tazman
07-08-2019, 11:32 PM
The PRP trigger for my Springfield XDm 45ACP and the punch set arrived today so I did the install this afternoon.
My first recommendation is watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8-ycZ_XxMQ
It is very useful and show all the steps and most of the details necessary for a good install. He leaves out a couple of tidbits that I had to work out for myself to get the install completed.
I suspect he has done it often enough that he doesn't think to tell you that you need to do certain things.
Not a big deal but it wasn't completely intuitive.
After watching the video and working with the pistol, I started the install. I won't do a step by step as the video covers that better than I could.
The thing that the video didn't tell you, is you need to hold the trigger back while putting the locking block back into the pistol. If you don't, things won't line up right and the trigger will go forward far enough it won't work. You need to play with things a bit to get the holes to all line up. DO NOT FORCE THE PINS. If you do, you will break something.
Once you get the pins started moving out of the way, you can move them with hand pressure using the punch set. The punch set, while not absolutely necessary, made things much easier.
All in all, the installation took me a little over 30 minutes to accomplish. I didn't hurry and made sure I understood the video at every step.
I ended up not replacing the springs for the striker and the striker safety plunger. I tested them, but they made almost no difference in the pull of the trigger. These are the springs that actually fire the cartridge so, for the sake of reliability, I left the factory springs in the gun and only changed the trigger springs and trigger.
This kit doesn't give you a trigger comparable to a 1911. But it should make his gun a much better shooter for me.
Before I began the install, I tested the trigger pull with my trigger gauge. It was showing 6 lb pull. After the install, it showed a consistent 3.5 lb pull.
There is still some take up on the trigger pull and just a bit of over travel. Not as much as before but still some there. The reset is very fast.
If a person has any mechanical skills at all and can follow directions from a good video, you should have no trouble doing this install.
I can deal with the take up. I can deal with the over travel. What I could not deal with was the 6lb pull weight. Due to an old injury to my trigger finger, I have trouble with control when the weight exceeds 4.5 lb. At 3.5lb, I should have no trouble with this at all.
One of the more expensive models might give a better trigger. I wanted to try one that didn't require any fitting and this one didn't.
The next step is the range and to see how much it improves my groups. A better trigger always helps me in that regard. Assuming this one works as I think it should, I will be doing another install on my XDm 9mm.
My first recommendation is watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8-ycZ_XxMQ
It is very useful and show all the steps and most of the details necessary for a good install. He leaves out a couple of tidbits that I had to work out for myself to get the install completed.
I suspect he has done it often enough that he doesn't think to tell you that you need to do certain things.
Not a big deal but it wasn't completely intuitive.
After watching the video and working with the pistol, I started the install. I won't do a step by step as the video covers that better than I could.
The thing that the video didn't tell you, is you need to hold the trigger back while putting the locking block back into the pistol. If you don't, things won't line up right and the trigger will go forward far enough it won't work. You need to play with things a bit to get the holes to all line up. DO NOT FORCE THE PINS. If you do, you will break something.
Once you get the pins started moving out of the way, you can move them with hand pressure using the punch set. The punch set, while not absolutely necessary, made things much easier.
All in all, the installation took me a little over 30 minutes to accomplish. I didn't hurry and made sure I understood the video at every step.
I ended up not replacing the springs for the striker and the striker safety plunger. I tested them, but they made almost no difference in the pull of the trigger. These are the springs that actually fire the cartridge so, for the sake of reliability, I left the factory springs in the gun and only changed the trigger springs and trigger.
This kit doesn't give you a trigger comparable to a 1911. But it should make his gun a much better shooter for me.
Before I began the install, I tested the trigger pull with my trigger gauge. It was showing 6 lb pull. After the install, it showed a consistent 3.5 lb pull.
There is still some take up on the trigger pull and just a bit of over travel. Not as much as before but still some there. The reset is very fast.
If a person has any mechanical skills at all and can follow directions from a good video, you should have no trouble doing this install.
I can deal with the take up. I can deal with the over travel. What I could not deal with was the 6lb pull weight. Due to an old injury to my trigger finger, I have trouble with control when the weight exceeds 4.5 lb. At 3.5lb, I should have no trouble with this at all.
One of the more expensive models might give a better trigger. I wanted to try one that didn't require any fitting and this one didn't.
The next step is the range and to see how much it improves my groups. A better trigger always helps me in that regard. Assuming this one works as I think it should, I will be doing another install on my XDm 9mm.