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echo: guns
to: PAUL NIXON
from: VERN HUMPHREY
date: 1996-05-25 07:48:00
subject: 1911 Triggers

PN>My 1911 is going off to the smith for some trigger work.  The previous
PN>owner had done some grinding...to the point where the pull is less than
PN>crisp and 'way too light for an everyday carry SA.
PN>Anybody have any thoughts on an "ideal" trigger job?
Around 4 1/2 pounds for an M1911, with a clean break and as little
overtravel as possible.   You'll never get as nice a trigger with an
auto pistol as you will on a fine revolver -- and no smith worth his
sear stones would even try.
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