Action Pistol Rules Committee

[Trader]

Did the NRA say what method they would use to measure trigger pull weight at the Cup?

Probably the standard NRA trigger weights which would have to hold 2 lbs.

[Jay Della Bella]

The NRA needs someone qualified to check trigger pulls at check in and at every stage. It takes about 2 minutes to change a spring to make it lighter. I have a sear spring I use for the mover that makes my trigger heavier; a pound and a quarter. They also need to come up with some guidelines for checking grip safeties. At the Cardinal Cup this year they had a referee from NRA checking grip safeties. My trigger broke at 10 oz. How much pressure are they going to put on the trigger without the grip safety depressed? He put about 9 pounds on mine till the trigger bow bent. He was also dropping slides from slide lock and just letting them slam shut. Other than that, the match was great.

Jay

[gm iprod]

I won't like some numpty doing a slide lock drop on my gun. That's a good way to wreck a perfectly good hammer and sear setup. I may just grind the bastard off, that might fix it.

They should checkthe trigger weight at the same time as checking the grip safety. Check the grip safety with the same amount of weight that it takes to release the sear. No more, no less. That way they are testing the grip safety, not the grip of the tester.

I mean, if he has been put on short rations by the lady of the house, then he may be able to crush a coconut between his fingers.

[Alan550]

The testing process is the problem.....trigger pull is checked with the muzzle up to lift the weights with the grip safety held in manually. The grip safety has to be checked with the muzzle down, so that if there isn't enough spring pressure to hold it up it won't pass. So they should hang a scale from above and apply that to the trigger until it reads 2 lbs. + an ounce, but I have doubts that it will be done in that fashion. Most of the referees have no experience with a trigger-pull like Jay has, or even some of us lower level shooters with a pound to a pound and a half pull weight. As has been expressed here earlier, this is the answer to a non-existant problem, i.e. negligent discharges that haven't happened, for which penalties are already on the books.

The "slide-drop" thing is understood by most all 1911 shooters as a no-no, but there again, it comes down to the knowledge level of the official involved. I'd prefer to demonstrate the weight of my own trigger, using their weights, and the grip safety in the fashion described above, but that won't happen. They have to get their ham-fisted hands on our high-dollar guns themselves, and if we don't like the way they abuse our babies........tough!

Alan~^~