I'm going to buy a new S&W 69 and I'd like it to have a decent trigger. What should I do? (please read the "catch" below before commenting, because it's important).
* Get the work done by the S&W performance center from the factory? (what is the exact difference between the "combat revolver" and "master revolver" packages anyway?)
* Get the work done by a local gunsmith?
* Buy a spring kit and polish up the internals myself?
A 686 I handled in a gun shop recently had an absurdly heavy trigger. Must have been most of 10 lbs SA and 20 in DA (significantly heavier than any other DA revolvers I've ever touched). My concern is the 69 will be similar. This is not a carry gun. I'd like a light SA trigger for hunting/target shooting and DA trigger that's stiff enough to be good trigger control practice but still pleasant to operate.
Here's the catch: legally I'm a Florida resident but most of them time I thousands of miles away from there. So to get this gun I'm going to swing through Florida and stay there for about a week. I have a short window to get everything right. After I've left Florida I can't ship the gun to S&W or another gunsmith and have them work on it because they can't legally ship it back to me.
* Get the work done by the S&W performance center from the factory? (what is the exact difference between the "combat revolver" and "master revolver" packages anyway?)
* Get the work done by a local gunsmith?
* Buy a spring kit and polish up the internals myself?
A 686 I handled in a gun shop recently had an absurdly heavy trigger. Must have been most of 10 lbs SA and 20 in DA (significantly heavier than any other DA revolvers I've ever touched). My concern is the 69 will be similar. This is not a carry gun. I'd like a light SA trigger for hunting/target shooting and DA trigger that's stiff enough to be good trigger control practice but still pleasant to operate.
Here's the catch: legally I'm a Florida resident but most of them time I thousands of miles away from there. So to get this gun I'm going to swing through Florida and stay there for about a week. I have a short window to get everything right. After I've left Florida I can't ship the gun to S&W or another gunsmith and have them work on it because they can't legally ship it back to me.