Secondary "catch" on hammer of GP100 noticed-what is it?

[toolmaker]

While fitting an overtravel stop inside the triggerguard of my GP100 I found that if I adjusted it to where the trigger just let off the hammer from single action position, there is a slight internal rub or catch of the hammer in its travel about 1/3 of the way down in its arc of travel. Anyone found this before? I'd prefer to leave the stop at its setting with minimal overtravel, but I don't want wear on a sear surface against something. Suggestions?

 

[Lone Star]

My suggestion is to remember that S&W quit fitting trigger stops to their models likely to see police use, as the stop can loosen and gum up the gun, very possibly when it's a matter of life and death.

Lone Star

 

[Tamara]

Lone Star,

My suggestion is to remember that S&W quit fitting trigger stops to their models likely to see police use, as the stop can loosen and gum up the gun, very possibly when it's a matter of life and death.

Adjustable stops, that is.

Performance Center guns have "trigger stops" that are merely sections of roll pin permanently affixed to the aft side of the trigger: they ain't goin' nowhere.

 

[toolmaker]

Thanks. I was beginning to think nobody would answer. I basically did the same thing by industrial epoxying a small brass button to the inside rear of the guard then filed and polished to dimension to stop overtravel just after letoff. Removed just a little more and the secondary "rubbing" I described went away. This is a scoped range gun only. Wouldn't do it on my defensive guns. Just my opinion about accessorizing my guns only.

 

[Old Fuff]

Toolmaker:

What you have there is one of those "unintended consequences" that sometimes pop up. You adjusted your stop so the trigger would move only far enough to release the hammer, but not far enough so that the double-action Hammer Dog wouldn't "tick" it as the hammer fell. Then you took off enough additional metal so the Dog cleared.

On a range/target gun you can remove the Hammer Dog and its Spring. This will make the revolver S.A. only, but you can adjust the trigger pull to the point of zero backlash.