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I fired an S&W Model 29 (Dirty Harry in stainless) yesterday. The revolver obviously had some trigger work because the DA pull was delightfully light and smooth, until you got to the break point. A piece of rubber had been installed on the trigger or in the housing slot to indicate when the gun was about to fire. This took the trigger from great to something well north of 10#. Didn't matter whether you were firing it in SA or DA. Felt like you needed two fingers to pull the trigger.

I've never heard of anyone doing this. Is this something people do? The only reason I could come up with is that someone had been a bit too aggressive in improving the sear and put this in to compensate.

Have shot a few S&W revolvers and they have impressed me as having the best DA trigger pull of anything I have ever shot in a stock gun. You really can tell when it goes from DA to SA. See no need to make the trigger that heavy with a rubber pad, probably the on;y guy with enough hand strength to shoot that is Jery Miculek. That man has tremendous hand strength and his guns do not have light triggers, they need to be heavy to reset as fast as he shoots them. Last summer at the range I got to shoot on of those S&W custom shop guns and it was really sweet.

I've always liked the S&W triggers, even when they are fairly heavy like my 442. The S&W triggers seem to build tension smoothly. My GP100 seems to have a noticeable spike in force required. Once you adjust to the trigger, either allows you to smoothly fire in DA. For a long time most of my shooting with DA revolvers was in single action. I've pretty much reversed that in the past 18 months.

I'm pretty sure the M29 had a lighter spring. It had a wonderfully light DA pull, until you got to the end. Then it was a two men and small boy effort to get it the last fraction. The first time I fired it I thought there was something wrong with the gun.

I'll take the lighter trigger pull. If I tried to shoot as fast as JM, the only steel plate I'd hit would have to be painted gray and have high performance jet aircraft parked on the top.

greener wrote:
I'll take the lighter trigger pull. If I tried to shoot as fast as JM, the only steel plate I'd hit would have to be painted gray and have high performance jet aircraft parked on the top.

Best way to do that would be to be on the inside, damn near have to hit it from that direction.
Jerry has tremendous hand strength, if he took you hand and squeezed hard you would need surgery or total hand replacement if available. Watched some of his shows and he shoots so faster he requires the heavier spring to return the trigger or he would easily outrun the gun Looks like he shoots a relatively light load or else he has wrists so strong the muzzle flip is canceled out. I have an old H&R Sportsman that has a fairly nice trigger and you can really feel the transition point and you can hold it there until you pull the trigger further.