Originally Posted by
Tar Heel
The G2 frame definitely has a hard trigger and is "chunkier" than the original frames with their sweet sweet triggers. The nice thing about the G2 frame is their beef. With the extra metal along the axis, they are going to withstand some of the hard pounding that can be delivered with a .375-JDJ, .411-JDJ, and a .45-70 SSK barrel. When I was doing load development for the 411 and the 375, I was constantly worrying about stressing the G1 frame up near 40K PSI. Convention has it that the G1 frames are spec out at 44k PSI max before damage can be done including cracking.
Another good feature of the G2 frame, well the trigger actually, is that new T/C shooters will not let off rounds unintentionally with the harder trigger. I can't begin to tell you how many people I let shoot my T/C's had the gun discharge before they had it on target, or otherwise ready to shoot. The light trigger got them every time - even though I had warned them REPEATEDLY about the light trigger. I had one friend, a "gunsmith", peel the skin off his thumb gown to the bone when he discharged the .45-70 with the muzzle pointing up at about 70 degrees. The recoil brought the hammer down his thumb from the tip to the palm and flayed it beautifully. I could see the entire bone and knuckle down to the web of the digit. The G2 isn't this sensitive.
Of course to a seasoned T/C shooter who cut their T/C teeth on a G1 frame, the G2 is horrendous to fire. Having fired one now for a few years, I am getting better with the hard trigger and it fits in with other pistols with equally hard trigger pulls. Hollywood Triggers if you will. That didn't help Baldwin though did it?
Truthfully, I have not looked for springs or aftermarket trigger components for the G2 frame. I am just going to deal with the factory trigger. I appreciate the extra beef the frame offers for my real hard kicking SSK barrels. Were I going to take a ram at 250 yards though with the .375-JDJ, I would definitely use the G1 frame which has taken its share of abuse from the SSK family of barrels already.
Apparently the use of G1 and G2 naming conventions is inaccurate. The G2 frame is actually called a G2 frame by T/C but there never was an actual G1 name. In fact, you probably know that there were 3 distinct (some say 4) versions of the G1 frame, but we all simply refer to them all as a G1. My preference is the rotating lever for the firing pin on the G1.3 frame.
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