Springfield Armory's Trigger Work

[TMan]

While at my dealer's yesterday, one of her customer's brought in a couple of guns that he wanted to sell his wife wanted him to sell. One was a Wilson Combat, which was like one that I own. The other was a Springfield XD like mine. Well almost like mine.

Mine came with night sights, his didn't. He sent it back to Springfield Armory to have a "trigger job" done on it and have night sights put on it. He said the total outlay for this work was $270. I wasn't aware that Springfield had a "performance center" where they did work like S&W was.

Well he racked the slide, showed me it was empty and handed it to me. He said to pull the trigger. I just about had to excuse myself and go to the bathroom. The trigger couldn't have been more than 2lbs.

They have some real artists at Springfield Armory.

[5ontarget]

Sprigfield armory custom shop. check them out here. www.springfield-armory.com/prod-pstl-cust.shtml

Also Rich at Canyon Creek has a great reputation with XD's.
www.canyon-creek.com/

Barsto also does some custom work too. Doesn't seem to be as popular as SA, or CC for trigger work. Great bbls.
www.barsto.com/category_main.cfm?ID=CGW

[TBT]

Yeah I've heard alot about how nice the triggers can be on XD's. I think their pretty good right out of the box actually. The stock XD trigger IMHO is easily the best DAO pull I have ever felt. Not much worse than a lot of single actions out there to be honest.

[TMan]

Well TBT, I kind of share your feelings, but my trigger gauge doesn't. In fact, I have tried it with two different gauges with the same results. I'm breaking at 6.5lbs.

Having said that, in spite of the heavy pull, I shoot it much better, as I've said numerous times before, than my Glock 34.

Light pull isn't everything. I took the Ruger P90 to the range today since it has been over a year since I last shot it. It breaks at 3.5lbs, and I was all over the place. Mostly I was over around 9 and 10 o'clock.

[TBT]

Yeah, I've heard it is actually a lot heavies than it feels. I think the angle and travel length have a lot to do with it. The XD trigger really is pretty nice right out of the box.