Did a little trigger job on my WASR...

[Aggressive Perfector]

First to tell you all where I fucked up...

This rifle had a little shephards hook locking the hammer and trigger pins in place. No big deal... Except it won't go back in. Maybe I'll try for round two to get it back in in an hour or so... Or maybe I'll just buy one of them retainer plates and wait on it to come in the mail before I get it all back together. That looks simpler. As to why I pulled my fcg out to begin with:



Decided to pull my trigger group out and break some of the hard edges on the hammer, as well as de-burr the disconnector and sear. Also found some sand in the spaces in the trigger spring (need I explain?) that really needed come out. The point in all this was to primarily help smooth out the action in the rifle by decreasing how much the bolt drags on the hammer. making a minor improvement to the feel of the trigger was secondary as no matter what the trigger will be light with a long pull. A little dremel work on the hammer and some polishing with a hone stone on everything else really has this thing smoothed out well. Trigger pull is about the same, just less gritty (which I'm sure was due mostly to the sand in the fcg), and my bcg pulls back with far less resistance and really slams home with a bit more authority.

[FunkyPertwee]

I went with side plates on my rifles once, but decided I hated the fact that the safety lever is what now holds the FCG in. So I put shepherd's hooks back in all my rifles.

Get a good long set of needle nose and make that bastard go back in. Not unless you plan on regularly taking your FCG out.

[Aggressive Perfector]

I considered that, but I do have this tendency to get a wild hair up my ass to tinker with shit. OTOH... which method more securely locks in the pins?

[Schuetzenman]

Millions upon millions of AK rifles built and using a Sheppard's Hook. Seems to work just fine as originally designed.

[Aggressive Perfector]

Noted. Retaining plate is en route, shepherds hook is bagged and in a box of spare AK parts. If the retaining plate sucks, I'm out all of about $5 and I can put the shepherds hook back in. All's well.

[NAPOTS]

the shepherds hook is Kalishnikov's way of having a sense of humor.