Colt Gold Cup

[Sverre A.]

How light can the pull of trigger be adjusted on a Gold Cup - without gunsmithing?

[Buford]

Adjusted?

[Sverre A.]

Maybe I have misunderstood something.  What kind of adjustment is possible concerning the trigger?  If you can`t adjust the trigger pull - how heavy is it?  1400 gram or more?

[Buford]

The only adjustment on the trigger is the overtravel screw - and that does not effect the pull.  The actual pull weight will vari from gun to gun.

[Questor]

SverreA:

This should give you some idea http://www.robleatham.com/Rob%20Leatham%20gun%20vault.htm

Have you got the 45 bug? You've been asking a lot of 45 questions lately.

[Mikey]

Sverre:  After you have adjusted the overtravel screw on the trigger to take up the back travel, then you need to 'torsion' (bend it back a bit) the middle finger of the 3 prong mainspring to get the trigger letoff you want.  The middle finger on that spring is the one which governs the pressure on the sear and that directly affects the pressure on the trigger.  HTH.  Mikey.

[Questor]

I think this is a good time to mention that a light trigger pull on a 1911 is not necessarily a good thing. The speed shooters use light trigger pulls, but most other applications benefit from a crisp 3.5 pound (1.5kg) trigger pull.  Safety is a consideration. Also, some games require a minimum trigger pull. For example, 3.5 pounds for bullseye.

[Sverre A.]

No - I have not bought any yet.  I want to trade a secondhanded one - and have a lot of offers.  But I`m not sure that I want "plastic-guns" - but I can see that maybe the "plastic is the future".

[rbwillnj]

"Adjusting" the trigger pull on a 1911 is achieved by polishing a number of internal components including the hammer and sear.  This is sometimes accompanied by slight adjustments to the tension of the sear spring.  A satisfactory trigger job is rarely accomplished by adjusting spring tension alone.  I recently did a friends Kimber Team Match II and took the trigger pull from 4 1/4 to 3 1/2 without ever touching the sear spring.  He thought I had taken it down to 2 lbs because of the clean break, but it was 3 1/2 lbs.

As Questor says, a clean crisp trigger with no creep (I know that's redundant) is far more important than the trigger pull weight.

[palgeno]

Amen to that!!!! If the sear and hammer engagement is perfect, the trigger pull will feel like a glass rod breaking. And that feel will be perceived as lighter than it really is. Be aware that getting the parts honed correctly is not an amateur job---just a little mistake and you have an unsafe gun. Bending the third finger of the spring is easy and reversable. An often overlooked thing condition is the trigger bow dragging on the magazine---fairly common with Colt magazines---the drag will ruin the feel of the trigger also.  I like Wilson mags best for this reason and they feed better, too!:grin: Gene