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Wow Brownells ships fast! I ordered a weighted dummy mag and a new Greider medium trigger for my Commander Friday afternoon and they arrived with today's mail. Great service. So naturally I ignored the Chemistry homework I needed to get done and installed the new trigger. :duh: It went fairly smoothly, all except for the $*(@&*# lawyer levers. I'm starting to really dislike those things. Once I got the trigger shoe shaped to fit, I put it all back together with the lower lever installed backwards. :nono: Couldn't figure out why the mags wouldn't go in until I realized that part wasn't supposed to be sticking into the magwell. So it all came back apart and I got the stupid levers in the correct posistion. Great! Now I just need to put the slide back on. CLINK! What the... Oh great, now the upper lever is sticking up too far and blocking the slide! :aargh4: The new trigger bow is slightly longer than the old one, which is great because it eliminates the annoying take-up that the old trigger had. It's bad because it pushed the lower lever back farther, consequently raising the upper lever above the top of the frame. So I took it all apart again and started filing on the lower lever. 30 minutes and five trial-fit reassemblies later (all accomplished with surprisingly little cursing) the uppper lever stayed below the frame's top with the trigger forward. I slapped it all back together, dropped in a snap cap and took a few practice pulls. MUUUCH better. This is pretty much a perfect combat trigger now. It has just a tiny tiny bit of take-up, then the sear engages and breaks cleanly at about 5.5 lbs. A little bit heaver than I would prefer but still very usable. I even had enough time to finish the Chemistry homework before class! How's that for a productive afternoon?
Obviously this pistol could no longer fill in as the nightstand gun until it went to the range. So after class I loaded up the range bag and headed out. It put another 100 trouble-free rounds of FMJ downrange, and my groups tightened up noticeably. I'm still shooting a tad to the left, but it's improving. The new 22/45 went along for the ride as well. The first time out it had a lot of trouble feeding CCI pistol match ammo, which seemed odd. I detail stripped it after it's first range sesson and cleaned off all of the factory grease, which was very thick and sticky. I lubed it up with Tetra-gun grease and put it away. This time it fed 40 rounds of pistol match without a hitch. That stuff shoots very nice too, I wish it were cheaper. The American Eagle rounds I got shoot nearly as well though, so it's OK. The orange paint I put on the front blade helped the sight picture quite a bit too. Fiber optics are definitely in the future, but this will do for now.
Here's a pic of the Colt with the new trigger. I really like the way it looks. Once it gets a stainless trigger it'll look really sharp. Thanks for looking. :smile:
Obviously this pistol could no longer fill in as the nightstand gun until it went to the range. So after class I loaded up the range bag and headed out. It put another 100 trouble-free rounds of FMJ downrange, and my groups tightened up noticeably. I'm still shooting a tad to the left, but it's improving. The new 22/45 went along for the ride as well. The first time out it had a lot of trouble feeding CCI pistol match ammo, which seemed odd. I detail stripped it after it's first range sesson and cleaned off all of the factory grease, which was very thick and sticky. I lubed it up with Tetra-gun grease and put it away. This time it fed 40 rounds of pistol match without a hitch. That stuff shoots very nice too, I wish it were cheaper. The American Eagle rounds I got shoot nearly as well though, so it's OK. The orange paint I put on the front blade helped the sight picture quite a bit too. Fiber optics are definitely in the future, but this will do for now.
Here's a pic of the Colt with the new trigger. I really like the way it looks. Once it gets a stainless trigger it'll look really sharp. Thanks for looking. :smile:
