carnaby
Member
I know the trigger creep on a 1911 has been done a lot, but I've run into something sorta new. I re-triggered my TRP a while back with Ed Brown parts and a lot of help from the fine folks in the gunsmithing forum here at THR. The trigger went from great to great and was a good learning experience.
The problem I'm having now is that when I get home from shooting at the range, the trigger has a TON of creep, where it had virtually none when the gun was clean. I can hold the pistol, take up all the slack, then pull a smidge more and there's a VISIBLE movement of the trigger, but the hammer doesn't fall. Then a little more pull on the trigger and it breaks cleanly from there.
Is there anything I can do to eliminate this after shooting creep? I'm assuming it is from buildup of powder residue on the sear/hammer/trigger/disconnector setup, but I don't know where the most likely culprit is, nor how to prevent this as much as possible.
Any ideas?
The problem I'm having now is that when I get home from shooting at the range, the trigger has a TON of creep, where it had virtually none when the gun was clean. I can hold the pistol, take up all the slack, then pull a smidge more and there's a VISIBLE movement of the trigger, but the hammer doesn't fall. Then a little more pull on the trigger and it breaks cleanly from there.
Is there anything I can do to eliminate this after shooting creep? I'm assuming it is from buildup of powder residue on the sear/hammer/trigger/disconnector setup, but I don't know where the most likely culprit is, nor how to prevent this as much as possible.
Any ideas?