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Originally Posted by red-beard
Could a GP100 be gone over to improve the trigger, or is it a design issue?
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Oh, certainly, the Ruger's action can be improved markedly by someone familiar with them. Most of the "roughness" is attributable to their chosen manufacturing methods, with a lot of relatively unfinished investment cast parts. Remember, Ruger made their name through perfecting the investment casting process, eliminating a good deal of the hand fitting required of other manufacturers' designs. The downside, though, is you can "feel" it in their actions. Take 'em apart, polish 'em up, and maybe add a Wolfe spring kit, and they can be wonderful. Put the same work into a Smith or Colt, however, and they are even wonderful-er. So, yes, some of it is design, I guess, but most of it can be overcome. On the GP 100, anyway...
Their Redhawk is the one that kind of confounds me. There is nothing that can be done with this one, due purely to design issues. It has the oddest trigger and hammer spring arrangement - one spring shares both duties. Clever, I'll give them that, but impossible to lighten the trigger or smooth the action:
