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To: 300winmag; Ramius; g'nad; osagebowman
I don't have pics but we did a couple trigger last night. Jen has not really liked the pull on her XD. So I got a ‘drop in’ kit from Springer Precision and swapped some bits out. It takes a little ‘fitting’ but was a big improvement. I need to pull it appart again and do a smidge more grinding but it took out a lot of overtravel and lightened the pull.

Also a co-worker of Jen's came over and we did some work on the trigger of his S&W M&P. Nice gun but the pull left some to be desired. The worst part was a lot of over travel. Armed with a ‘how to’ description from the net. we ground down part of the sear and improved it a lot. Unfortunately since it was not swapping parts the improvement in overtravel was made at the expense of a little more pretravel. Oh well, good trade.
That vastly increased the amount of ‘real’ gunsmithing I have done. Will have to see how they shoot. It is nice to leave a gun tangibly better to shoot than when you started.

They were finding the overtravel was really spreading their groups around. Those light composite guns really twitch when there is a lot of that. Yeah that is fixable by just getting better at you smooth squeeze. The trick of balancing something on the front sight was really helping. But with the test coming up next week they needed all the help they could get.

4,050 posted on 08/01/2008 6:54:22 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Evening Talon, nice going on cleaning up the trigger. It sure doesn’t seem to take long till the ‘after market’ firms start supplying what the manufacturer should have put in the first place. Taking a gun apart and putting back together with new parts in it and still having it work is no mean feat.


4,069 posted on 08/01/2008 7:32:33 PM PDT by osagebowman
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I missed this earlier... good stuff...


4,095 posted on 08/02/2008 10:19:03 AM PDT by g'nad
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