I just had a trigger job on my Kimber compact - quality (I guess) tool steel match hammer and sear, 4.5lb (the stock pull was a disturbing 3.5 lb so it's not that I'm making the gun more dangerous than stock).
The trigger job feels good.
However, I started dry-firing it a little away from the shop, and I once pulled the trigger (safeties off) and rode the hammer down. It seems to grab a little at the half-cock notch (No, I did not rest it there; but there's some real resistance - not enough to catch the hammer if I release it but it catches if I hold about 1/2 the weight). This is with the trigger all the way down.
I was planning on taking the gun to the range on my lunchbreak tomorrow and trying the trigger out. Now I find myself asking you guys (seems to be a lot of knowledgeable gunsmiths and tinkerers on this board) whether I should be returning it for work, and whether or not I should consider the hammer or sear to be effectively destroyed (i.e. make him replace it), or just shoot it and ignore this, or shoot it and have it just break in.
thank you for your time.
Battler.
The trigger job feels good.
However, I started dry-firing it a little away from the shop, and I once pulled the trigger (safeties off) and rode the hammer down. It seems to grab a little at the half-cock notch (No, I did not rest it there; but there's some real resistance - not enough to catch the hammer if I release it but it catches if I hold about 1/2 the weight). This is with the trigger all the way down.
I was planning on taking the gun to the range on my lunchbreak tomorrow and trying the trigger out. Now I find myself asking you guys (seems to be a lot of knowledgeable gunsmiths and tinkerers on this board) whether I should be returning it for work, and whether or not I should consider the hammer or sear to be effectively destroyed (i.e. make him replace it), or just shoot it and ignore this, or shoot it and have it just break in.
thank you for your time.
Battler.