Trigger Placement questions

[wvmtnman]

I am getting ready to install the trigger on my current project.  I am trying to make set triggers, like the one in the past few muzzleloader magazine articles, but if they do not turn out I am going to put in a single trigger.  I also plan on making this. Here are my questions concerning the placement of a single trigger.  In the past I have always used set triggers.

#1  Would it be better (mechanical advantage) to pin the trigger into the stock or make a plate that the trigger can in into?

#2 How far in front of the sear bar should the pad of the trigger be located?

                                                     Thankls in advance, Brian

[AndyThomas]

This is what I do with single triggers. I pin it in the stock with the pin about 1/2" from the sear bar (center to center), and at about the same level as the bar. Sometimes it turns out closer to 3/8" than 1/2". This is with the big Chambers English locks. Works well.

Hope this helps,
Andy

[George F.]

I've tried twice to pin a trigger in the stock unsuccessfully. Getting the hole where you want it, keeping it square to the stock, and not getting the pin hole tilted up and down proved to difficult for me and ended up making my own trigger plate and pinned the trigger to it.  ...Geo.

[flintriflesmith]

Pined into the stock is far and away the most common on 18th-century American longrifles.

It gives better mechanical advantage to pin it so at he point of contact the trigger and sear bar are essentially rotating around nearly the same pivot point so I pin them a bit higher than the trigger bar--more on line with the sear screw. That way there is no sliding action between the trigger and sear.

Gary

[David Rase]

I draw a line between the sear bar and the sear screw.  I then place my pivot point for the trigger 3/8" away from the sear bar o this line.  This method has served me well for many years.  I actually prefer single triggers to double sets.
DMR