What is the best trigger job I can get on a glock?

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Super-Dave

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I am not talking about sending it off to someone. I am just talking about buying parts and swaping them out.

I would like a 3.5 pund pull and a crisp trigger with no creep is this possible?

If so what do I need?

If a crisp trigger is not possible, What is the best products to use for the 3.5 connector?
 
You cannot get a "trigger job" by dropping in after-market parts. You can get it lighter but if you want the real deal, you will need much more than that. My G34 breaks at 2.75# and has a very short re-set and an over-travel stop. It's not a tuned 1911 but it has one hell of a trigger for a Glock. My other 13 Glocks have varying degrees of the same thing, depending on what I use them for. My carry gun smooth but about 4# and my main hunting gun (G20) very smooth, crisp and 3.5#. The others are somewhere in between.
 
Well, as I said above, if you want a "trigger job", you will either need to send your gun to someone or learn how to do it yourself. You may find it cheaper in the long run to send it to someone that does it professionally. The cost of shipping may be an issue for you. If it is, pick the closest person to you. If it's not, do some research and send it to whoever you think is best.
Trigger jobs vary greatly in price, some costing over $100. You can check our site for details of our work if you wish. Glocksmith
 
I put in a 3.5# factory Glock disconnector and a Wolff spring. It was cheap.

Then one day I stopped by the gun show and there was a local guy there who was doing trigger jobs. He took the overtravel out. I think he took a little material off the trigger bar. IIRC, it was around $50.
 
Get the ghost rocket connector and reduced power spring kit. Call nick @ north Texas glock works 1-214-277-4247 for details.

You will need to replace the firing pin spring, trigger spring, and firing pin safety spring. Nick has a great package for 11.00 dollars.

You will need to install the ghost rocket connector 25.00 bucks. The ghost rocket will require fitting for the over travel stop. This is easy however it will require an armorers slide cover plate and tool......like 9 or 11 bucks. Nick will walk you through the easy process.

Lastly you will need to polish several areas. I can list them for you or you can see it being done on you tube.

It is easy. I was fearful at first however it only takes about an hour once you know what you are doing. Maybe less.

Less than 50 bucks and a bad to the bone trigger. Plus an intimate knowledge of you Glock. I will help you if you need it.
 
I would like a 3.5 pund pull and a crisp trigger with no creep is this possible?
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Sure, buy a pistol where the trigger wasn't designed by lawyers...:rolleyes:

Seriously, that's the whole point of a Glock! It was designed to have a bad trigger to reduce civil suits against nervous cops who shot people accidentally. So, no matter what you do it's going to have a long spongy trigger pull.
 
Seriously, that's the whole point of a Glock! It was designed to have a bad trigger to reduce civil suits against nervous cops who shot people accidentally.
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Not true. Some agencies asked for heavier trigger pulls however normal Glock triggers are 5.5 lbs. Out of the box they are ok. Other manufactures are guilty of this but not Glock.
 
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If you want a nice trigger pull don't get a Glock.:barf: They are good guns, but I could not stand the trigger. Like others have said the drop in parts lighten it but do not perform a "trigger job". I toyed around with the idea of changing parts on my Glock 17, but found a great deal on a 1911 with a trigger job already performed by my local and trusted gun smith. I bought the 1911 and sold the Glock and never looked back.

Not trying to Glock bash, but personally I felt like trying to mess with the Glock trigger system wasn't worth it IMO. For DAO semi auto's, Kahr takes the cake for trigger pulls. It is exactly what you would want in a CCW DAO trigger pull.
 
Ghost Rocket, Lightning Strike Aluminum Trigger, Lightning Strike Titanium Firing Pin Plunger, (optionally, Lightning Strike Titanium Striker), Wolff 6lb Trigger Spring. Manual smooth and polish of all connecting surfaces.

That will get you a hell of an awesome trigger, but it's not cheap.
 
Some agencies asked for heavier trigger pulls however normal Glock triggers are 5.5 lbs. Out of the box they are ok. Other manufactures are guilty of this but not Glock.
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It's not the weight, it's the length of pull. The Glock was marketed to police agencies from the beginning with the selling point that the long miserable trigger pull would mean less accidental shootings of suspects held at gunpoint. Prior to that, they were using DA/SA pistols and the transition between the pulls often led to accidental shootings if the pistol had already been fired, or if the cop had thumbed the hammer back.

Glocks are specifically designed to have a bad trigger to reduce civil liability. Training can overcome that bad trigger, but it's still a bad trigger.
 
It's not the weight, it's the length of pull. The Glock was marketed to police agencies from the beginning with the selling point that the long miserable trigger pull would mean less accidental shootings of suspects held at gunpoint. Prior to that, they were using DA/SA pistols and the transition between the pulls often led to accidental shootings if the pistol had already been fired, or if the cop had thumbed the hammer back.

Glocks are specifically designed to have a bad trigger to reduce civil liability. Training can overcome that bad trigger, but it's still a bad trigger.
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Please stop listening to whom ever is feeding you that line of garbage. The rearward travel of my stock Glock 21 trigger is a whopping 5/16th's inch ( or this long -----). It resets after about 1/8th inch forward travel and will fire again with 1/8inch rear travel (or this long --). If you have ever even dryfired a Glock you would realize the incredible nonsense you just posted. Heck even the gun with the greatest trigger in the world, the 1911, moves 1/8th inch to the rear on a stock colt commander. BTW I'm measuring them as we speak.

So police departments went to the Glock with its 5/16 inch initial trigger pull to avoid problems cause by da/sa guns like sig 229's and h&k usp's both of whom have 7/16th inch single action rear travel. Come on now admit you have little experience with Glocks.
 
Please stop listening to whom ever is feeding you that line of garbage. The rearward travel of my stock Glock 21 trigger is a whopping 5/16th's inch ( or this long -----). It resets after about 1/8th inch forward travel and will fire again with 1/8inch rear travel (or this long --). If you have ever even dryfired a Glock you would realize the incredible nonsense you just posted.
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Please... I've been shooting for many years and that includes Glocks. What I stated above is quite true - the long pull was (and still is) a selling point for police agencies.

And yes, you can learn to overcome the bad trigger by not allowing it to go all the way forward. It's just that with SA pistols, you don't have anything to overcome. They have a short crisp pull to begin with.
 
Which is simply personal opinion, and not fact for everyone.
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Number of bullseye competitions won with Glocks?

Number of bullseye competitions won with SA pistols?

Glocks are good pistols for a number of reasons, but trigger pull isn't one of them.
 
It's just that with SA pistols, you don't have anything to overcome.
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...except for the manual safety. You'll find damned few rank and file police departments using SA pieces for this very reason, among others...
 
Number of bullseye competitions won with Glocks?

Number of bullseye competitions won with SA pistols?

Glocks are good pistols for a number of reasons, but trigger pull isn't one of them.
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I suppose that may be important if your a bullseye shooter, then again, I wouldnt be carrying a bullseye gun, or any match gun for that matter, in my holster.

Personally, I dont see what the big deal is with the Glock, or for that matter, any of the other out of the box triggers, except for maybe Springifelds crappy 1911 triggers. Everything else I've owned for the most part, have been fine, and very shootable.

I'm always amazed at the SA shooters who dont seem to be able to shoot anything else, so everything else is "bad", since they cant shoot them. Seems like a lack of training on their part to me. :D
 
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