DB diatribe on triggers

[Dagga Boy]

DB, I broke up your excellent first post a bit, in order to do it justice. Let me know if it needs changed.

I was just typing thoughts and didn't realize how much traction it would get. Thanks for cleaning it up. I will actually be doing an article for Lucky Gunner on the subject of triggers.

[LSP552]

Such an outstanding post Darryl! And spot on.

[hufnagel]

Pushing this one also, for the same reason as the other trigger thread.

[1986s4]

DB, agree with everything you said. I'm not a gunfighter, never carried in harms way. I have some military experience but for real firearms training I had to seek it myself, I wasn't the tip of the spear, more like the grip tape on the handle..
I made the decision some time ago that I wanted a margin of safety, call it mistake room if you will. When I drove [ever so briefly] for a well know ride share co. I carried. My plan was to leave, un ass from the car, only if hostile tried to stop me would I draw. My S&W M13 3" fit the bill.

[Erick Gelhaus]

Missed this the first go'round DB. Thank you for articulating it this way.

[scjbash]

DB, the views you've shared on triggers in various discussions started me down a path of questioning what I was doing and led to some changes over the last couple years. I still carry M&Ps but I'm no longer using aftermarket parts in an attempt to have a 1911 trigger in a Tupperware gun. I've grown to like the long and occasionally snaggy take up in the stock trigger, and I've seen no difference in how I shoot them. Actually that's not true as I've seen an improvement since I quit worrying about how "good" a trigger is and started focusing more on how I manipulate it.

[Bodhi]

Great OP and thread. Excellent discussion of the +’s of TDA. Refreshing to read given the market and the kids game “Operation.”

[PNWTO]

Fantastic thread. This and some previous conversations here regarding TDA and/or LEM guns has really got me thinking. I handled the first ever LEM gun I have ever seen during lunch, a P2000, and I liked it. Different, for sure, but it didn't seem so bad. Trigger pull after the take up was heavy, probably in excess of 6# but I know there are many combos for the HK line.

[Eastex]

I love my J frame and its trigger but there are times I wish there was something with a little more capacity and a TDA trigger. I know Sig has the 239 and that there are a bunch of tiny .380s out there with abusive triggers and bad ergonomics. What I wish is that someone would make a single stack TDA in either .380 or preferably 9mm that fit somewhere around the SigP238 and Glock 43 size and weight category.


"Hell bent on being intentionally anachronistic"

[OlongJohnson]

Third-gen S&W 39xx series are pretty close to that, only a little bigger and a little heavy. Still very slim in the slide, especially if you get the 3953 without warts.