Modern options for set triggers?

WindstormSCR

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Got a chance to shoot some fantastic old mausers and other european guns last weekend, one of them that particularly caught my attention was the double set trigger sported by (I think) a mauser in 7x66SE Vom Hofe. quite the interesting cartridge, but the set trigger as also a new experience. I can see why they're not used any longer for PRS/competition use, but for hunting applications it seems like an interesting option for a light trigger that's still quite safe.

Are there any options these days for a double-bow set trigger for a modern hunting rifle build? I found JARD makes something similar-ish for the Rem700 platform, but is single-bow and doesn't seem to have particularly good reviews, and there wasn't much of anything else showing up in my searches.
 
Cz527 had a single set trigger. They discontinued them about a year ago. Really pissed me off, I'd been looking for one in 17 hornet. My buddy has one in 204 that is funner than shit. That trigger is sweet.
 
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I don’t know of any double set triggers available in the US. Weihrauch has some, and maybe Anschutz. No large calibers from those makers.

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I have four CZ 527’s and I’ve started to just make the main trigger light (aided by a light spring too) and ignore (or adjust out) the single set trigger bit. The flaw in that system, for me, is that the trigger reach becomes too far to get a good 90° finger pull. That and the fact of your small varmint shooting it gets old setting that darn trigger 500 times in a few days.

A double set trigger, as I understand it, would fix the extra reach shortcoming, but not help the second. But if you’re hunting larger game my second quibble wouldn’t matter.
 
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