New England Firearms Sportster .22lr

[johnmpeters]

Does anyone own or have any experience with the New England Firearms Sportster in .22lr? I really like the NEF rifles and shotguns and know from experience that their 17HMR Sportster is an axcellent and accurate rifle. Google has failed me on this particular question, any input would be greatly appreciated

[johnmpeters]

Originally Posted by johnlives4christ

i havent had any experience with this model, but i have considered buying it several times. the only thing that stopped me was, on the particular one i looked at, the trigger sucked. it was atleast 7 pounds, that wouldn't normally stop me since i can work on a trigger, but i hadn't taken one of these apart and didnt want to chance it.

7 pounds sucks for any kind of accuracy work. I heard you can send these in to NEF and have the trigger lightened, but I would hate to buy a new rifle and then immediately have to turn around and send it in for work and wait weeks to get it back. I don't know what happened, I have and old NEF 20 guage with a wonderful trigger. Seems all the recently made NEF's have very heavy triggers on them