That's not necessarily true. I think its hit or miss. My box stock 1994 Silver Chrome MKIII has an excellent stock trigger. Its a bit heavy, but not prohibitively so. A lighter main spring would cure that and many swap out the springs.
That seems to be true of HP's. I know that a lot of them have really nice triggers - but the two I have shot (one rental, one belongs to a friend) have had really crappy triggers. I assumed that it was the mag safety, but one of them had that removed, so it wasn't the mag safety.
I believe all of you when you tell me how wonderful the triggers are on your HPs, so I don't what's going on.
When 100% of my (very small) sample was crappy, I couldn't buy one. I have limited cash, and I couldn't afford to buy a pistol, an then spend hundreds on a gunsmith to fix the trigger if I got one that was bad.
I was pretty disappointed - I love the looks/history of the HP, but I really couldn't afford to buy a lemon. The friend whose HP I borrowed was very disappointed in his. He's a SA autoloader kind of a guy, and also loved the looks and history of the HP. But he's got close to a $1000 into a pistol that's just not very much fun to shoot. He warned me to try his before I bought one.
I am not intending in any way to trash the HP design - from what you guys tell me, if you get a good one, it's incredible. I really, really, really, wanted to like the HP.
So I bought an AR-24, and have been very happy with it.
The trigger is not as nice as my Ruger Blackhawk
, but it's much, much better than either of the HPs I have had an opportunity to shoot.
Mike