PT111 trigger

[TonyB]

I have a Taurus pt111(DOA)not the pro...and I like it except for the realllly looong trigger pull....and reset,is there any way to change it(shorten it)?and is there gunsmiths who can do it for not a whole bunch of money?
This gun has been great(although I had my 1st stovepipe the other night)and I picked it up for $250....it doesn't have any of the "problems" associated w/ the non-pro pt111's....any help would be appreciated.

 

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Short answer- no.

Good suggestion- dry fire it about 1000 times. It'll get better. Really.

You can also search under posts in this category under my screen name and 'PT111', as I'm sure I posted the procedure I used to slick up the trigger snatch from 'dragging a piano down a gravel road with your fingertips' to 'passable'.

Trust me, I actually like PT111's. Got two of them.

Regards,
Rabbit.

 

[TonyB]

yeah,i love this gun..the trigger isn't really gritty or heavy,just long....I don't know why it throws me off,I shoot revolvers all the time.I think it's mostly the reset,I guess I'm used to my Glock.I'll check out your posts,thanks

 

[Whirlwind06]

It can't be any worse then my Kel-Tec P11.
I dry-fired the P11 a lot and F&B the action.
Still long and heavy but smooth now.

 

[jeepmor]

You can field strip it and see the parts your discussing. I dropped one drop of oil (and soaked most of it back up) in the striker assembly of the slide right where the frame assembly pulls on the striker. I also touched up the striker and frame contact points ever so slightly with something like 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper. It helped qutie a bit and is a buttery smooth trigger now. I did the same thing to my PT145.

Or, you could squeeze the trigger 1000 times, probably about the same result. Either way, its actually a good indicator that your gun is very "new" no matter how old it actually is. If you do anything to shorten or soften the the trigger, you'll be reducing your striker spring poundage, which means light primer strikes will be the tradeoff.

Give it time and feed it another 500 rounds and you should see quite a difference. My wife's PT111 has very, very smooth now after only about 1k rounds through the gun.

 

[bannockburn]

I didn't like the DAO trigger of the PT111, so I waited till they came out with the SA/DA trigger system that's on my MilPro. I have tried other DAO pistols, like the Kahr CW40, and I just couldn't get the hang of that very long trigger pull. I think the reason for that is it never really stacks like a DA revolver, it just seems to go on and on without giving you a feeling of when it's going to break. I suppose that your best bet is to practice with it as others have suggested, and see if it smooths out for you.