About a month ago I bought a new Ruger SP101, deburred and (very lightly) polished the innards, and have done a ton of dry fires. It works fine, but the action just isn't close to what I was able to achieve with the GP100. I'm not talking about how heavy it is. I don't want this gun to have a light trigger. I just want it to be smooth without any staging, and it just isn't...well it sort of is and sort of isn't.
If put a finger on the cylinder to give it a little drag, just a little, the pull is smooth, I can't feel any staging, and basically it's what I expect. That's what I want all the time, and it seems strange to me that just a little drag makes it right. Sometimes I get that without adding the drag on the cylinder, but generally I don't. Pulling the trigger at slow to medium speed, there's a short range where only a little pressure is needed. Then just after the cylinder latch drops to the cylinder, I have to pull harder. Pulling through I sometimes feel what I think is rough contact between the pawl and the ratchet. Whether or not I feel that, it seems to want to toss the cylinder to lock up, i.e. the cylinder rotation outruns the trigger pull. When pulling the trigger relatively fast it's OK, and the gun will run as fast as I can pull the trigger with no binding at all. I'm thinking the ratchet on the cylinder star or the hand is to blame somehow.
I've worked with Ruger on other guns, but in those cases it was obvious that the gun needed fixing. In this case the gun works. There's no binding or anything. I just suspect it's not working as well as it should.
What do you think? Something I can fix? Something for Ruger to fix? Or something I'd need a gunsmith for?
If put a finger on the cylinder to give it a little drag, just a little, the pull is smooth, I can't feel any staging, and basically it's what I expect. That's what I want all the time, and it seems strange to me that just a little drag makes it right. Sometimes I get that without adding the drag on the cylinder, but generally I don't. Pulling the trigger at slow to medium speed, there's a short range where only a little pressure is needed. Then just after the cylinder latch drops to the cylinder, I have to pull harder. Pulling through I sometimes feel what I think is rough contact between the pawl and the ratchet. Whether or not I feel that, it seems to want to toss the cylinder to lock up, i.e. the cylinder rotation outruns the trigger pull. When pulling the trigger relatively fast it's OK, and the gun will run as fast as I can pull the trigger with no binding at all. I'm thinking the ratchet on the cylinder star or the hand is to blame somehow.
I've worked with Ruger on other guns, but in those cases it was obvious that the gun needed fixing. In this case the gun works. There's no binding or anything. I just suspect it's not working as well as it should.
What do you think? Something I can fix? Something for Ruger to fix? Or something I'd need a gunsmith for?