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    Duh, just send it to Bill Springfield and let him work his magic. That was the best $35 I've spent on my AR.
    It has worked for some folks, but many (like myself) have ended up with unsafe ruined triggers.

    Or pay for a ALG trigger.
    A better idea. One is in my 6920 now. Just don't expect anything more than a decent mil-spec type trigger. The topic has been beat to death elsewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clint View Post
    I use the IOSSO bore cleaner for initial break in of sears and 400 grit lapping compound for receiver squaring.

    IT is very fine and seems to do a nice job.
    What sort of receiver squaring?

    Regarding set screws and triggers, I had a Bushmaster varmint rifle, very accurate, seemingly well made, reliable except for the trigger which had two small and two teentsy weentsy set screws right through the safety drum. It's not a Bushie design, Bushie just used it, someone else designed it, I forget who. Damn fine trigger when it worked which was most of the time, the rest of the time was the problem. The two set screws that adjusted the trigger kept moving and I didn't really want to have to keep playing with them or to sock down on the teentsy weentsy set screws which locked the set screws for fear I'd have to machine the damned safety out due to boogered set screw threads. Pretty much broke me of set screws in the trigger of a black gun.

    I put in a Double Star single stage trigger recently. Pretty nasty out of the box. It has cleaned right up with about 1K shots.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suwannee Tim View Post
    What sort of receiver squaring?
    Squaring the front edge of the receiver where the barrel extension goes in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlelebowski View Post
    Because triggers smooth out and are a smaller part of the equation in carbines than folks think. Not buying hardware means folks would have to concentrate on software and gun owners think they can buy their way into skill.
    A gun's trigger is its "primary control," and I think it's a big part of the equation.

    I agree that it's harder to acquire the software than the hardware necessary to shoot well, but shooting a gritty trigger (like mine was when I bought it) is akin to running with a rock in my shoe — maybe wanting to fix it makes me a wimp or a poser, but I'll be damned if I'm going to try to learn to work around it.

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    For years I wanted every trigger I owned to be nearly perfect which is nearly impossible if you own more than a few guns. Then I decided to learn to master the uglier triggers and I have gotten pretty good at it until my SCAR 17S showed up. It's trigger is so bad I don't think it can be mastered. There is a happy medium between being a trigger snob and developing the skills to master a less than ideal trigger. I can handle any reasonably good or bad trigger now. My skills at handling very light, very sweet triggers have deteriorated though. I fired five shots out of a gorgeously beautiful custom Husquvarna 6.5 Swede last Friday, I couldn't group, the trigger was just too light.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bimmer View Post
    A gun's trigger is its "primary control," and I think it's a big part of the equation.
    If you are putting together a precision rifle with a high quality high power optic then an aftermarket trigger would be part of the equation.

    While the trigger is a gun's primary control it is not as vital on a pistol as it is a rifle.

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    I have been trying to convey this message for a long time and as others have mentioned in this thread, if people would assemble their lowers and properly lube the FCG when installing, or popping out the FCG on a new weapon, degreasing and then greasing key areas, many would see a good improvement on the "creep". There is a reason that aftermarket trigger manufacturers require lubrication or greasing areas when installing their parts. Nothing is different when doing stock installations, but many overlook this or don't even think about it then complain about horrible triggers. Yes some USGI types are not as good as others, but all of them tend to improve with grease and use. Yes there are ways of speeding up that smoothing out process besides shooting, but that is often a good learning process.

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    There's an easier and less expensive way to do the screw under the trigger mod. Just go down to your local hardware store and purchase a 1/4-28X1/2" set screw. Remove the pistol grip. Take set screw and put a little Loctite 222 on it and install in the grip screw hole, before replacing the grip. Adjust set screw as necessary to achieve desired result and replace grip. To change adjustment, merely remove grip and re-adjust. Much simpler than getting to the setup Brownells sells, and shouldn't cost more than $1. This ain't an original idea on my part.

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    Quote Originally Posted by M90A1 View Post
    There's an easier and less expensive way to do the screw under the trigger mod. Just go down to your local hardware store and purchase a 1/4-28X1/2" set screw. Remove the pistol grip. Take set screw and put a little Loctite 222 on it and install in the grip screw hole, before replacing the grip. Adjust set screw as necessary to achieve desired result and replace grip. To change adjustment, merely remove grip and re-adjust. Much simpler than getting to the setup Brownells sells, and shouldn't cost more than $1. This ain't an original idea on my part.
    1/4x28x1/4 you mean?
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    I do not have any experience with the set screw but understand how it works. I agree with F2S, I do not like the idea of pre-loading the trigger on a duty or SHTF gun.

    What I do have experience with is Geiselle's SSA trigger and it is head and shoulders above what you are going to get screwing around with the stock trigger.

    In the end screwing around to try to save $150 could come back to bite you in the ass and cost you a lot more money.

    The US military has plenty of specialized armorers, tons of set screws and lapping compound and they don't screw around, they just install a Geiselle.

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