You can't get a better adjusting trigger than a mod 70, I like mine down at 1lb or lighter
Funny about how people can have totally different ideas about something. I would never, again, have any type of boxed adjustable trigger.
Winchester rifles are like "mothers milk" to me. I grew up in Connecticut, and at 16 when I got my driver's license my first trip was to New Haven to visit the Winchester Museum. Drool Drool Drool.
Can't count the number of Winchesters I have had since I was 16 years, old 61 years ago. I love the original model 70 trigger, even love the model 54 trigger, which was Winchesters first bolt action rifle, and the father of the model 70.
It takes an old school gunsmith to really do fine job on an old Model 70, or Mauser trigger. But when done well, they are just DONE. I like mine set at 2.5 to 2.75 pounds.
The reason they are coming up with adjustable boxed triggers, is that there are less and less gunsmiths who are skilled. So "throw in" an adjustable boxed trigger.
An old Winchester or Mauser triggers are self-cleaning. Boxed triggers can be trap for dust.
I was in a just plowed field one morning waiting for the boar to pass through on their way to some fresh barley when a big wind came up and stayed blowing for long time. The boxed trigger on rifle got dust filled and the pull went to 8 pounds as measured by the gunsmith before taking it apart to clean it later.
I like triggers that are designed for war.
A friend of mine had two periods in his life when he was a competition marksman. First as a Marine officer, then as a senior.
All in all, he won 36 national and international shooting matches. All rifle matches were won with an old but very well-tuned old model 70 with a glass smooth original trigger honed to a 3-pound pull.
