They respond very well to a gunsmith who knows what they are doing. The DA can be super smooth and consistent. The SA will never quite be what a Smith can be, but can be very good, and certainly very shootable. Even bone stock they are OK. Some of it depends on what kind of trigger you like. Just being OCD about triggers doesn't help us there. I have Redhawks and like them a lot. I also have Smiths. If you want a crisp super light range/target SA trigger, the Smiths can not be beat. If you want a very nice safe trigger for field work, the Redhawk can do that for you. I bet a good gunsmith could make it close to what a Smith can be, but with a Smith it can be done by the user with a spring change most times. The Redhawk will take some judicious smoothing/polishing here and there. My Redhawks cylinders open and close as smoothly as anything I have, and much, much smoother than most, but it took polishing. I am talking butter smooth.