Went to the range last Saturday. Tried out 3 fairly different revolvers:

My (actually my wife's) Registered Magnum.

Rental 629-3.

My Rossi Model 31.

Everybody says that the Registered Magnum has a sweet trigger.

I was loading 2 revolvers at a time, and firing them alternately, double action.

The Registered Magnum has a sweet trigger.

The Rossi was terrible. The 629-3 was sometimes close to the RM, but sometimes it had a hitch in its getalong.

The Registered Magnum had a nice smooth consistent long pull that seemed to have a uniform force the whole way.

Is it possible to get a nice stainless revolver with a trigger like that? Say a 629 from the Performance Center? Or with a trigger job from the performance center or someone else?

Or do is that only available on pistols with the old long action?

Or is it only available on Registered Magnums?

We had a forum discussion of benchmarks, and they are certainly much abused on all sides, but they are also sometimes legitimate.

Right now the Registered Magnum is my benchmark for double action revolver triggers.

In the hands of a competant gunsmith the stainless revolver can have as nice a trigger as the RM. Use the RM as your benchmark and have the rest of your Smith's brought up to the RM standards.

Sorry, but there isn't much you can do for the RG, oops Rossi.

At the risk of sounding like a snob,your findings come as no suprise.Rossi revolvers are nothing to write home about to begin with.
The action/lockwork on your 629 can be smoothed up a bit,to compare more closely to the RM. As far as shooting the RM, I'd just clean it up really well and put that puppy in the safe.Its' value can only go up as time goes on..

The time just isn't spent in fitting the new ones that was spent in the pre-war years, not even for Performance Shop guns. New parts are made to tighter tolerences, so the cutom fitting skills have been lost. Even the old non-target run-of-the-mill M&Ps had smoother actions out of the box than modern guns. With aftermarket springs and a gunsmith that will spend the time polishing and fitting everything, you can have a modern (pre-mim) action that is smooth as butter that you can be proud of.
I personally prefer the old long actions, but I have handled several properly reworked short actions that felt really 'sexy'.

Glypnir, I feel sorry for you in the way I would feel for a guy that lost his virginity to Raquel Welch. Some benchmarks are just higher than others. So just smile, look of in the distance and think to yourself "Oooh Yeah!"
Oscar Zulu

Pics please (except the Rossi)!

Even the Rossi can be improved, but not in the same league as either of the Smiths.
I have a pre WWII N-frame right here, and there is nothing that matches the trigger on them.

You started out at the top, and now you have nowhere to go....


Mark

Thanks for all the comments. I'm happy to post pics of the RM, didn't take my camera to the range and take pics of the rental 629.

Yer just spoiled now!!!

Nice RM !

Just too cool...congratulations!

MOONDAWG