It shouldn't be legal to have Christmas on a Sunday, cuz then New Years falls on a Sunday, and Sunday being my PB day, and the Eves on Saturdays being impossible to play, well this really has put the cabash on my playing ball for two weeks.
AND since the last weekend prior was a fairly lame walk-on day, I decided to mod up my old old old (1998) Model 98. A gun I pretty much never used except once in a scenario up at Skirmish when my cocker was acting like a biatch. Walk on has been so lame that I figured I needed something to wake me up, and maybe down grading would do it. Besides I have a friend who regularly shoots me out using his A5, so it's not all about technology...
well the only real reason to post up here is because I did a mod that you all might like.

First I did the polish, in two steps with 350-600-1000 sandpaper, then a final polish with a dremel kit. Loving it. Much smoother feeling.
Then I modded a 2finger trigger kit to work in the M98, I think it'd fit a C98, but the first M98s had no expansion plans. I had to drill holes to fit the trigger guard.

But here's the mod-
I saw the TechT sear adjustment pins, and not having them, all I could think was I had to try to do this even if I had to wrap tape around the pins. Particularly the sear height, more than the trigger stop.
But as I was poking around my desk for some part that might work, or inspire me, I found a spring from a ball point pen. Cut down to size it fit perfectly over the sear stop pin and took away some of the sear height. I double it up by overlapping two cut pieces, but that put the sear too low to reliably catch the hammer. The final version is a cut piece large enough that when the two halves close, it makes the spring solid, so a little lower sear height than just a single small cut spring.
Only when I was trying to shoot (dryfire) as fast as possible did I occasionally shortstroke. But in slower steady shooting it didn't miss a beat.
I may try the trigger return restricter mod next.
I definitely am happier with the triggering and smoothness of my clunky old M98 and look forwards (desperately) to playing with it. As long as it shoots straight, I think the old boy is going to get some field time in this year!

Welcome to 98OG,Dave.

Be sure to test your mods with paint to ensure your backup marker doesn't let you down.

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I'll be testing it out this weekend, and if the mod doesn't work I'll certainly post it up. If it shoots decently straight, (Just got a CP14") then my back up this weekend will be my g6r which I'm pretty sure won't let me down.

The old M98 worked great, and the mod worked perfectly. No chops, no inconsistency except that it seemed to even bounce the sear a little shallower making the pull even lighter. This I found out because when it made it shallower, the trigger I have and the way I had to install it since the first M98s were not setup like the c98 to remove the trigger guard easily, I couldn't pull the trigger far enough back to kick the sear when it landed shallow. It didn't stop the games, but at the first break I got I opened her up and saw the problem. The fix I did was to add height to the seartrip piece, all I could think of to use was a bit of twist tie from a bag of paint... BUT it worked perfectly and I had some very excellent games using the old girl. She's going to be my primary for a while...

pics???

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