SP101 Trigger Job?

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I took my .22lr SP to the range for the first time today and was surprised by the accuracy. I fired a total of 200 rounds, with about 140 DA and 60 SA. No problem at 10 yards freehand keeping shots within a 2" circle, or a 4" circle at 15 yds. This is the snubby 2.25" model.

But the DA pull is HEAVY and really started to wear on me around 100 rounds. Ruger triggers tend to go pull-click-bang and I couldn't pull through to the BANG after awhile. I think alot of it was finger fatigue.

What's the going rate for a trigger job on a SP101? A gunsmith near me says $110 and that it'll be a HUGE improvement. I like to shoot it DA, but it seems to have the typical SP heavy DA pull.

Or should I just dryfire the heck out of it and it should improve? It's just a fun-gun & plinker, so maybe a trigger job is overkill. It's also a training tool for DA shooting.
 
I think I'd be OK with a smooth, but heavy trigger on a trainer. I'd suggest dry-firing, spring swap and mirror polishing before taking it to a smith. JMHO.
 
Is a spring swap easy to do-it-yourself?

Since it's a rimfire I want to be careful about light strikes though.
 
If it's anything like my GP100 (which I think it is) it is very easy. You might want to practice disassembling the SP101 a few times polishing the contact points with a compound before swapping springs. I didn't need them after a few thousand dry-fires and polishing. I may do it in the future, dunno.

If you light strike, choose a slightly stiffer spring (included in the kit.)
 
Trigger Job

Here is a link to doing a trigger job posted by Iowegan (a professional gunsmith) over at the Ruger Forum:

http://www.rugerforum.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/001218.html

Scroll down a bit in the thread to Iowegan.

Springs will reduce the pull somewhat but it cannot be taken down in pull as much as a centerfire and reliably fire the rimfire in double action. Still, it can be reduced a fair amount. Also, with some polishing a lower spring rate can be employed, especially, on the trigger return.
 
That clickity -click language that occurs in the da cycle of the ruger sp-gps can be a useful thing. It lets you know just were your hammer is as you milk the trigger. I like to use an agressive trigger finger placement shooting double action and stage it to some extent. This is of course, wrong but I can get very good accuracy even with the factory strength mainspring.
 
That Ruger trigger job is just what I did combined with the spring kits from Worlfe and it made a big difference in the DA pull, but still can't compare to a S&W DA trigger. Don't even try the lowest spring setting on the spring kit because it won't be reliable in igniting certain factory primers. You want your gun to go bang all the time. josh
 
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