.357 94AE trigger job

[retmech]

I recently purchased a 94ae in .357 at a very reasonable price but found it lacking in trigger quality, the pull was 7.5 lbs. The gun is pretty accurate so I decided to open it up and see what could be done. I'm sure you fellows on this board are well versed in this but it was all new to me.
First I shimmed the sear in my .45 auto sear jig and polished the sear slightly changing the sear angle to lighten the pull. I did not have a stone that would fit in the hammer hook slot so I put a piece of 1500 wet/dry paper on a .020 feeler gauge to slide into the hammer slot to polish the hammer hook. I reassembled the gun and found I was slightly over 4 lbs. which was better but I wanted lighter. In the course to trying to bend the trigger return spring I broke it, which turned out to be a good thing. I snapped off the grip saftey leg of a .45 auto sear spring and tacked it to the broken end of the return spring(see pic). This spring bears on the sear and the .45 spring is lighter than the stock winchester spring and it lightened the pull into the mid 3 lb. range. I then took 2 coils off the hammer spring and I'm right at 3 lbs. exactly. I've fired about 100 rds so far with no misfires or light strikes and if this continues for another couple hundred rounds I'll clip another coil. Any suggestions from from other posters are appreciated. Nick

[salvo]

You can also tune/lighten the other side of the spring that pushes down on the trigger block. As you found out don't go to far you want it to keep engaged when the lever is opened.