Continuation - Trigger Work

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I wanted to expand on Trigger work as I am furius because of what I have seen done to the gun owners handguns in the past 25 plus years for the sake of some BS artist making a few dollars. Its very wrong to exploit people and take advantage of them when their very lives are depending on what was done to their carry handgun. YOU DO NOT LIKE WHAT I AM SAYING, TOUGH, PISS OFF AND GO BACK TO THE PINK RUBBER DUCKY CHAT ROOMS WHERE THEY WILL FEED YOU A LINE OF BS. This is the real deal here and if I do not know, I will tell you that I do not know. I have seen horror stories thru the years.


First let me say real clear that I have personally hand cut between 7000 to 10,000 1911 hammer hooks by hand without a milling machine. When I say by hand I mean just that, using a stone and a jig and checking it on a microscope. My hooks are 90 degrees and not 100 or 110 or 115 degrees, THEY ARE A TRUE 90 DEGREES WITH NO VISIBLE RADIUS WHEN USING 25 or 30 power magnification. I have never seen one of my hooks break because of not having a radius, its all BS you are reading in the "PINK ROOM"..... The thread I read about hammer and sear angles is the biggest line of BS I can remember reading in a long time. Always remember in the land of the blind THE ONE EYED MAN IS KING.


Harry Truman said that "I TELL THEM THE TRUTH AND THEY THINK I AM GIVING THEM HELL" well I am about to give you a parrallel scenario regarding trigger work. I will mention handguns and tell you what was done but I will not tell you the genius who did the work out of courtesy.


I had a new Sig Sauer in here years ago that had just had a trigger job done by a well known name on the south east coast and the owner was in a panic because he could barely pull the trigger in the double action mode. When I examined the pistol I immediately saw that the trigger bar spring was installed in the wrong hole in the trigger bar and that could have caused the sig owner his life in a social encounter. This is a very common mistake and the man that did the work would deny it but this story is true.


I have done revolvers that were perfect and the customer then sent the revolver to a plater in the northern part of the country for hard chroming. This plater bead blasted all my fine work and he ruined everything. I wrote the plater letters but he refused to answer me. The problem with many refinishers is that they do not know what areas to stay away from. The basic plating was good but the timing was ruined and he created an endshake problem etc, etc, none of which existed after I did the work.


I noticed that CASPIAN is now enclosing a disclaimer form with their new slides that if you do not install it correctly on the oversized rails of the frame you will void your warranty. I do not blame Caspian in the least because of the damage people are doing when mating a frame to slide. This is not an easy job and the reason that every custom 1911 pistol I have ever made has been using stainless steel is because I refuse to be at the mercy of a platers employee after I am finished. I personally have always refinished the stainless steel pistols myself by hand. I basically trust very few people in this world with my work.


I have always had a good working relationship with most of the factory gunsmiths. They all know the kind of quality work I have always produced. I have seen so many guns butchered by private individuals I do not even know where to start. The two types of handguns that are abused most are the 1911 pistols and revolvers of all kinds. YOU CAN NOT JUST CHANGE SPRINGS WITHOUT TAKING THE FRICTION OUT OF THE ACTION AND EXPECT A WONDERFUL HANDGUN. Yes or course they will not agree with me because they want the green money in your pocket. ITS ALL ABOUT "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN....


I keep my own carry handguns as simple as possible. Mine have no bells and whistles, they are refined and I do not care one bit which caliber I use, I do not care about whether I carry a revolver or a semi auto, I have adapted. What I do care about is the noise of the cartridge so as not to hurt my dawgs hearing if it came down to them being in the area of having to discharge a round in their presence. I have had personal conversations of factory people which I can never repeat and they get constant repair jobs done by the same working smiths that require new parts.


I have not gone into to much detail. I am running out of time for now. I am going to put this commentary up right now and I will continue it later as time allows during the day or even tonight. All my commentaries past and present are my personal opinion and if you have a question please email me. I have a lot more that I want to say about this very subject and I will.


This commentary is being continued Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 5:16 pm central time.
I have a great deal of problems with the blogger system, one day it works fine and the next day I can not write anything and get it published.

First let me say that there is nothing wrong with buying a used handgun PROVIDING YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR. I am continually turning handgun work down because they are used guns and the new owners do not have a clue what the history of their new handgun is and they were told that it was perfect. Well in some cases that is true but with my declining health I will no longer take in a used handgun of unknown background. I want no part of it.

