Winchester two piece trigger - The barrel on this rifle is obviously a replacement with only 450 Alaskan stamped on it. The action only has a ten figure number in two rows one over the other. The second row is PR1B7. The guy I got this rifle from did not know much about it. I am now assuming it was ...

Mike,
Where did you get your mainsprings from?
Thanks
Old Bear

Well, there you go. Shows you how much I know! :roll: The coil mainspring in my 71 just will not get the job done. It even looks wimpy! Is there no way to improve this? Are the Browning copies the very same as the Winchester's? Can I find and original Winchester coil and not the Browning make? It ap...

Has anyone out there had reliability problems with the Browning M 71 mainspring not snapping the primers 100%? I have one converted to 450 Alaskan and find that the coil spring is downright wimpy. I got this thing for brown bear and don't dare use it like it is. Would like to find some very good pho...