This'll really trip your trigger

Since I had a lot of time with the gun apart while refinishing the stock, I took the opportunity to do some other work.  The Mosin is a military gun.  In Russia, that translates as "lets build them as fast as we can."  This is especially obvious in the trigger.  The stock trigger falls into the "It works" category.  The pull was so high that you could lift the gun by the trigger and it wouldn't go off.  It didn't feel very smooth either.  The solution is a trigger job.  It basically entails polishing all the contact points in the trigger system.  After polishing, I also shimmed the sear to lighten the pull.  It's still a bit heavy, but is lighter than stock, and feels much smoother.  Pictures won't do much good, there's not much to see, so I swiped a picture off the internet.