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I'd take it as an opportunity to upgrade the trigger and be done with it. Hate sending shit back when you can fix it yourself for a hundy, get a better trigger, and avoid the headaches. But I guess to some it would lose its shiny veneer as it would no longer be all original Colt......
If you go as far as replacing the trigger group to get a better trigger, you might as well go all out and get it Geissele SSA-E.
I’m still curious to know if the trigger groups affected by this recall all came from the same supplier, and who that supplier is.
I get that… but sort of pisses me off to buy a $900 rifle, and have to be worried it will break and turn into a s***y binary trigger without warning.
I probably do have a mil-spec trigger laying around, but I don’t feel that I should have to purchase a trigger to make sure the gun will function correctly. Nor should I have to screw around with it. If Colt would send a new hammer… I’d toss it in just to not have to deal with the lower being in transport for a week (not to mention all the carriers suck in respect to time and package handling). But as stated… it’s liability with trigger components. I get that, which is why I was shocked when two members suggested that was an option.
I can swap a trigger easily… but it’s not the point. Colt’s fault for a bad batch of hammers that they purchased, so they can foot the costs on shipping (hell, they can send me the box and packing material) and paying someone to swap the trigger… because it isn’t right out of the box. Same would have happened it something else was messed up on a new gun. I only purchase used guns for a project (try not to if I can help it), not a brand new AR.
We are qualifying at work these two weeks, so I rather have tossed the Aimpoint on and zero it between the end of that and winter starting up (it’s unfortunately coming). A trigger may be an option down the road, but I like running it stock to see if it is really needed.
Last edited by Screwball; 11-09-21 at 08:47.
If anyone is looking to just purchase a “stock” trigger, the ALG QMS (the ACT, too) happens to have “S” stamped on it, just like my non-recalled Colt.
Edit: sidenote…. Wasn’t someone speculating in another thread like a year ago that Schmid had some role in manufacturing G triggers?
Last edited by 1168; 11-09-21 at 09:17.
These things happen. Schmid makes an unbelievable amount of FCGs for ARs.
They make them for Daniel Defense, BCM, Sionics, SOLGW, LWRCI, Spikes, PSA, ALG, Dirty Bird, R2B, almost all of them. Every nickel teflon enhanced mil-spec trigger is likely made by Schmid, the vast majority of triggers in any decent LPK is as well.
Be happy that Colt identified that there was an issue and got in front of it.
Last edited by 17K; 11-09-21 at 21:40.
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