Desperately looking for an aftermarket trigger for the Hatsan 1000X Striker. Dennis
The Welsh Willy trigger was basically a copy of the GRT III only with a longer trigger blade. After trading emails with him, I found out that while he still sold them, he didn't advertise them on his website because shooters would buy one, not follow the install instructions, then come into his shop complaining how his trigger had screwed up their guns. He may well still sell them but you'd have to email him and ask if he still has a few laying around.Myself and others have posted about the fact that the GRT III does fit and work in the Hatsan Edge/Striker/1000X rifles, it's just too short to really get your finger on and you'd have to find a way to lengthen the blade on it if you decided to get one. Here's the picture another member posted of what that GRT III looks like in a Striker and what I meant by the blade needs to be lengthened.
Steve knows all about the trigger on my Striker. All I’ve done to it is turn the adjustment screw a bit. While the pull is too long the weight is acceptable and the release is clean. I don’t understand what all the beefing is about airgun triggers. I’ve owned dozens of milsurp rifles. Still own quite a few. Ever shoot a French or Egyptian military rifle? That is what I call a bad trigger. So I have a completely different perspective about triggers.My impression of the Striker trigger after shooting it for nearly a year is generally positive. I don’t notice the odd trigger angle that others complain about. The trigger has gotten a lot smoother and the pull weight has dropped by at least a pound. My point being that cheap air gun triggers wear in eventually. My Striker is reaching a sweet spot in its evolution. The down side is that they wear out too. I’ve got a nearly 30 year old B-3 that the trigger sear is so worn on it is dangerous.
I hope my opinions don’t offend anyone. . As you can see from my signature I only own cheap, department store air guns. My firearms are pretty much the same. I consider a crummy trigger to be normal. Quality airguns are out of my reach financially but I can see how a fellow could get to liking them. I own a Hatsan model 125 with a Quattro trigger. It works but I consider it delicate, too complicated, and way too prone to get out of adjustment. Give me a simple, robust, single stage trigger and I’m happy.
The spring behind that trigger is part of the perceived hard trigger pull. Making one out of a bit softer wire or using the spring from a Crosman trigger will help that. If memory serves, that spring is also why Welsh Willy stopped advertising his trigger because to properly install, that spring had to be bent back and buyers weren't doing it, just complaining his trigger didn't work as advertised.Add the bit longer screw behind the trigger and some light polishing and proper lube and while still not a Quattro, they are much better.That trigger was why I joined this forum 5 1/2 years ago. I learned a boatload about it and between myself and fellow member OldCorps, we wrote a small book on the subject. For anyone reading this and doesn't know this minor fact yet, that trigger is a clone of the old school Gamo trigger packs and why the GRT fits and works in it. Bob Werner could have sold a bunchhhhh if he'd made a version that just had a longer blade on it.
Random lame thought would be to very carefully straighten it some, find a trigger shoe that fits the GRT and save the JB Weld. Some, LtDan up there included, have said simply straightening the stock trigger and taking that wicked curve out of it also makes a real nice difference.
Ask Dan. When I sent him the XS25 and spare AirTact stock, I also sent him a ziploc bag full of spare parts, one of which was an already straightened trigger blade that came off the Webley Valuemax I tuned/rebuilt for gendoc a couple years back and had to replace the whole trigger pack for as damaged as it was. Gun was a mess and replacing the whole trigger pack was flat easier than trying to repair the damage inside it.While he may have straightened it more than it already was, he's done it and can answer any questions you have