I was talking firearms with one of my workmates and he was telling me that on his IPSC 1911 he has less than a pound set up on his trigger. I have never had any triggers modified before but that seems very light to me. Is this common with compettition pistols?
Trigger Pull Weight
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Anyone remember "Have Gun, Will Travel"? Paladin's gun was custom made to his specifications and featured "perfect balance", "rifling, which is seldom found in a handgun", and a one ounce trigger pull.
The scriptwriter did not know a lot about guns.
The scriptwriter did not know a lot about guns.
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I ran the chrono at our IPSC provincials one year, and as such, got to shoot all the guns 
. Some of the triggers are scary light for competition guns.
As for the lightest trigger pull I've run across.... I own a Soviet MU2-3 Olympic free pistol. The trigger pull is probably measured in grams, with virtually no travel. To shoot properly, I imagine you'd have to sand your finger tip to increase sensitivity just to feel the trigger.
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. Some of the triggers are scary light for competition guns. As for the lightest trigger pull I've run across.... I own a Soviet MU2-3 Olympic free pistol. The trigger pull is probably measured in grams, with virtually no travel. To shoot properly, I imagine you'd have to sand your finger tip to increase sensitivity just to feel the trigger.
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Less than a pound raises safety concern issues. Less than three pounds may be reasonable, but the necessary element, not matter what the weight-of-pull is, is the break. Even if the pull is heavy, but the break is clean, you can still achieve good marksmanship. Mushy breaks, no matter what the weight-of-pull, are very hard to deal with. Very light trigger pulls in stress situations are disasters waiting to happen.
I had the chance to shoot an Olympic free pistol once - with an electronic trigger. It was hopeless for me, since at the time I was shooting nothing but double action revolvers. It's just as hard to shoot a gun with too light a trigger, as it is to shoot one that's too heavy.
It's a .357SIG cartridge; a round that I have never fired and cannot afford to do so regularly, yet.
I think I'd be nervous to fast draw a gun with that light a trigger! I try not to ever draw with my finger on the trigger but it could happen by mistake one day,even an unnoticed loose shirt could pull it by mistake and put a hole in your foot
if we're taking guesses... .357 SIG?
My Open pistol trigger currently breaks at 1.25 lbs (20 oz). I've had it as low as 14 oz but there's not enough return pressure at that weight to get any real feedback off it so it's too hard to prep. I've seen plenty of Open guns in that range but I suspect that mostly they are guys who tend to slap, rather than tickle, the trigger.
I do keep my take-up and over-travel quite long though. I don't like a really short reset for reasons of safety, reliability and deflection on the pull. Longer is better and it doesn't take any more time.
I do keep my take-up and over-travel quite long though. I don't like a really short reset for reasons of safety, reliability and deflection on the pull. Longer is better and it doesn't take any more time.
