sargents1
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I posted this up at Rugerforum. This procedure is probably valid for the P90 / 91 and other P-Series guns.
I have had an old school P85MKII for a few years now and I have been putting up with it's heavy-Effing trigger for the whole time. It has always been pretty smooth (probably because this particular gun has been ridden hard and put up wet for years...it feels almost worn out), but its spongy and relatively heavy. This makes it hard to shoot well, the harder you try the worse it seems to be because you are fighting the trigger. If you give up and just blaze away like a gangster, its actually pretty accurate but it sucks when shooting from a rest.
Well, tonight I got ambitious and did something about it. A while back I had ordered a replacement spring pack from Wolff which showed up today. The springs were 8.69$ (plus shipping) from MidwayUSA. As usual, Midway was fast and correct. No BS and good pricing.
Installation was straightforward.
Field-strip the gun.
Take the grips off and drift the little retainer pin out. This is the pin that retains the lanyard-ring/spring plug thingy.
Before you drift the pin out - Take Note of where the hammer strut lives. You want to be able to put that back where it came from. Its the little do-hickey that the hammer spring rides on in the backstrap of the gun.
The pin is pretty easy to pop out. Make sure you take care not to let the lanyard ring/spring retainer plug go flying when you pull the punch out.
(I used a Glock tool for a punch)
Once that is done, the spring, and hammer strut come right out.
Here you can see my original spring (top) and replacement spring (bottom). For some reason the replacement spring was longer than the original. I am not sure, but I think the spring that was in the gun might have been shortened. The replacement spring was a bear to put in until I put my multi-tool to good use and clipped a couple of coils off it so that it's length matched the spring I pulled out of the gun.
Once that was done, re-assembly was a breeze. The trigger pull is now lighter than it was in both DA and SA modes. Everything seems to function properly, but the final test will have to wait until later when I can do some shooting.
Until then,
It's Miller Time.
Cheers,
I have had an old school P85MKII for a few years now and I have been putting up with it's heavy-Effing trigger for the whole time. It has always been pretty smooth (probably because this particular gun has been ridden hard and put up wet for years...it feels almost worn out), but its spongy and relatively heavy. This makes it hard to shoot well, the harder you try the worse it seems to be because you are fighting the trigger. If you give up and just blaze away like a gangster, its actually pretty accurate but it sucks when shooting from a rest.
Well, tonight I got ambitious and did something about it. A while back I had ordered a replacement spring pack from Wolff which showed up today. The springs were 8.69$ (plus shipping) from MidwayUSA. As usual, Midway was fast and correct. No BS and good pricing.
Installation was straightforward.
Field-strip the gun.
Take the grips off and drift the little retainer pin out. This is the pin that retains the lanyard-ring/spring plug thingy.
Before you drift the pin out - Take Note of where the hammer strut lives. You want to be able to put that back where it came from. Its the little do-hickey that the hammer spring rides on in the backstrap of the gun.
The pin is pretty easy to pop out. Make sure you take care not to let the lanyard ring/spring retainer plug go flying when you pull the punch out.
(I used a Glock tool for a punch)
Once that is done, the spring, and hammer strut come right out.
Here you can see my original spring (top) and replacement spring (bottom). For some reason the replacement spring was longer than the original. I am not sure, but I think the spring that was in the gun might have been shortened. The replacement spring was a bear to put in until I put my multi-tool to good use and clipped a couple of coils off it so that it's length matched the spring I pulled out of the gun.
Once that was done, re-assembly was a breeze. The trigger pull is now lighter than it was in both DA and SA modes. Everything seems to function properly, but the final test will have to wait until later when I can do some shooting.
Until then,
It's Miller Time.
Cheers,