Your firearm purchase that had the worst trigger possible

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I took my Suomi to a gunsmith who did such a great trigger job that I can empty the 72 rd drum in under 20 seconds, and it is heavy enough to stay on target.

Worst trigger I have is on a 1912 Mauser. You need to get a running start it travels so far. But it is just a wall hanger.
Ironically I have a very similar gun right down to the Manlicher stock and caliber made by CZ with a French set trigger which is the best of all my iron sights rifles.

My best overall is "the Austrian", so named because it is a Steyr (and has a Swarovski scope as well.)
edit; it has a double set trigger
 
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First gun I ever bought. My Ruger Mark 1. Pulled the trigger and it ripped of 5 shots before it smokestacked. The trigger was fully automatic. Had to send it back to Ruger. Second worse was the second Ruger I ever bought, about 30 years later. A new model .357. I was getting it drilled for a scope mount anyway so I had the smith clean the trigger up a little while he had it. I still is not a S&W like trigger.
 
Taurus Poly Protector in .357. The DA trigger topped out the limit of my trigger pull gauge which was 15 lbs. I kept pulling and easily put another 5 lbs into it to get the hammer to fall. Your trigger finger would get tired after the second shot. Shooting through a full cylinder of five was a lot like power lifting for just your index finger.

So bad in fact that the owner who was my boss, traded it in on a Taurus 85 UL which was a dream trigger by comparison.
 
Not my firearm, but a friend had a Colt All American 2000.

It had bar NONE the worst trigger of any properly functioning handgun I've ever seen. It made a Nagant look like a Hammerli 208s.

You'd squeeze and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze, with the weight going up and up and up and up.

I literally thought the trigger was going to snap in two before it broke.

Honorable mention: A friend's transit cop buddy had a Beretta 96D. The trigger was as long and grating as a Michael Moore "documentary". It put me off of conventional DAOs forever.

Second honorable mention: When I bought my Glock 22 when they first came out, I didn't realize it had the EXECRABLE "New York trigger". Of course this was partially due to it coming in a mismatched Glock 17 box (which I didn't notice at the time; all the accessories were correct) I couldn't ditch that piece of garbage fast enough, taking it to a local gunsmith to have it removed before I knew how easy Glock triggers were to work on. I've since then installed a Ghost 3.5lb. connector and done the "$0.25 trigger job" on it. It's GREAT now.
 
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No trigger I've tried has matched an out of the box Norinco SKS. I have two purchased brand new in the 90s. Both triggers were ridiculously long, creepy and gritty. Later I took the sear and stoned it until it took about half the amount of travel to release the hammer and smoothed it in the process. They are not match grade but drastically better as a result.
 
No trigger I've tried has matched an out of the box Norinco SKS. I have two purchased brand new in the 90s. Both triggers were ridiculously long, creepy and gritty. Later I took the sear and stoned it until it took about half the amount of travel to release the hammer and smoothed it in the process. They are not match grade but drastically better as a result.
I must have gotten lucky. Mine had a decent (for a box stock combloc military rifle) trigger. It was good enough to win a carbine match at the old NASA Lewis rifle range.
 
Aside from used guns that simply didn't work at all - literally THE WORST trigger possible - I'd have to say the SD9VE.

It made those craptackular Glock triggers feel like a 1911.

So, in getting it ready for the next guy - I found a great utoob vid about tweaking the existing trigger rather than throw new parts at it.

20 minutes later and what was to date the single most perfect ergonomic pistol for me also had a better than average trigger that kept getting better.

Todd.
 
Honorable mention goes to my (now gone) S&W SW99 in .45 ACP. That was a pretty bad trigger. Wish I had kept it but traded it toward a Sig P220, which is a great pistol.
 
Aside from used guns that simply didn't work at all - literally THE WORST trigger possible - I'd have to say the SD9VE.

It made those craptackular Glock triggers feel like a 1911.

So, in getting it ready for the next guy - I found a great utoob vid about tweaking the existing trigger rather than throw new parts at it.

20 minutes later and what was to date the single most perfect ergonomic pistol for me also had a better than average trigger that kept getting better.

Todd.
The same thing is easy with Glocks and S&W M&Ps. I did the "$0.25 trigger job" on and installed 3.5lb. Ghost connectors in my Glock 19 and Glock 22. They have excellent triggers now.
 
Most disappointing goes to an M&P 9. Gritty with a long reset. Didn't feel like investing more money into trigger improvement and sold it.

H&R 922 was beyond use in DA. SA was okay, but nothing to get excited about.
 
PA-63. Double action pull was over 60lb. Not especially smooth either. That's not an exaggeration. Kel Tec P11 is up there too, although 1/10 the pull. Its not only that its very long, and very heavy, but that theres a distince stop before it fires, making people think its broken.
 
Ruger SP101. I didn't really know any better at the time but it's real long and heavy compared to every single other gun I own.

My GP100 is half the weight, or at least that's how it feels.
 
Mossberg shotgun.

Any Glock I've ever held would be a close 2nd.
 
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PA-63. Double action pull was over 60lb. Not especially smooth either. That's not an exaggeration. Kel Tec P11 is up there too, although 1/10 the pull. Its not only that its very long, and very heavy, but that theres a distince stop before it fires, making people think its broken.

What trigger pull gauge goes to 60 pounds?

My Mosin isnt a great trigger but I don't expect it to be.

I have a hi point 40sw......not really anything great about it including the trigger pull
 
I had a 640 pro series that you could hardly pull the trigger on sometimes. I sent it in three times before they got it fixed and then traded it off. For me personally the RM380 trigger is bad. It’s a smooth pull but I can’t shoot it worth a darn so I traded it as well.
 
Surprised no none got to this one yet ---

You haven't lived till you try to shoot a WWII P.38 in double action. I just figure that the first round is a throw away necessary to get the pistol cycled.
And just for contrast , the Beretta 85 , a firearm of rather similar design , is a shining example of how reasonable a sa/da pistol trigger can be in double action.
 
HK VP70
Long, Crunchy and 20+ lb
And unlike some of the others mentioned you didn't have the option of going SA to lighten it up.
 
Surprised no none got to this one yet ---

You haven't lived till you try to shoot a WWII P.38 in double action. I just figure that the first round is a throw away necessary to get the pistol cycled.
And just for contrast , the Beretta 85 , a firearm of rather similar design , is a shining example of how reasonable a sa/da pistol trigger can be in double action.
Worst was a Cobra Derringer, but the P38 was a close second.
 
Rossi 22/20 gauge.

It got to be a family joke. I put the shotgun barrel on it so the grandkids could have something to shoot. Not only was the trigger nasty, the short, light shotgun kicked so hard that nobody, even the adults, would shoot it twice.

It went away before long.
 
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