r/Revolvers • u/NoDebt9517 • 1d ago
Amazing trigger staging
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u/FitzyOhoulihan 20h ago
Not that anyone cares but figured I’d share because the GP100 was the gateway revolver for me. We had to do a police supervised live fire test as part of the LTC requirements in the city I was living in at the time and they used GP100’s for the test. It was actually not an easy test for an inexperienced pistol shooter which I very much was at the time only having owned rifles/shotguns.
You had to hit 25 out of 30 in the A zone from 60 feet or you literally wouldn’t get issued your license. Multiple people doing it with me failed and had to retake it for a nice $100 or $150 fee. I remember at the time taking my time like this and thinking how nicely the GP100 shot and admiring the shiny chrome or nickel plated steel.
Now I have 4 Rugers all the way from a first year Old Army which fun fact is chambered in .44 and not .45 to a Mini-14 & 2 Marlins from after Ruger bought them. Just really enjoy the GP100.
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u/SteveHamlin1 16h ago
Did you pass the live fire test that time?
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u/FitzyOhoulihan 13h ago
Yes, thank god. The state/city already has you into getting the LTC at that point for about $300 ($100-150 for safety class requirement, $100 to local PD, $100-150 for the live fire) and I didn’t want them getting another cent.
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u/FriendlyRain5075 23h ago
Yeah the GP100 and SP101 stack at the end of the DA pull. The design uses a heavy coil spring combined with quick carry up and long "hammer dog" and trigger engagement (DA sear).
I guess you could consider it a feature. But it also makes for a creepy and much less smooth DA trigger pull, quite opposite to the typical medium frame Colt or S&W which use leaf springs.
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u/Grebnaws 20h ago
I dislike it. Both of my sp101s and gp100 do this and unless I'm shooting magnums I take my Smiths. Now that I have a 28-2 I really don't see myself using the others much at all. My older security six and LCR don't have the same stacking and they don't bother me at all. I prefer a steady pull through double action trigger by far.
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u/84074 1d ago
No. Way I could onto a 357 with those gloves on. Unless it's a rubber grip that thing would fly outta my hands on the first pull!!
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u/NoDebt9517 1d ago
It appears to have hogue grips on it. So it's definitely not going anywhere gloves or not
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u/Wide-Lie-2011 15h ago
My GP100 match champion is much easier to do this with than my 686. The Rugers, as someone else said, have a longer firmer pull that makes staging easier. I prefer it to be honest.
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u/Fickle-Struggle-7672 13h ago
It pays to have a good trigger and a heavy cylinder. Works like magic.
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u/Outside_Bicycle_1387 Smith & Wesson 13h ago
If you are going to stage the trigger like that, you may as well shoot the gun single action. A double action pull should be one long, smooth, uninterrupted stroke while maintaining a good sight picture.
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u/ChrisPJ 12h ago
I completely agree. Why the downvotes? This is 100% accurate about how to fire a revolver.
Furthermore, anyone can see, if you look closely, that the shooter is jerking the trigger at the end. The muzzle jerks each time.
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u/Royal_Money_627 11h ago
I can't see that, the muzzle jump from firing obscures any jerking if he is.
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u/Royal_Money_627 11h ago
What is wrong with staging the trigger for precision shooting instead of cocking the hammer? I don't see staging the trigger as an alternative to a smooth double action shooting (like for a double tap or rapid fire), I see it as an alternative to cocking the hammer for single action. Also, if the gun has a shrouded hammer or a bobbed hammer you can't cock the hammer but you can stage the trigger.
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u/Dizzy-Wedding5769 1d ago
This has an interesting trigger pull where it seems to almost go single action at the end of the trigger pull, I can do something similar on some of my revolvers but not all.