I bought a Stevens 200 at Grice's. Great price, good gun, and I'm slowly turning it into a great gun at very little additional cost.

Did a trigger mod with smaller diameter trigger spring wire. Reduced the trigger pull to something between 3 and 3.5 pounds.

I was trying to figure out how to reduce creep when I read an article about CZ rimfies and using aluminum foil duct tape (NOT the regular cloth Duct tape or Duck tape, but the real foil stuff that HVAC pros use) as a shimming material.

I took the stock off, put brake cleaner on a rag and fully degreased the sear engagement surfaces and then cut three small pieces of foil tape and used them as shims to reduce the amount of sear engagement.

I don't have a photo, but if you look at the diagram here, I put the tape on the upper surface where the arrow points to "Key NO.2" since Stevens triggers don't have that sear engagement screw. (I wrapped the edges of the tape around the sides of the trigger for a better hold.)

I tested it (dry firing) and everything seemed to work except the safety. I backed out the safety engagement screw about one eighth of a revolution to compensate for the shim.

Re-Lubed the engagement surfaces with moly powder and dry fired it a bunch to work the moly into the metal.

Reinstalled the stock, banged it on the ground, slammed the bolt, knocked it in all directions with a big piece of wood and the safety works as it should.

After dry firing, there is pretty much no creep, and the trigger break is a surprise every time. Trigger pull is now somewhere between 2.5 and three pounds. Plenty light for hunting.

Right now I have no ammo for this rifle, but when I load some I'll let you know how it holds up.

Gotta love those Savage/Stevens rifles.

If anyone wants to try this, but doesn't want to spend the dough for an entire roll of tape, PM or email me for my address. Send me a SASE, and I'll send you back enough tape to do several rifles. It doesn't take much. I used less than 1/2 square inch for the one rifle.

I hope this is understandable. If not, please ask questions.
All the best.