alienbogey
Bearcat
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- Nov 14, 2008
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Background: I've been very unhappy with my SR9's trigger, to the point where it has been languishing in the safe, and I've been hanging on for the Ghost trigger upgrades to materialize from vaporware status.
So, I went for the Ghost Rocket (the one with the overtravel stop) and yesterday started the install.
I decided to do jhearne's polish per the sticky at the same time. It took me about 2.5 hours to tear the pistol apart per Ghost's instructions, do all the polishing, and get it back together to find, as expected, that the trigger did not function due to the necessity of grinding down the tab increment by increment until it allowed trigger function with minimum overtravel.
Out of curiosity I timed my teardown/grind/reassemble times: The first took 9 minutes. By my last few adjustments I was averaging 6 minutes and 15 seconds from a fully assembled pistol to down to the shop to grind away another .01" to back up to my desk and a reassembled pistol. Learning curves are good things.
The most difficult part of the process I found was the reassembly of the Fire Control Housing with the trigger bar, trigger bar reset, lift spring, safety detent and spring and safety all having to be held simultaneously and manipulated with all three hands at the same time.
In particular, Ghost could well use another picture or two at different angles from the right side of all of the above reassembled - I had a devil of a time figuring just exactly how they all went back together.
Results
The good: It all did go back together. My son and I fired 200 rounds through it today with no malfunctions. The trigger is much smoother and somewhat lighter.
The smoothness I attribute mostly or all to the polishing of internals per the sticky. The gritty crunchiness that I hated is gone. Again, my guess is that this is mostly due to the polishing.
The trigger is lighter.
The disappointing:
It is not as light as I expected and in my non-objective judgement not a 3.5# trigger.
It definitely reduced the pull. Before the change I hooked up a baby scale to a makeshift wire to the trigger and the pull was 14-15# as measured. After the Ghost it was 8-9#. Note: The # amount is not important because of the jury rig and ancient scale, but the change in the #'s does give a fair indication of the proportional amount of reduction.
Bottom line: Although I'm a bit disappointed due to high expectations, The polish and Ghost Rocket has changed my trigger from gritty, crunchy and unacceptably heavy to smooth and medium - a big improvement.
So, I went for the Ghost Rocket (the one with the overtravel stop) and yesterday started the install.
I decided to do jhearne's polish per the sticky at the same time. It took me about 2.5 hours to tear the pistol apart per Ghost's instructions, do all the polishing, and get it back together to find, as expected, that the trigger did not function due to the necessity of grinding down the tab increment by increment until it allowed trigger function with minimum overtravel.
Out of curiosity I timed my teardown/grind/reassemble times: The first took 9 minutes. By my last few adjustments I was averaging 6 minutes and 15 seconds from a fully assembled pistol to down to the shop to grind away another .01" to back up to my desk and a reassembled pistol. Learning curves are good things.
The most difficult part of the process I found was the reassembly of the Fire Control Housing with the trigger bar, trigger bar reset, lift spring, safety detent and spring and safety all having to be held simultaneously and manipulated with all three hands at the same time.
In particular, Ghost could well use another picture or two at different angles from the right side of all of the above reassembled - I had a devil of a time figuring just exactly how they all went back together.
Results
The good: It all did go back together. My son and I fired 200 rounds through it today with no malfunctions. The trigger is much smoother and somewhat lighter.
The smoothness I attribute mostly or all to the polishing of internals per the sticky. The gritty crunchiness that I hated is gone. Again, my guess is that this is mostly due to the polishing.
The trigger is lighter.
The disappointing:
It is not as light as I expected and in my non-objective judgement not a 3.5# trigger.
It definitely reduced the pull. Before the change I hooked up a baby scale to a makeshift wire to the trigger and the pull was 14-15# as measured. After the Ghost it was 8-9#. Note: The # amount is not important because of the jury rig and ancient scale, but the change in the #'s does give a fair indication of the proportional amount of reduction.
Bottom line: Although I'm a bit disappointed due to high expectations, The polish and Ghost Rocket has changed my trigger from gritty, crunchy and unacceptably heavy to smooth and medium - a big improvement.