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Cost of a 1911 trigger job.
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Second this. Greg is a competitive shooter and probably has been doing work on 1911s (a mainstay to the bullseye folks) for many years. He regularly competes at Braintree R&P as well as Sharon F&G and can be met there after a match for drop-off or pick-up to make it more convenient than driving to Marshfield for you. Greg does great work and is well worth the money. [He did do work for me on a 1911 that had been abused but I didn't have him do a trigger job, so can't answer the direct question.]
BEC may also be worth talking to. Ask Lou how much experience he has had working on 1911s . . . as I don't know. He's in Peabody IIRC.
I'm not a 1911 fan by any means, but i know high caliber work when i see it. Business End Customs is who you want to see.
When a renowned pistol smith and master of his craft like Chuck Rogers (http://www.rogersprecision.com/) is recommending Lou at BEC that speak volumes of the quality of his work
When a renowned pistol smith and master of his craft like Chuck Rogers (http://www.rogersprecision.com/) is recommending Lou at BEC that speak volumes of the quality of his work
This. ^^^ All of it. Love my 1911 that Greg worked on but no trigger job. It was a factory comp pistol though.
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With a jig and an arkansas stone, yes it is. But it can go wrong very easily as well - and you may end up having to replace most of the fire control parts. It is a pain in the rear when your hammer falls every time your the slide moves forward and chambers a round. It could also run-on, but you would have to have removed a serious amount of material. You could also inadvertantly prevent the hammer from cocking at all or screw with the thumb safeties ability to engage.
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Yes you can, but it is hard to be precise without the right jigs and machinery. Today most 1911 smiths are using mills and surface grinding to get the best trigger jobs. We try to eliminate hand work, just because it is to hard to be consistent .
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One thing to consider when having a trigger job done is getting high quality machined parts rather than using existing parts that may be case or MIM as the basis for the work.
There is more to a trigger job that how it feels when you first pick it up. If the hammer and sear surfaces do not engage evenly across the entire width of the engagement surface, you can have a trigger that feels really nice but won't hold up over time because the wear concentrates at the engaged portion. It's easy to end up with this sort of trigger job if you try to do it exclusively with hand tools and without the proper fixtures.
The key point here is that reputation of the person doing the job is important, since you won't necessarily be able to tell how good the job is just by your initial inspection and test shoot.
There is more to a trigger job that how it feels when you first pick it up. If the hammer and sear surfaces do not engage evenly across the entire width of the engagement surface, you can have a trigger that feels really nice but won't hold up over time because the wear concentrates at the engaged portion. It's easy to end up with this sort of trigger job if you try to do it exclusively with hand tools and without the proper fixtures.
The key point here is that reputation of the person doing the job is important, since you won't necessarily be able to tell how good the job is just by your initial inspection and test shoot.
