Thoughts on Snubby Trigger weight.

[Jbarila]

I have a S&W 642 air weight. I love the little guy but it has a finger cramping pull weight. What are your thoughts on a safe to carry trigger pull weight? I saw Apex tactical offers a kit to reduce it to 9 lbs, that sounds a little heavy. What is the general consensus?

 

[wolf223]

i found it a beast as well in my 442. traded it off

 

[drgrant]

Safe? On a DAO revolver? The optimal weight on a DA revolver is "the lightest you can get it that the gun will still fire reliably". 9 pounds on a 642 is in the realm of being really good, since the "start pull" on most of those is easily in the 13+ pound range from the factory!

-Mike

 

[mark056]

What Mike said...

 

[Len-2A Training]

Safe? On a DAO revolver? The optimal weight on a DA revolver is "the lightest you can get it that the gun will still fire reliably". 9 pounds on a 642 is in the realm of being really good, since the "start pull" on most of those is easily in the 13+ pound range from the factory!

-Mike

What he said!

I had Greg Derr do a trigger job on my 642. It measures ~9# now and is very smooth. It feels lighter due to smoothness and thus is much more shootable.

Contact Greg and he'll explain it and make recommendations to you.

 

[eisenhow]

Try the APEX kit. It's only $25 and not that hard to put. I'm happy with mine.

 

[Slowdive]

I just dry fired my m&p 340 and 342PD a ton. Smooths out very nicely. I don't care too much about heavy, I care much more about smooth action for the pull and the return.

ETA - There is a school of thought that there are diminishing accuracy returns with a light DA trigger. I read this from a gunsmith on a Ruger forum who explains better than I...

Light springs are a trade-off. A lighter trigger pull helps a shooter stay on target until the trigger is pulled. A light hammer spring will also slow the hammer movement and increase "lock time". Lock time is the time it takes for the hammer to reach the firing pin once the trigger is pulled. Because this happens after the trigger is pulled, the shooter must continue to hold the gun on target for a fraction of a second longer. ​

Link to Thread

 

[seanc]

I have 3 snubs.. An m&p340, 442 and an old stainless hump back. The 340 and 442 started out about 15lbs, horrible, unshootable. the hump back started out about 10-ish.

I put a set of wolff spring in the humpback first, it really smoothed out the trigger and brought down to @ 8lbs. It may not seem like a huge diffference 10 to 8, but it really smoothed it out.

On the others I did the same kit, it has brought them down to @ 9-10lbs. While the reduction of about a pound does not seem like it makes any difference, it is quite a bit smoother. That combined with shooting it now that they are not awful really improves the triggers.

 

[Mass-diver]

My Dad's 340 is about 9lbs (trigger job by Dave S.) - it's much, much better than my factory trigger (on a 340).