JBL woody

[hitjohn]

Originally Posted by Polystigma

I have not touched the trigger mech. However, I may consult someone that knows more about it. And have them give me some instructions on what I can do to improve it.
I do remember from a while back someone recommended taking out the sear. And cleaning up the rugged edges with some fine grit sand paper. Supposed to make trigger action smoother. But I do not see how it would reduce the trigger pull force?

i think the trigger can be polished where the forefinger piece glides on the bottom of the sear piece. that area of friction can develop scratches since the metal contacts over time. if you polish them up the tiny grooves are no longer there and the mirror like polished surface should essentially glide better than it is than when its worn. i think a lot of times this stuff is hard to see with the eye but when you polish something it gets the real fine scratches out with a polish wheel and rouge, even with polish compound and a little elbow grease.

maybe there is a way to heat treat the mechanism parts and quickly cooling them down to harden them? i will do some research.

john

[hitjohn]

Originally Posted by hcknudsen

looks good, are there no other fairpriced triggermech parts that can be switched to?

hc

hc, i think with the jbl guns, there are no triggers which will take the sear notch and the slot in the handle. other than remaking a handle and trigger housing and recutting the latch area of the spearshaft i dont think there is any way of replacing the trigger mechanism other than with another jbl mechanism.

john

[hitjohn]

Originally Posted by Polystigma

The bands are 9/16'' by 20''. The JBL trigger mechanism to say the least is a piece of crap. It takes so much pressure to fire! And when you do that the gun goes off aim and you miss shots more often. I do not use this gun too often. I mainly use my Riffe Euro. But with these mods the JBL is much more accurate than it was stock. Ditching the bulky slide ring was definitely a big improvement.

Just so you know I did not build that particular stock. I purchased it from Neptonicsystems.com. I did however make a stock on my own. But when I went to put in the muzzle reinforcement. The stock split! And I had to toss it. So I purchased a stock from Neptonic. They build these conversion stocks for JBL and AB Biller guns.

Here are some pictures of the stock I made, before I split it.

say, how did that band elevator work on your gun? i was going to make one out of delrin on the 3rd muzzle band hole i have since i am not using it but decided not to do so yet. did this help your gun any?

john

[Polystigma]

It did the job of keeping the bands in line with the shaft. But unfortunately I never got to test it before I split the barrel. Probably would have worked out well. If the bands are not in line with the shaft. I guess you may have accuracy issues.
BTW I made the band elevator out of a paint roller. LOL.

[hitjohn]

Originally Posted by Polystigma

It did the job of keeping the bands in line with the shaft. But unfortunately I never got to test it before I split the barrel. Probably would have worked out well. If the bands are not in line with the shaft. I guess you may have accuracy issues.
BTW I made the band elevator out of a paint roller. LOL.

hey man, nothing wrong with improvising and its my favorite thing to do.

on the side, i had read on spearboard that your father had passed away not long ago. i send you my condolences. my best friend lost his father 2 years ago and he is the sole caretaker for his mom. i think something like this really makes one grow up real fast. his dad would be proud of how he is taking care of his mom. its not easy but thats whats happening right now.

i think its great you like to improvise and make things too. i think for myself there is no better way to learn than to do something even if it does not work out all that well.

man, i sure wish for more time diving these days. i have a trip in may to SCI and cant wait. just to get away from work.

: )

john

[Polystigma]

Thanks for your kind words.
I believe we may be headed out to Catalina this weekend for some yellowtail hunting. Never shot one before (always too far from me) but I am gonna do my best to make it happen this time. I took the express over to Catalina last weekend (Sunday) and free dove Casino Point. While my buddie did his first SCUBA dive in 8 years! I got my new personal best freedive (45-50ft).
Good luck at SCI. There are big fish to be had there. What will you be targeting?

Regards
Martin

[hitjohn]

Originally Posted by Polystigma

Thanks for your kind words.
I believe we may be headed out to Catalina this weekend for some yellowtail hunting. Never shot one before (always too far from me) but I am gonna do my best to make it happen this time. I took the express over to Catalina last weekend (Sunday) and free dove Casino Point. While my buddie did his first SCUBA dive in 8 years! I got my new personal best freedive (45-50ft).
Good luck at SCI. There are big fish to be had there. What will you be targeting?

Regards
Martin

man, i dont know what we'll be targeting, just camp and no work for now: ) i would love to see wsb or yellowtail since its been a long time since i have seen those. someone told me once that yellowtail always come back for a look if you have flashers set up. im going to try a set of flashers, i have em but never really dragged them around with me.

i emailed skip hellen a while back ane hs said at smugglers cove he got easy limits of big halibut at sci . i dont think my wife and i will be able to paddle this dar. i dont want to get stuck on the other side of the point since this is all new to us.

i have a feeling we'll end up chasing calicos and maybe looking for scallops
: )

i'll see where my friends want to go. i need to check a map still.

let us know how catalina goes, i would love to go there too.

john