Heaviest Trigger Pull You've Ever Encountered?

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Nagant and the VP-70 which have already been mentioned.

I tried a Colt 2000 once. I didn't think it was "bad" as much as I thought it was just weird. The gun was also really ugly.
 
For me, it is my PPK/S 22. So heavy in DA as to be nonfunctional. Hammer-cock the action and the gun is sweet to shoot. My gunsmith buddy assured me it was the gun's design and nothing can be done to make it significantly better. The gun sits in my safe....

My LCR 22 trigger is heavier than I would prefer, but smooth, and it gets lots of range time.
 
AMT .45 Backup without a doubt was the worst trigger I have encountered. My wife's boss wanted a new set of golf clubs and decided to sell his firearms to fund the purchase and so he sent three pistols home with her for me to look at. One was a Ruger P89, an AMT .45 Backup and a Colt King Cobra. I checked them for being loaded and then started examining them. The Ruger, well it was a typical Ruger P89, he wanted $450 for it. Then the Colt King Cobra which I was drooling over, he wanted $300. Lastly I picked up the AMT, he wanted $400 for it and tried to dry fire it. With great effort I finally got it to dry fire. I called for my wife and handed it to her and said try and dry fire it. She checked the chamber and then tried and tried and tried and finally said I can't is the safety on or something? Nope I replied and she tried again and with both hands and two fingers straining she got it to snap, handed it back to me and said I would be better off hitting a bad guy with my purse than trying to use this thing!

I told her to ask about the Colt to make sure he had his prices right and she hadn't confused them and he was sure $300 for the Colt, $450 for the Ruger and $400 for the AMT. I snapped the Colt up like a duck on a june bug!

Had another friend ask me to clean and test fire a P64 for him, that trigger was a beast but not near as bad as the AMT. I put a set of Wolfe springs in the P64 and tamed the trigger somewhat for him. But that gun even with the new springs just hurt to shot.
 
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PA-63 in a pistol. I literally cannot pull it in DA with my left hand. I have a Savage rifle in 17HMR that is impossible to shoot accurately. There is no squeezing that trigger.
 
That I have owned: that would have to be a Browning Hi-Power T series. Heavier than any trigger pull scale I could find. If only that gun's beauty matched it's mechanical capabilities.
 
I have a 1894 army colt DA/SA in .38 long colt. DA trigger pull must be 15 to 20#. SA is a dream. On bad arthritis days I need index fingers of both hands to pull the trigger, so mostly I shoot it Sa.
 
P64. I will get around to measuring it someday but it is undoubtably over 20#. I had a normal P64 & sold it along with my Russian Makarov to simplify my cartridge inventory, but I kept a P64 trainer (no firing pin hole in bolt face, observation port in both chamber & slide) for trigger control practice. Compared to it, every other handgun I have or have fired is light.

If Nagant revolvers were still $100, is get one of those for dry fire trigger control practice too.
 
I have a 38 special derringer (Cobra Arms I think?) that is ridiculous. I bought it on a whim. You need a pulley system to pull the darn trigger.

Both of my Nagant pistols are terrible as well. But it is fun to put a silencer on a revolver!
 
1895 Nagant

My 1895 Nagant is the winner? for me too. I never measured it but it was horrible. I made out fine by trading it in at Bud's on an M&P 40 . I got more than I paid for it on the best M & P that I own. How did anyone fire that in double action and hit anything? Anyhow a happy ending to a bad situation.
 
My $30 ring of fire revolver trigger weight is around 16-17 pounds. I use it for dry fire practice as it forces me to pay attention to my technique. I also have to say a nazi marked walther P 38 i shot sas on the list. The owner and i thought something was broken with how heavy and long that trigger pull was. We did not have a scale but it was close to 20 pounds or better. My 1911 felt scary afterwards, and i noticed a bad flinch.
 
In first place is the Baby Browning.
Tied in second place are the Vektor CP-1 and the Beretta PX4 Storm Compact.

I was only tolerant of the CP-1 trigger because I started out shooting a lot of crossbows, way before I bought the CP-1. Once you've tried a compound crossbow, you will be very forgiving of most firearm triggers!
 
Probably a tie between a friend's Ruger P89 (I think) and another buddy's Keltec P11. Both felt like you were trying to crush a walnut behind the trigger. And failing.
 
A DA/SA H&R somethingoranother. Don't exactly recall what it was.

SA was okay, but the DA pull made my J-Frame seem like butter in comparison.
 
I recently bought an M&P caliber .45 Auto. The trigger was
so bad I sold the gun a few weeks after buying it and used
some of the money to buy a Ruger GP-100. That shoots good.

Zeke
 
I agree with several, starting with posting # 13.
Russian Nagant 1895 is the WORST (shooting single action is preferred).
Polish P-64 is second, but Wolff Springs helped double action trigger pull.
 
Early versions of S&W Sigmas! I don't know what the average pull was on those, but they were heavy!
I'll second some High Powers. A range buddy has one, and it was one of the worst trigger pull's I've ever encountered. Even after the mag drop safety was removed, it was still HEAVY. He finally got a trigger job done on it, and it's a pleasure to shoot now.
I've never shot a Nagant or some of the others mentioned above, but those 2 took the cake for me.
 
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