I just bought a new SP101...2.25" barrel in .357 mag. I knew from reading about it that the trigger was heavy, and I checked it at the shop before I bought it. It is indeed heavy, but not what I'd call difficult to handle. Cocking the hammer so that it can be fired SA is more difficult than on any other revolver I've owned...still not impossible, but it's pretty stout. I read somewhere (but can't find now) that others have smoothed out their triggers a bit by putting some lube down inside the mechanism through the hammer opening (i.e., not disassembling the revolver) and then lots of dry fire. I've seen videos on the complete disassembly of the SP101, and I'm not ready to do that yet. I am ready to do some dry firing, hence my question: if I cock the hammer and then hold it while pulling the trigger, so that I can lower the hammer, rather than let it fall normally, does this accomplish the same thing as just pulling the trigger and letting the hammer fall?
I may someday get up the gumption to disassemble the revolver completely, and undertake some of the sanding and polishing, but usually my best efforts mechanically are akin to pathetic. The gun smith at the shop in the town where we used to live told me he wouldn't charge me for labor for anything I wanted done, just parts only, if I'd let him do the work first. He said it was easier and faster for him to do it right first than it was to fix what I "fixed." More realistically, I may send this gun off somewhere to have a professional action job done on it someday. In the meantime, I just want to fire it some to break it in, and maybe smooth out the action as I described above.
I may someday get up the gumption to disassemble the revolver completely, and undertake some of the sanding and polishing, but usually my best efforts mechanically are akin to pathetic. The gun smith at the shop in the town where we used to live told me he wouldn't charge me for labor for anything I wanted done, just parts only, if I'd let him do the work first. He said it was easier and faster for him to do it right first than it was to fix what I "fixed." More realistically, I may send this gun off somewhere to have a professional action job done on it someday. In the meantime, I just want to fire it some to break it in, and maybe smooth out the action as I described above.