Originally Posted by
willie
Very nice. You mentioned a trigger or action job. A previous owner may have unscrewed the strain screw that maintains pressure on the main spring. If so, I suggest that you turn it in all the way. An acceptable way to reduce both sa and da trigger pull is cutting a couple coils off the rebound spring(or replacing it with a lighter one)that returns the trigger to the reset position. This method does not affect mainspring force. As stated above, some guys use Federal primers to allow reliable ignition with a lighter main spring. I never understood the concept of limiting a weapon's reliability in this way. My obstinate mindset shouts that a shooter can adapt to a non target main spring and shoot as well in double action mode. Once, when talking with a guy who is actually an expert revolver shot with a 4 inch 29 using magnum loads, he told me that he was able to shoot so fast in double action that he could outrun the Smith's action. I replied that if he replaced his cut rebound spring with a factory original, he would no longer out run his revolver. His set-up had all springs altered.
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