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pre travel with APEX kit


DrLove

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RAM won't fit guns built after April 2012.

If you want to reduce pre-travel (take up), you either need a Forward Set trigger, or you need to weld some metal on the front of the trigger bar to prevent the trigger from going all the way forwards. Both mods are illegal for USPSA Production.

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Well, I noticed less travel with the carry kit. I then put the reset assist mechanism in for a more noticeable click. The kit SHOULD help with pre-travel, but then again mine M&P is a few years old. From the Apex website:

Drop-in replacements for factory components enhance reliability and optimize the performance of your M&P for different applications. Installing the Competition Kit yields a smooth, consistent, trigger pull of slightly less than 3 lbs., with shorter over-travel and faster reset than a factory-stock M&P. Retain the factory sear spring to get a slightly heavier 3½ lb. pull. Designed for IDPA, USPSA, Steel Challenge, 3-gun, and similar types of action shooting competition. Not for duty, carry, or self-defense applications. Duty/Carry Kit delivers a smooth, consistent 5½ lb. trigger pull with less over-travel and shorter reset. Improves performance of your pistol while maintaining its safety features for daily carry. Retain the factory sear spring to get a slightly lighter 5 lb. pull. Both kits engineered for a drop-in fit, though gunsmith installation is recommended.

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to reduce mine, i just bent the finger on the trigger bar up, to meet the sear earlier.

This can have only a limited effect on pre-travel because the trigger bar still has to move back far enough to disable the striker-block. Bending the finger also decreases pre-travel at the expense of increasing overtravel.

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  • 2 weeks later...

This is what I have in mine. FSS with the stock trigger and the sear block tig welded to reduce the overtravel. My camera is a little old and does not like close ups.

Pic 1 full extension

Pic 2 pre travel take up

Pic 3 trigger against trigger stop after break

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5176.JPG

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5177.JPG

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5178.JPG

This setup shortens pre travel and after travel and gives a longer trigger reach an dis the closest thing I have tried in a plastic pistol to the 1911 trigger.

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  • 7 months later...

This is what I have in mine. FSS with the stock trigger and the sear block tig welded to reduce the overtravel. My camera is a little old and does not like close ups.

Pic 1 full extension

Pic 2 pre travel take up

Pic 3 trigger against trigger stop after break

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5176.JPG

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5177.JPG

http://www.kycarry.citymax.com/i/MP40/tn_HPIM5178.JPG

This setup shortens pre travel and after travel and gives a longer trigger reach an dis the closest thing I have tried in a plastic pistol to the 1911 trigger.

I know this is old thread but can you or somebody show pics of what you welded?
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