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Posted: 11/16/2016 5:45:22 PM EDT
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I just picked up a 1990s era Colt lower with the sear web. (Not the blocking pin)
Do I have any options for drop-in aftermarket triggers with the web in place? |
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geissele make 4 different trigger's for colt .170 pins SSA SSA-E high speed national match super 3 gun …and all will fit the receiver without milling out the sear area. I would go this route and leave the web alone (especially a LEO RESTRICTED marked lower, altering it will degrade the receiver resale value). |
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A bit late now , forgot to hit the submit before dozing off.
Let me go the other way,(I had written a longer reply when there were only the first few comments about removal . Glad to hear you are preserving it) The decision/suggestion to not mill it out, often comes with years of experience, hindsight, lessons learned by others' mistakes(no one can make them all) and realizing you've destroyed something that should have been saved. Because of poor justifications like "it is what I had and can be turned into what I wanted more with no perceived cost incurred(equity and future return fallacy), the "they're so cheap" ,".. plentiful..", "...endless surplus..... " " My one won't matter" etc... All are semi- faulty reasons to do something. It is one thing to change out stocks, another to alter the receiver permanently. Especially on an official historic brand company limited made piece like this. Restrictive uses sucks, but viewable even as a defect can make it worth more than the sum of an unmilled 80%lower done in the same fashion. Notice how many historical examples of each model/design are shrinking in all areas(there are running cars, train engines, and airplanes that the risk to take them out is too great for loosing the last running example), be it time/increased fatigue from use , accidents, and/or bad luck with mother nature coming in for the clean up kill. All can erase most anything from existence. Who knows, that extra metal may salvage a "Kaboom" and/or help hold the receiver body together and absorb more of the forces to an advantage towards less harm . Side inward forces definitely have more to overcome to damage it. So there are some perks for leaving it place. Hope they never happen, but if fate deals you a bad hand, you might get the odds tipped back in your favor. I agree it is not ascetically pleasing and a reminder of bad times. I hope it doesn't limit your desired trigger selection. If you can't use it the way you want, maybe find someone to trade a different receiver for it? You can probably walk away with a different brand lower receiver with coins on top of the deal. One day in the future even the idiotic featureless, altered to comply, and/or prevent some modification ban period versions and adaptations on things will become retro period pieces to have in the collection. Those "1994 to 2004" year's model designs. Ironic as it may seem, people came of age may duplicate their first rifle which was a ban period rifle because they altered or sold it off to get a regular version. One of the biggest regrets most gun owners have is selling their first gun to get another gun. It by virtue of being removed by many others ....becomes a valuable collector's item, especially being from Colt and unmolested. Plus think of the "know it all"s you can trump with a "what's this?" at the LGS, range and/or gun show. Extra value right there. 
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