Re: Im such a gear whore
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DP425</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My curiosity is on a couple levels- first, what makes up this kit?
Second, is the trigger modified to such an extent that holstering could prove hazardous? 1911 you have a manual safety, which is one of the only times I feel they are of benefit- BECAUSE of the short trigger pull. Otherwise, I do prefer the lack of manual safety due to the long trigger pull of DA's and striker guns like the glock </div></div>
Short answer (I don't think so).
I can only speak for the "edge" trigger from the same company. It was a complete trigger system swap including striker and safety springs. I swapped the lighter mainspring, for a 3 coils shortened factory spring because the light pull also resulted in a faint squishy trigger reset which to me was not desired. I want the trigger to snap and pop like OEM. I shortened it a couple coils because it was simply resulting a trigger too heavy for something I paid $154 for. I cut 1/2 a coil at a time, reassembling to test subjective feel- wanting to strike a balance between crisp action and excessive pull weight.
Once I did that, the trigger feels like OEM Glock, but has a short reset, short pre-travel, and a overtravel stop and a lighter pull that doesn't at all feel "too light for duty use". I adjusted the over travel stop from where it came stock. I put it together dry fired 10-15 times, and experienced a failure to fire with normal trigger pressure. I backed it off 1/4 turn. I tested it again- 30-40 dry fires it happened again, another 1/4 turn. Now I couldn't get it to fail, so I backed it off another 1/4 turn and called it good- this was less over travel than as it came from glocktriggers.com, which IMO was enough it was only marginally better than OEM Glock.
This resultant trigger IMO is about as safe as OEM glock. The trigger safety is still functional, the firing pin drop safety is functional etc. All it accomplished was a reduction of pre-travel/overtravel/and about 16 ounces of trigger pull weight. (This sounds like I'm marginalizing- in reality this is about all that you can hope to do with the Glock system). Think Glock meets cool Sig short reset trigger.
In order to get the glock to fire when holstering you would need to pull the trigger [and disengage the trigger safety]- so maybe your shirt enters the trigger well and you seat the pistol and the shirt pulls the trigger-
In don't think a pound of pressure is going to make the difference between safe and not safe. What will, is making sure your T shirt is clear of the holster.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Looking at the website it appears the difference between the "Edge" and "Haley skimmer" is that the Edge uses reduced power springs, while the Haley model uses standard springs- also the Haley model does not have adjustable overtravel.
So maybe Haley had the same observation I did- the reduced power springs make the trigger squishy and reduce the reset feel.
I think most of that is the firing pin spring which drives the feel of the system more than any other spring.</span>
Haley talks about it for 12 minutes here:
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