type of trigger job name?

[dcnblues]

I don't know what to call the trigger job a smith did to the 586 I had in the 80's, but I'm considering buying one of the new 'classic' re-releases as I'd like to duplicate my old gun, and would like the same thing done to the action. Basically, the gunsmith put a 'notch' in the double action pull, so the shooter could feel a stop, pause, aim, then shoot with only the single action pull. Release the pull, pull back to this notch, shoot, repeat. Very efficient, very effective at shooting rapidly (or at least with a time limit) for falling plate.

It turns out that's not called a trigger stop (I know what that is now). But I don't know what to call it, and am not sure if I found out and had it done whether it would void the gun's warranty. I sure would like to find one person who knows what I'm describing, as I'm not having much luck with anyone who knows what I'm talking about. The gun dealer sent it to his smith, and I didn't get the name. This would have been in Santa Barbara around 1984. What is this action tune called? Thanks...

 

[Laketime]

It sounds like the buffer installment where the action becomes a stacked action like the Python.This was trendy in the 80's to do.

 

[dcnblues]

*Edit, nope, apparently 'stacked' means increasing pull "Some triggers (Colt, Dan Wesson) continually increase their pull weight toward the end of the stroke, an effect called "stacking".

That's not what I'm talking about. The job I had done arrested a double action pull, let you pause to aim, and then had a clean single-action like break. Essentially, it turned a double action pull into a cocked, single action state (although if you let up, the hammer would return down to uncocked).

 

[Protocall_Design]

A lot of PPC shooters did that with a rubber pencil eraser glued on the back of the trigger, filed down to where it would stop just before the release. Then a slight compression of the eraser would fire the gun. Someone made a setscrew trigger stop with a rubber end to do the same thing. You can probably get the effect you're wanting by putting a piece of 0 ring in the rebound spring, cut to just the right length. Hard to say what the gunsmith may have done without seeing the gun.

 

[jmd025]

i have no clue what its called, but i have two model 64s that were ex dallas police dept guns that have trigger pulls exactly as you describe... and man do they shoot well.

stroke pause aim fire. stroke pause aim fire

 

[dcnblues]

Thanks toolguy, but it's not my impression that rubber was part of the equation. And thanks, jmd, good to get one person who knows what I'm talking about. When I first shot mine I thought 'why aren't they all like this?'

 

[shovelwrench]

Heck, I thought K-frames, clean/timed right/and smoothed, just did this on their own.....

 

[tomcatt51]

Heck, I thought K-frames, clean/timed right/and smoothed, just did this on their own.....

If the hand is a bit "too" thick they do. But to get a consistent pull on all holes the ratchets need careful equalizing and as the parts wear the "stacking" at the end of the pull goes away.

Rubber bumpers were pretty common but seem to have fallen from favor.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I prefer my triggers to go smoothly straight through. I have found it's faster to not stop, also, if I stop, I'm more likely to pull the last part a little sideways. If you're not going for speed (PPC, Bullseye, etc.) it's not as much of an issue. Horses for courses.