dpsk
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I installed an APEX polymer action enhancement trigger in my -9c yesterday and took it to the range today. First off, I only bought the basic kit, which includes the polymer trigger and heavy duty sear spring. Of that, I only installed the trigger, as I wanted to try it with the stock M&P sear spring.
I'm very happy with the results using just the trigger, and will likely keep the stock sear spring in the pistol. Installation was fairly straight forward, but getting the trigger pin back in through the trigger return spring is a royal pain in the arse! APEX includes a slave pin to help get things started, but the return spring would slip off the slave pin when trying to drive the trigger pin through. I think it took me about 7 tries to finally get things back together.
Having said that, it's a doable job but takes a ton of patience and a bit of finesse.
As I said, I'm very happy and somewhat amazed at the results. I wouldn't have believed that replacing just the trigger "shoe" would result in as big an improvement over the stock hinged trigger as it does. APEX advertises that their polymer trigger has less take-up and over travel as compared to stock, and I fully concur with that. While there's still a bit more take-up as compared to other popular striker fired pistols, it's certainly a noticeable improvement over the stock hinged design. The best part is there is nearly no over travel. The way APEX designed the trigger to reduce over travel is quite simple yet ingenious. The "feel" of the trigger is also better to me (granted - that's a subjective statement). Overall, the break feels lighter yet crisp. The feel of the reset is basically the same, with the exception that there's less forward trigger travel to reset because of the reduced over travel.
I put about 150 rounds through it and it functioned 100% reliably. I bought the kit from BravoTac online for $37.99, with no tax and free USPS 3-5 day shipping. It took 3 business days for it to arrive in my mailbox.
After all's said and done, it would be really nice if S&W would include an APEX trigger design in the M&P pistol line. My guess is S&W had to use the hinged design as a result of the Glock lawsuit some years back. Thank goodness that APEX is around for those of us who don't particularly care for the hinged trigger.
I'm very happy with the results using just the trigger, and will likely keep the stock sear spring in the pistol. Installation was fairly straight forward, but getting the trigger pin back in through the trigger return spring is a royal pain in the arse! APEX includes a slave pin to help get things started, but the return spring would slip off the slave pin when trying to drive the trigger pin through. I think it took me about 7 tries to finally get things back together.
Having said that, it's a doable job but takes a ton of patience and a bit of finesse.
As I said, I'm very happy and somewhat amazed at the results. I wouldn't have believed that replacing just the trigger "shoe" would result in as big an improvement over the stock hinged trigger as it does. APEX advertises that their polymer trigger has less take-up and over travel as compared to stock, and I fully concur with that. While there's still a bit more take-up as compared to other popular striker fired pistols, it's certainly a noticeable improvement over the stock hinged design. The best part is there is nearly no over travel. The way APEX designed the trigger to reduce over travel is quite simple yet ingenious. The "feel" of the trigger is also better to me (granted - that's a subjective statement). Overall, the break feels lighter yet crisp. The feel of the reset is basically the same, with the exception that there's less forward trigger travel to reset because of the reduced over travel.
I put about 150 rounds through it and it functioned 100% reliably. I bought the kit from BravoTac online for $37.99, with no tax and free USPS 3-5 day shipping. It took 3 business days for it to arrive in my mailbox.
After all's said and done, it would be really nice if S&W would include an APEX trigger design in the M&P pistol line. My guess is S&W had to use the hinged design as a result of the Glock lawsuit some years back. Thank goodness that APEX is around for those of us who don't particularly care for the hinged trigger.
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