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[Mitch95]

Who is 'the best' in the business when it comes to the following maintenance and upgrades? All suggestions welcome hard to find comprehensive lists.

Please list Name of Person, Location, Business if applicable, Website if applicable, etc

-Action Job
-Dehorn/Bob Hammer
-Polish and/or Jewel
-Full Takedown and Deep Cleaning
-Barrel Shortening
-Porting
-Cut and Crown Barrel

Any other favorite mods or upgrades to your Smiths over the years would love to hear about or see what the finished product looks like!

Mitchell

 

[Protocall_Design]

For the best action, go to RevUpAction.com. We have a patented drop in hammer kit that you can do yourself, or have a local gunsmith trade parts, don't have to send the gun anywhere. For now, these are for the newer guns with the firing pin in the frame. Very smooth, very light. The 2 most desirable features of a trigger pull.

This kit makes the trigger pull get lighter and lighter, to where it's at single action pull weight by the end. I invented and built a special trigger pull gage that shows what the trigger is doing all the way through the pull. The point of this is to have the control of single action over where the shot goes. It's the best of both worlds - the speed and convenience of DA with the accuracy of SA. There are 15 second videos on the website that show this in action.

 

[Mitch95]

For the best action, go to RevUpAction.com. We have a patented drop in hammer kit that you can do yourself, or have a local gunsmith trade parts, don't have to send the gun anywhere. For now, these are for the newer guns with the firing pin in the frame. Very smooth, very light. The 2 most desirable features of a trigger pull.

This kit makes the trigger pull get lighter and lighter, to where it's at single action pull weight by the end. I invented and built a special trigger pull gage that shows what the trigger is doing all the way through the pull. The point of this is to have the control of single action over where the shot goes. It's the best of both worlds - the speed and convenience of DA with the accuracy of SA. There are 15 second videos on the website that show this in action.

Thank you for the input and I see exactly what you mean by the reduction in pull weight as the pull continues considerably past anything with stock parts.

I have a few questions to follow up with as I noticed you have 2 variations.

When it comes to federal primers, are they the most tolerant of light hammer/pin strikes of all ammo? OR is it more of a situation where Federal has the most tolerant primers of the main 3-5 primary ammo brands that people seek for competition shooting of varying organizations?

How would this affect a .22lr with rimfire primers of any brand versus other k or l frames using only federal centerfire primers?

 

[Protocall_Design]

Federal has the easiest to set off primers of all the USA brands. CCI is the hardest. Winchester and Remington are somewhere in between, with Win. being second choice. I don't know where all the foreign brands rate, as I have never used any of them. Rumor has it that the newest CCIs are soft like Federal, but I have not been able to verify that. Many people don't make the connection that the ammunition used plays a large role in how light the action can be reliable.

Rimfire primers are always harder to set off than centerfire. The hammer kit is designed so you can dial the mainspring tension up or down to fire whatever primer you have or can get at any given time. This way the gun owner has control over what ammo the gun can use, and is not stuck with just an action job that someone else far away did that will only work on Federal primers.

 

[Bullseye Smith]

You should just buy what you want in a new gun, what you want done will cost 2 to 3 grand to get done. I built a 686-5 with the four inch tapped barrel, bobed the hammer because the double action pull is 3lbs. Shoots 9mm, 38 short colts, and 38 super. plus it use moon clips. With my heart I can't do all that now, but if you search for me on here you will see alot of my builds.

 

[BigGunGuy]

Performance Center gunsmiths

Smith and Wesson Performance Center gunsmiths do excellent trigger work.

 

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