I‘ve read and followed Josh’s excellent tutorial on tear down and polishing of the trigger assembly and it has resulted in a much smoother trigger pull. Like many of you, I have also anxiously anticipated the release of the Ghost trigger connector with the promise of a much lighter trigger pull. However, while waiting and waiting, I’ve been thinking a lot about how a simple trigger connector is going to give us the reduced trigger weight we all so desperately want, and I just don’t get it.
I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way I see it, the trigger connector (trigger bar reset) serves two basic functions. The first is to deflect the trigger bar downward at the end of the trigger stroke to disengage the sear from the striker tab. The second is to get out of the way to allow the trigger bar to reset. The first function is controlled by the angled tab and changing that angle will simply change the length of the trigger stroke before the sear disengages. The second function is a timing function controlled by the upper tab and the cam in the slide, so changing that would only change the trigger reset.
I’m happy with the length of the trigger pull and the trigger reset, all I want is a lighter trigger.
So it seems to me that the only two things that directly affect the weight of the trigger pull are the striker spring and the trigger bar spring (and some friction which the polishing helped reduce). I’ve read other posts about cutting the striker spring which I’m sure would reduce the trigger pull, but I’m not going to do that because I want my gun to go bang every time I pull the trigger. So that leaves the trigger bar spring. It’s only purposes in life that I can determine are to counter the weight of the striker spring, and to continue pulling the trigger bar rearward after the sear releases.
All this considered, can we get the lower trigger weight we want simply by increasing the weight of the trigger bar spring and providing a greater offset to the striker spring? If so, does anyone know what the weight of the stock trigger bar spring is? Would there be any detrimental affects to doing this?
I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way I see it, the trigger connector (trigger bar reset) serves two basic functions. The first is to deflect the trigger bar downward at the end of the trigger stroke to disengage the sear from the striker tab. The second is to get out of the way to allow the trigger bar to reset. The first function is controlled by the angled tab and changing that angle will simply change the length of the trigger stroke before the sear disengages. The second function is a timing function controlled by the upper tab and the cam in the slide, so changing that would only change the trigger reset.
I’m happy with the length of the trigger pull and the trigger reset, all I want is a lighter trigger.
So it seems to me that the only two things that directly affect the weight of the trigger pull are the striker spring and the trigger bar spring (and some friction which the polishing helped reduce). I’ve read other posts about cutting the striker spring which I’m sure would reduce the trigger pull, but I’m not going to do that because I want my gun to go bang every time I pull the trigger. So that leaves the trigger bar spring. It’s only purposes in life that I can determine are to counter the weight of the striker spring, and to continue pulling the trigger bar rearward after the sear releases.
All this considered, can we get the lower trigger weight we want simply by increasing the weight of the trigger bar spring and providing a greater offset to the striker spring? If so, does anyone know what the weight of the stock trigger bar spring is? Would there be any detrimental affects to doing this?