An educational Saturday

[shelby1941]

I received in the mail today the VQ Target Trigger and the Target Sear for my 5.5 bull bbl MKII. Following Bullseyes excellent instruction I was able to install both in a reasonable amount of time. After reassembly the hammer wouldn't release. Lesson number 1--Install new parts one at a time so in case of a problem you know where it is. I had installed the trigger with the pre travel and over travel backed all the way out so I tried changing the sear back to the original part. Still no go. I then replaced the stock sear with the VG and then changed trigger back to the stock trigger with high hopes. Still no luck. Since I couldn't think of anything else to try I smoothed my stock sear face with a fine ceramic stone, took 2 swipes thru the notch in the hammer, polished everything I could think of and reinstalled my stock parts. Success. Creep, at least to my finger, was nearly gone and trigger pull whick wasn't too bad to begin with had improver slightly. I felt that it was very unlikely that both VG parts were defective or out of spec and I had another MKII to play with. Same scenario as above and same results. It was all in all a very frustrating day but several goods came from it. 1. I am much faster tearing down and reassembling a MKII. 2. I have 2 parts from Brownells that I will return for a $50 credit. 3. I have 2 pistols that I now am happy with their performance. If anyone can think of what I may have done wrong with the VG parts, please let me know. By the way I did function fire 20 rounds in each pistol and they operated perfectly. Thanks Shelby Chastain

[Bullseye]

If you contact VQ they will send you a new sear. I know that they have had some of their sears go out that were out of specifications. Mostly for the same problem you've described. Write (email) Nic Volquartsen and he'll make it right.

R,
Bullseye