Hey @AL34 thanks for tagging me to your thread. I finally got time to watch the video’s. Here’s my take away.
I like what the guy in the 1st video is saying. “I” pull the trigger not the gun.
The 2nd video is all about “branding” I get where he is coming from and I practice that on my vehicles, no bumper stickers. Similar on my guns, I don’t need a slogan or a picture or even “We the people”
The last guy makes good point however I want to know what is an acceptable single action trigger pull? 10lbs? 3lbs? 7 lbs? Unless there is a deputy in the court room with a revolver my 1911 is going to come in way light compared to a Glock, SA, S&W or any other DAO, stryker fired or double action trigger available today.
My trigger pull is essentially stock but it breaks at exactly the same pull and exactly the same movement shot after shot and it “feels” better than stock. I am also on my 4th set of internals for that gun as I flat wore out 3 sets of hammers, sears, disconnectors etc. and more springs than I can count. My trigger breaks at 4.2lbs period. It doesn’t move at 4.1lbs or at 3.1lbs. That freaks people out, the trigger doesn’t move till the gun goes off. The reset is almost instantaneous and within the mechanical limits of the gun re-chambering a round. Once I was going so fast that I locked the gun up because I beat the trigger. I’ve only been able to do it once and it was the day I got my Tier1 certification.
30 years ago you could not buy a gun that looks like mine, it was a “custom shop gun”. Now I can get an RIA that looks almost exactly like mine for $600 (if I can find one).
Does it have the modifications I did for the reasons I did them? No.
The safety isn’t harder to get off than it is to get on like mine.
The beaver tail on a factory gun does not seat the gun deeper into your grip like mine does.
My EDC will feed empty cases from the magazine just by pulling the slide back 8 times. No factory gun that I have ever seen can do that.
Is the frame around the trigger faded back so that my trigger finger does not rub the frame when shooting like mine does? No.
I have Millet MK2 sights on my EDC. The company is out of business and you can’t find them anymore but I like that they give me an additional 5/8" of sight radius since they hang over the back of the slide.
If you take my pistol apart you will see hammer marks where I peened the frame rails down and while the slide doesn’t show it I squoze the slide to tighten it back up TWICE!! Then laboriously lapped the rails and slide with fitting bars.
There is NOTHING on my EDC that is “stock” but then again there are doggone few EDC’s running around with 1/2 a million rounds through them. No that’s not a boast or a lie or an exaggeration. For more than a couple of years I shot anywhere from 200 to more than 1K of pistol rounds every day, thank you U.S. Taxpayers!
I’ll take my chances in court. I may retire old girl as she is getting bit heavy but what I go to will be fitted to me and run the way I demand my sticks to run. FWIW I haven’t found a production stick that meets those requirements.
Cheers,
Craig6