Irritating Creeps..?

[Chuckindenver]

CLARK!!!, great to see you..i was just thinking about you the other day,
my dad asked if id emailed or chatted with you in a while,
talked to Wolff the other day, likely ill buy some of his collection..
Bill Rutheford is looking pretty bad these days..lost both legs , and his daughter moved him in a home...very sad..
its good to see you still poking around the net..

[Shiloh]

While cleaning and polishing will smooth both stages and a lighter return spring will reduce the weight of both, the most effective way of removing creep (lengthening the first stage and shortening the second) is to alter the height of the rear trigger hump.



One year at Perry a hut-mate had an 03-A3 with an annoyingly long, creepy second stage. Lacking proper tools, I knocked out the trigger pin with a nail and "stoned" the rear hump on the hut's concrete floor. It worked - though I sent him out to commercial row for a new spare trigger before starting, just in case. If you try something like this, just remember that it doesn't take much of this "stoning" to shorten the second stage significantly. If you go too far, there will be no second stage, but you can reduce the front hump to restore it. Too much of this back-and-forth and it's time for the new trigger.

I found this post while lurking here at this forum for a while now. My trigger looks as if it has already had stoning of the trigger humps. So I won't mess with it till I get a spare. I picked up a couple of sears at the last gun-show for a $1 apiece. No triggers though.

I did polish the sear face with 600 grit, then 2000 grit and finally FLITZ. THere is a noticable reduction in the creep, and a nice clean break. THe original sear looked like someone chewed edge where the face and top meet.

Thanks for the pictures Parashooter. Helped a lot to know what is going on.

Shiloh