Howa Mini trigger upgrade?

I'm in the midst of a bare budget Howa mini build in .223 with the factory 20" heavy barrel. Sold tons of them years back and never saved one for myself. I'm planning on using a trigger spring by "Gunbloke" out of Austraila. I'm not expecting lots, but I'm hoping for a fairly accurate shooter.
 
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I've re-barreled five Mini actions with Bartlein or Kriegers, from 20 Tactical to 6.5 grendel. Trash-canned all the factory plastic trigger guard/mag wells and replaced with either DIP or Jefferson aluminum DBMs, including one of Jefferson's that uses CZ 527 steel mags (on a 22 Grinch that I couldn't make work with the Howa poly mags, but that feeds very slick out of the CZ mag).

I've clipped a coil off the inner spring of the HACT factory 2-stage trigger on all these rifles, and am more than satisfied with them. I put a Timney trigger on one, and it was ok, but wound up going back to the modified HACT trigger on that rifle. The only downside to the modded HACT that I notice is that the curve of the trigger shoe is a bit off when used with these aluminum DBMs.
 
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Mini triggers are the same as standard 1500's. Howa's HACT triggers are not bad at all at the price point but tend to be a bit heavy. I did the Gunbloke 1 1/2# spring kit in a Mini and a 1500 SA. Made a big improvement and the pull weight was as advertised or slightly better. Cheap as chips and easy to install.