextech) stocks? Are they hockey pucks or something softer than that?

[adirondackbushwhack]

Thanks adirondakbushwack. Got the trigger done and its a great shooter now. How are the recoild pads on the regualr (not Flextech) stocks? Are they hockey pucks or something softer than that?

I don't know I only have flextech stocks. I have a bad shoulder and hunt witha 444 so I went with the flextech stock to help with recoil, it works.