Sal1950
Blackhawk
I promised to post the result of my experiments with lightening the striker spring so here it is. Basically I've had little success going down that road in a way that kind of surprised me, it wasn't light strikes that became an issue, it was the failure of the trigger to return (reset) after firing? This was something I had not expected or heard of before from users here who had cut their springs, but I do know that user mattbren ran into a similar issue with his experiments using heavier trigger bar springs to lighten trigger pull.
After obtaining a few extra striker springs from Ruger I cut and re-flattened the end for a OAL of 1.460 (stock is about 1.610). While racking the slide and dry firing everything seemed fine but at the range the trigger would either be sluggish to return or actually need to be bumped forward manually to reset about every fifth shot or so. I then cut another spring to a OAL 1.530, splitting the difference. This resulted in reducing the sluggish return to only on rare occasions, maybe once in 23-30 shots but the issue was still there.
As to trigger pull weight, I have the gun fully polished as per Josh's instructions and a Ghost Rocket installed. This resulted in a very nice pull at just a hair over 5 pounds. The first cut brought the pull down to 4 pounds but was unusable due to the return issue. The second cut gives about a 4.5 pound pull but again I would never consider this a carry gun with even the limited issue that resulted. I'm going to leave it like this for a while longer to see if the issue goes away after another 500 rounds or so, if not it's back to stock.
There just seems to be a very delicate balance between the forces of the striker spring, trigger bar spring, and the over all friction the trigger has. There have been reports of many sr9 series weapons having either the trigger return issue or light strikes out of the box and being returned for service, so it appears that even Ruger has struggled with this balance issue. I was hoping to get my gun around 3-3.5 pounds but at this point it doesn't seem like that's possible, I can and do work around light strike issues in many of my weapons with the proper choice of primers, etc, when reloading, but this trigger return issue is a show stopper. I will continue to keep my eye open for further answers to the return problem and will test again if I run into anything that appears to be an answer but for now I think I'm done.
But hey, I'm open to suggestions.
All in all I still think a polished and Ghost Rocket installed SR9C offers the best striker fired trigger I've ever experienced, I'd just like to make it a little better yet. LOL
Sal
After obtaining a few extra striker springs from Ruger I cut and re-flattened the end for a OAL of 1.460 (stock is about 1.610). While racking the slide and dry firing everything seemed fine but at the range the trigger would either be sluggish to return or actually need to be bumped forward manually to reset about every fifth shot or so. I then cut another spring to a OAL 1.530, splitting the difference. This resulted in reducing the sluggish return to only on rare occasions, maybe once in 23-30 shots but the issue was still there.
As to trigger pull weight, I have the gun fully polished as per Josh's instructions and a Ghost Rocket installed. This resulted in a very nice pull at just a hair over 5 pounds. The first cut brought the pull down to 4 pounds but was unusable due to the return issue. The second cut gives about a 4.5 pound pull but again I would never consider this a carry gun with even the limited issue that resulted. I'm going to leave it like this for a while longer to see if the issue goes away after another 500 rounds or so, if not it's back to stock.
There just seems to be a very delicate balance between the forces of the striker spring, trigger bar spring, and the over all friction the trigger has. There have been reports of many sr9 series weapons having either the trigger return issue or light strikes out of the box and being returned for service, so it appears that even Ruger has struggled with this balance issue. I was hoping to get my gun around 3-3.5 pounds but at this point it doesn't seem like that's possible, I can and do work around light strike issues in many of my weapons with the proper choice of primers, etc, when reloading, but this trigger return issue is a show stopper. I will continue to keep my eye open for further answers to the return problem and will test again if I run into anything that appears to be an answer but for now I think I'm done.
But hey, I'm open to suggestions.
All in all I still think a polished and Ghost Rocket installed SR9C offers the best striker fired trigger I've ever experienced, I'd just like to make it a little better yet. LOL
Sal