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Originally Posted by BUICKMAN
I am looking for a smoother trigger pull. Mine seems a little rough almost like it has some grit in it.
Thank you, les
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for a smoother pull, you're gonna be into either detail stripping the gun and doing a good polish job on certain points of the factory parts, or getting one of the apex parts kits. the trigger shoe itself doesn't have anything to do with the grit you're feeling. you can get apex kits with or without the trigger shoe. they are known as "duty\carry" kits.
all depends on how far you feel like going. The most common cause of the grit is from how the trigger bar interfaces the striker block. if you pull out the striker block and stone it to a more dome shape and polish it up and then hone and polish the trigger bar, the grit will go bye bye. Only problem for a lot of people is that you have to pull the rear sight off to remove the striker block. if thats not a big deal for you, then you could just go that route. If I'm not already putting in the apex parts, I'll take out my striker blocks and lightly chuck them into a cordless drill, make sure its relatively centered, and use the drill to spin it while using some kind of grit to hone it down to more of a dome shape. then dremel felt wheel with flitz or polishing compound.
S&W's manufacturing of their trigger bars is a weak point of a lot of these guns. Many of them are left with tool marks or rough edges contributing to that gritty uptake.
if you're fine with the way the trigger breaks, there's no real reason to do the whole apex kit with the sear and springs... you could just drop in their USB (ultimate striker block) if you don't wanna go the honing\polishing route.
There are some pretty good vids out there on doing all these types of "upgrades". you can just hit up youtube and see if its something you wanna mess with. Even if its a video on a full sized gun, the process on the shield is almost identical.