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Originally Posted by flatbutt
I wonder what the pull weight on that trigger is?
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Unless it's been worked on to reduce the pull weight, most SAA's and their clones I've seen are over three pounds, if not four to five pounds. I see no reason why a prop gun would ever receive any attention in an effort to reduce its trigger pull and, even if it did, it's almost impossible to get these things under about two and a half pounds. Unlike double actions, the rear end of the trigger goes into a notch on the hammer, directly, with no intervening mechanism to help with leverage. The hammer must fall with a certain minimum force to make the thing go off, requiring a certain minimum weight of hammer spring, which directly influences how hard it is to pull that end of the trigger out of the notch in the hammer.
In other words, there is no such thing as a "hair trigger" on a single action. It takes a very deliberate pull to make the hammer fall. Those of us who have played this game for awhile all knew, from the get go, that Mr. Baldwin deliberately pulled that trigger. Worse yet, he had to have deliberately pulled the hammer back before he did that. Two very deliberate, unmistakeable actions carried out against some very noticeable resistance.
Like I said, these idiots don't even know enough about any of this to tell good lies about it. But, they do count on their adoring fans and apologists to not know either. The fact that this had to go all the way to an FBI forensics test is ludicrous but, in the end, probably necessary to convince folks what really took place. Experienced single action shooters knew from the first report but, then again, we see self appointed experts who have never handled one who think they know better. We see that at play on this very forum, every day, on a myriad of topics...