DLB-NRAlife said:
You are right, the trigger does nothing to improve or lighten pull but I prefer a smooth trigger and I like the overtravel adjustment.
If you're referring to the VC
"smooth face trigger", I'm with you. I like a smooth face trigger and have altered many
Clark Custom triggers to that condition. Ribs and points on a trigger shoe face is more annoying than helpful. It's too dang bad that Clark will not sell triggers any longer, but only when full-house trigger jobs are done by them. The idea of having over-travel and the pre-travel screws, as the VC triggers have, is to get you ready to go again in short order, taking up pretty much all the trigger movement that doesn't do anything.
The VC sear is the main contributor to a much lighter trigger pull, but you need to get the final design from Volquartsen for the Mark IV pistols, if you went through the recall. The VC sear was made in at least three configurations, two involving the work-up for the Mark IV, one before and another after the recall. I do stock all three versions and continually experiment to see how each will work in all the Ruger Mark varieties, including the Mark I.
If anything, the Mark IV is a very nice version. Ruger tried their best to not allow modifications to these guns, but with a bit of study and experimentation, almost every aspect involved with the Mark IV can be safely over-come, if so desired.