Posted: 1/5/2012 7:06:21 PM EDT
| I have a NIB Smith/ Wesson mod. 10-6 with a 4" barrel. I am going to give it to my mom for home protection. I need a good gunsmith to lighten the DA trigger pull, radius the trigger and do a trigger job. I dont care if I have to ship it out of state, I just want some one good. Any recommendations ? |
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If you can find a combat rebound spring, it will help. And you can install it yourself, it's a drop in. But don't back off the main spring screw, you could have misfires. It's ok for a target gun, not one for defense. edit: Brownell's has them, or you can order different weight springs and a better main spring from Wilson. |
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How light are you wanting to go? What I do with Smith k frames is take all the internals out, clean thoroughly then reassemble using molyslide or similar product; then dry fire a lot. Things smooth up nicely and there's no stoning or filing required. Get a rotary tool with a felt buffing wheel and Flitz it until it shines. Works great. |
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Call the S&W Performance Center. This is probably your best answer^^^ If you have to ask, you likely should not be 'smithing on a gun that will be used for serious purposes. Lots of guys replace springs or hack and whack parts without having the slightest bit of real knowledge about a duty or HD revolver 'action job'. You don't want 'light'...you want 'smooth'...but polishing off all the case hardening will cause much faster wear on the parts. S&W will do it right provided you tell them what you will be doing with the gun, and they will warranty all work as well. |
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If you can find a combat rebound spring, it will help. And you can install it yourself, it's a drop in. But don't back off the main spring screw, you could have misfires. It's ok for a target gun, not one for defense. edit: Brownell's has them, or you can order different weight springs and a better main spring from Wilson. I use the 13 lb rebound spring is almost all of my S&W revolvers. Wolf makes them. If nothing else, some people say you can cut off two coils off the factory rebound spring which has 17 coils. Smooth up the sides of the rebound spring with a hard Arkansas, lube the pivot pins on the hammer and trigger with a good synthetic grease, put in the 13 lb rebound spring, and it will make a huge difference. |
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I don't recommend the S&W Performance Center. I've owned a few PC guns and they are OK, but I don't think they are the true custom shop they were years ago. I was really disappointed in their work.
Karl Sokol at Chestnut Mountain Sports does all my revolver work. Between carry and competition guns, he's built six for me so far with several other's planned. He's a true one-man shop unlike most of the other custom gunsmiths out there. I was surprised to learn that many of the high end smiths act more like a general contractor sending your gun, or parts of it, all over the country. Want a Bomar cut on a 1911? They send it here. Need a S&W action job? They send it there. Unless you are looking for some custom finish that Karl doesn't offer, nobody will touch your project except Karl. I like knowing who is actually doing the work. |
| Don't have any recommendations for who to use just a caution to ignore advice to break out a dremel and just polish everything till it shines. Doing so without knowing what NOT to polish can easily result in a trigger that's much worse than you started with and/or has a dangerous single action. I've learned to do my own trigger jobs but you really need to understand the inter-relationships of the parts and the timing to do a solid job. Good idea to send it to a pro. |
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Quoted: I have opened up some S&W revolvers that were nearly void of any lubricant.Cleaning and some lube helped them quite a bit. I had one brought to me once that when dry fire was attempted, the hammer would not fall. Opened it up and found enough lint for a small rat's nest. |
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I have opened up some S&W revolvers that were nearly void of any lubricant.Cleaning and some lube helped them quite a bit. My 642 was full of metal shavings from the factory. After washing it out with Gunscrubber and re-lubing, I dry-fired it several hundred times, and re-washed and lubed. My wife has arthritis in her fingers, and carpal tunnel pretty bad, she couldnt pull the trigger before, afterwards she has no problem. |