Put a tandem kross trigger in my Victory. Had difficulty adjusting the reset. Began to become difficult to rack. Put a Halo ringon it, still tough. Shelved it for a few months.
Dug it out yesterday. Played with the adjustment, no matter what I couldn't rack it. Disassembled it. The actual problem was the roll pin in the hammer, it was floating in the hole fetching on the link from the trigger.
New style hammer ordered from T/K. It has new style pin to prevent this very problem.
Trigger adjusts fine now.
After installing new hammer, it's off to the range.
Effective cooling off period.

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Bob P.

glad you got things sorted. I'm sticking with the stock trigger as I have no issues with it as it of course is not a carry piece so the trigger does not bother me . I shot it at the local club rimfire tactical match yesterday along with my TCr22. Both worked great.

Prior to the match I did some polishing to the Victory. The raised areas on the bolt, extractor slot, sides of the Volquartsen ejector and feed ramp.

I just like to trick them out. Every model is a learning experience.

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well I have a brand new one and love it. hell I could fall down shooting and still hit the target I mean it is that good. I don't intend on doing anything to this gun but shoot it.
To each his own, right.

I have always wanted one of these & now that Arthur is starting to effect my grip I am looking for best deal on one.
SMITH & WESSON VICTORY 22LR 5.5" THREADED BARREL

I put the Tandemkross trigger in mine about 6 months ago and haven't had a problem. Just received their Thunder hammer, clever packaging idea, but haven't installed it yet. If anyone has, does it really lighten up the trigger pull? According to their website, installing both could drop the pull to under 2 lbs, which would be too light for some sanctioned competitions.

I bought my Victory with FO sights a month back figuring I would not really like it. ( I've always been a Ruger MK series guy.) I was thrilled to be wrong. It's been as reliable as a hammer and shoots better than I can. Trigger is very decent. Sights are great. "Feel" , balance and ergonomics are even good.
So, out of habit, and thinking the gun would "need" upgrades, I ordered the full boat kit from TK before the gun arrived. To be honest, although I installed it all ( mainly because I had it.). I actually preferred the factory version over most of the mods. ( I do like the hive grip though.) I'm in the process of backing some of those parts out/ modifying them to my liking. That says allot as it's rare I can recommend an inexpensive pistol right out of the box.

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Had a lot of light strikes, not to happy. I also put in a TK extractor, some failure to ejects. Only took one type of ammo, Bucket of Bullets. The Victory never had a problem with these before. Obviously not a happy camper! The extractor is swapped back. I will experiment with the hammer. I'll keep you posted.

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Had the Good Fortune of firing a Victory on Tuesday night of this week. A new one with the threaded Barrel. It was its 1st time out of the Box. For such an inexpensive pistol it handled and shot extremely well. We were shooting CCI -SV ammo thru it and some Remington Bucket stuff. Handled both with NO sweat If I didn't have my M41 and M46 i would probably buy one myself. I would recommend this pistol to any New shooter at any gunclub in the Country.

I've been having a love/hate relationship with my Victory. I installed the Tandemkross trigger and so far I'm kinda like "Meh" about it. Honestly there's nothing wrong with the stock trigger. My problem I have with the Tandemkross was the first hundred rounds or so was light & crisp trigger but then the trigger got really heavy. Not sure if dirt got in there somewhere or what.

That and whenever I'm at the range, the gun runs fine but as soon as I take it to a match, that is when all the screws start coming loose and FTE's suddenly appear when the day before I would shoot hundreds of rounds w/o a single failure... lol

I am starting to rethink putting this after market in properly functioning guns. Self inflicted problems.

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I'm with you! I put the Hive grips on and an aluminum rail with an integral rear sight. Also added a cheap red dot (Primary Arms refurbished). It is so much fun to shoot the ammo manufacturers are going to have a hard time keeping up with me. I think the stock trigger is great for my purposes.

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Went to the range this afternoon, took three brands of ammo. Remington had failure to feed 5 times out of twenty shots. Agulia had 20 fail to fire out of 50 rounds. Federal functioned flawlessly 50 out of 50. Putting the original extractor back in alleviated the failure to eject issue. My Victory is fickle about ammo. I'm going to pick up some more different types and see what is what. Thanks for listening and contributing.

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I suspect your extractor was not bent over far enough to work properly for you. Thats why the different brands of ammo did not work correctly for you. Every shell casing is slightly different then the next brand in sizing altho they look so similar in appearance. If your extractor is not set dead on then you will experience these issues.

If it lightened the pull it was un-perceivable. I wonder if they bought the packaging from a greeting card company?

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I replaced the extractor with one from Volquatsen, polished the extractor slot, polished the feed ramp as well as the raised ribs on the bolt. I have not had any issues feeding any ammo. Even some old Thunderbolt I bought years ago.

Shame you have to add aftermarket stuff to get an operable gun. I thought about one of those. I’m out now

Mine ran fine right out of the box. Never an issue with it. I just like to tinker and try to improve performance. Some things work and some don't.

I've never left an automobile I've owned completely unaltered from the factory either.

That's very odd. My victory eats up Aguila as well as anything except some old Thunderbolt that I had.

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