Galloway Trigger kit BG2

[M1A4ME]

For anyone that buys/installs one of the GP triggers, please start a thread on it and share info on how well the install goes and your impressions of trigger pull feel and the trigger pull weight.

I've installed four of them on full size and Shield pistols and I'm curious about these, too.

 

[Phenix]

I'll get excited when somebody comes up with something better than that useless manual safety lever.
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I will agree with that.
The safeties on the three new ones I have examined had safeties that were so hard to operate that they were basically useless.
I bought one anyway. It took me a month of working the safety on and off 50-100 times, 4 to 5 days a week while watching TV or sitting on the front porch to break it in to where it worked without having to use excessive force.
Smith needs to remedy this, and make the bump on the safety protrude more. A trigger kit to make it 2 to 3 pounds heavier is something that should be an option from an aftermarket supplier. The factory triggers are so light that some pocket carriers having guns without the thumb safeties are going to have ADs when the trigger catches on a piece of fabric while drawing or re-holstering.

 

[pinefd]

I ordered one of these the minute I saw it posted here, not because I necessarily feel that this gun needs it, but because for $28 shipped, why not? Hopefully the installation won't be too difficult such that I can do it myself, and swap back if I don't like it. Anyway, the trigger is supposed to arrive today, and Galloway posted their installation video for it today as well, but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Unfortunately, with a house full of visitors this week (the perils of owning beachfront property), I likely won't be able to do anything with this until next week. Here's the install video:




Frank

 

[tarheel13]

Hopefully the installation won't be too difficult such that I can do it myself, and swap back if I don't like it. Anyway, the trigger is supposed to arrive today, and Galloway posted their installation video for it today as well, but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
Frank

The install does not look difficult. I'm happy with the factory trigger, but I will be interested in the experience you have with your install.

 

[pinefd]

The install does not look difficult. I'm happy with the factory trigger, but I will be interested in the experience you have with your install.

Correction to my post above...it was another "toy" that arrived today and not the trigger. It's still going to be another couple of days before the trigger arrives, and yes, I'll report back on my experience with both the install and the performance.


Frank

 

[GnarlsR2]

Eric at Galloway told me by way of e-mail on August 15 that they will have a stronger striker spring that should be out by year end. He said they will offer it mainly to make primer strike more positive. He add that the new spring should add 1.5 to 2 lbs to the trigger pull.

Same e-mail said they are working with the spring maker on several projects. So, like many things, it is said to be in the works.

PS: I do not do Facebook or instagram etc... how do they announce new offerings?

I definitely do not want to add pull to my stock trigger at 4 lbs. 2.4 ozs.
I also do not understand why there needs to be a stronger striker spring?
My striker appears to have more than sufficient force to hit the primer.
I do not like the striker drag. Its the only firearm I own that has striker drag.
I read that a stronger striker spring may eliminate the striker drag.
The bad thing is.... I will have to drift the rear sight off to replace the factory spring with the Galloway Precision one.

 

[tarheel13]

Its the only firearm I own that has striker drag.
Will a stronger striker spring eliminate the striker drag?

What is striker drag? How do you know you have it?

 

[GnarlsR2]

What is striker drag? How do you know you have it?

See the photo above?

 

[tarheel13]

See the photo above?

Yes, I see the photo which seems to show an off center or expanded primer strike. What causes that? Is it the off center chambering of the round or a problem with the firing pin? I don't think I've seen that before.