Looking back to all the butchered jobs I have seen makes me break out in a cold sweat. The kind of handguns that I have seen that were ruined the most by incompetant wannabbeeee smiths are the 1911 pistol and revolvers of all kinds and then there are the sig sauer handguns that are easily ruined by incompetant workmanship. These people that work on 1911 pistols think they are easy to work on and there is no truth to that at all. Its not easy to fix the feed ramps and the extractors and these wannabbees can not cut hammer hooks because they simply do not understand how. They certainly can not understand what angles to cut on the sear until they understand the hooks and what there goal is in trying to achieve a trigger pull that breaks like glass. It can not be taught that easily. It helps if you study books and you learn the various concepts but that is as far as you will ever get.

Many people call me and ask me how to use the excellent "POWERS" jig, I tell them that I do not ever use RON POWERS click adjustment method. I just use his jig so that I can cut strait cuts on sears and hammers but I select the degree of angle I want to achieve as the geometry in every frame is different. There is no rule of thumb, the reason that I can make an upgrade kit that will work in most every frame is that I came up with a method that calculates the various dimensions when installing my parts. I have a totally different concept of evaluating my geometry and it has worked for me for many years. Just ask some one that has installed one of the hammer and sear kits I have made. I do not have to send my hammer to anyone to have them cut it for me, if I could not do it I would have willingly gone out of business a long time ago. I have learned to do everything myself as my way of doing things is totally dependent on one person and that is me.

I have worked on so many different ypes of handguns its unreal. I do not like working on "P" series Ruger pistols but they can be improved a great deal and I certainly know how to do it. I do not like working on any Taurus product but they certainly can be improved a great deal, I doubt that I will ever take in many more of these Taurus handguns. I like the large Berettas and I do not like the after market triggers that offered by Langdon. If you like them thats fine.

I do like to work on third generation SW pistols as I do consider them very reliable. I have done extensive work on them and I do like their 3913 in 9mm. One of my favorite handguns to work on is the Browning Hi Power in 9mm only. It is a superb weapon and I have seen many of the experts ruin this pistol because they do not understand what to do. I never like to use anything but original factory parts. A BHP can be a wonderful handgun when properly tuned and the safety is properly locked up on the sear. Most people do not know what to do, they add all kinds of after market parts to this old war horse that is un necessary. (If you want to read excellent articles on the BHP and the SA mil-spec 1911 pistol go to Stephen Camps website at www.hipowersandhandguns.com

My friend Mr. Camp is a no nonsense type of person that is the real deal and most of these other write ups in publications could learn a great deal from him. We are now finalizing the project street gun and we have had excellent results. We have learned a great deal about how difficult it is to get certain parts and we will never have a class this large in order to improve our efficiency. If we decide to do it again 10 will be the maximun amount of people. Please email me your thoughts on this at tjacobson@houston.rr.com In the next go around I will cut the bendable tabs on either a King or Greider trigger in order to make it easy for the gun owner. I have mastered that technique with specialized tooling.

The handgun action is the very heart of what is so important and all the rest is total BS. You can either use skate board tape or have the finest hand cut checkering or the finest machine cut checkering on your front strap, but in the end it is the refined action that will make or break you and all the rest is BS. The bells and whistles mean nothing to me cause when you must squeeze that trigger it must go bang. NEVER LET ANYONE INSTALL AN 18 or 19 lb. hammer spring in your 1911 pistol if you are depending on using that handgun for protection of life and property. The reason that they want to use 18 or 19 lb springs is that it is easy to get a lighter but mushy trigger pull, always remember that all 1911 pistols that are full size or commander size come with a 23 lb. hammer spring which is the factory standard.

If you will please email me with suggestions for a future commentary I am open minded and I will try and work out the details with you. ALWAYS REMEMBER THESE COMMENTARIES ARE MY PERSONAL OPINION AND MY PERSONAL VIEWPOINT ONLY. You have every right to disagree with me but its doubtful anyone in North America has my vast experience doing trigger work since the 1970 era. I am always available to present your options to you. To those people that I have turned down work on their handguns please do not take personal offense, it was based on my declining health. Years ago I would have never trurned down this amount of work but I realize my era is coming to an end but I will still do some work each week. My quality is better than ever and I know more than ever but everything comes to an end.

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