How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? - The Firearms Forum

dbltap · 03-16-2010, 05:11 PM

What do you have for a trigger pull on your 1911 concealed carry gun? This could get a bunch of different answers but it should show a pattern. My theory is the more experience the carrier the lighter the pull or is there a line you don't cross with a ccw rig.

Orlandorealtor · 03-18-2010, 05:27 AM

4-5 according to Kimber. I like the trigger pull it has!1

al45lc · 03-18-2010, 09:11 AM

I like 4-5 lbs, which my Kimber is. On one occasion I used a friends gun in informal competition with a 3 lb pull and came to the conclusion that it was too light for me, I ended up shooting too soon in many cases.

Marlin · 03-18-2010, 09:39 AM

I like a three pound pull. It took me several years to adapt but it was worth it.

I have carried CCW for fifty years this year !!!!

Old Grump · 03-18-2010, 02:32 PM

4.5 pounds because its what I'm used to. I could handle 3 pounds or 6 pounds but it just doesn't feel right.

tex45acp · 03-31-2010, 06:30 PM

4lbs that breaks like glass with aboslutely no creep!!!

old semperfi · 03-31-2010, 06:43 PM

for the most part every gun i own that i can fix or adjust the trigger pull i stay at three pounds.the only exception is my tactical rifles are at one and a half to two. old semperfi

RJay · 03-31-2010, 10:14 PM

In a gun that you don't want to go off by accident, I feel 4 pounds is the lowest limit. For target My guns are set up for a 2 Lbs. but some something as critical as CCW, 4lbs, JMHO

JLA · 03-31-2010, 10:35 PM

3 for me. i can handle a little creep, absolutely hate overtravel and the trigger must break like a stick of glass..

carver · 03-31-2010, 10:58 PM

3 pounds, and smooth as silk!

kimberstainless · 04-23-2010, 03:43 PM

on my ccw kimber i have a 2.5 lbs pull and its great no force at all breathe on it and it goes off

michael t · 07-04-2010, 08:19 PM

4lb is min I try to stay at 4 1/2 range

johnlives4christ · 07-05-2010, 03:59 AM

3 1/2 is fine for mine

hogger129 · 07-05-2010, 08:56 AM

5 lbs

Gordon Shumway · 09-28-2010, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hogger129

5 lbs

5

I had a 4 double tap on the combat range and then upped it to 5.

Gordon Shumway · 09-28-2010, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hogger129

5 lbs

5-6

I had a 4 double tap under high adrenalin on the combat range and then upped it to 5.5

Everybody thought it was a deliberate double as I hit within 3 inches.

I'm talking for daily carry gun here, not paper punching. A little more trigger poundage is moot under stress at 15-20 feet.

03-16-2010, 05:11 PM	#1
dbltap V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 110	How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? What do you have for a trigger pull on your 1911 concealed carry gun? This could get a bunch of different answers but it should show a pattern. My theory is the more experience the carrier the lighter the pull or is there a line you don't cross with a ccw rig. -->

03-18-2010, 05:27 AM	#2
Orlandorealtor Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 10	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 4-5 according to Kimber. I like the trigger pull it has!1

03-18-2010, 09:11 AM	#3
al45lc Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: colorful colorado Posts: 1,016	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? I like 4-5 lbs, which my Kimber is. On one occasion I used a friends gun in informal competition with a 3 lb pull and came to the conclusion that it was too light for me, I ended up shooting too soon in many cases.

03-18-2010, 09:39 AM	#4
Marlin TFF Admin Staff Chief Counselor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At SouthernMoss' side forever! Contributor Posts: 13,853	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? I like a three pound pull. It took me several years to adapt but it was worth it. I have carried CCW for fifty years this year !!!! __________________ *The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.* *The only criminal class native to the United States is Congress.*

03-18-2010, 02:32 PM	#5
Old Grump Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Little hut in the woods near Blue River Wisconsin Posts: 2,285	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 4.5 pounds because its what I'm used to. I could handle 3 pounds or 6 pounds but it just doesn't feel right. __________________ "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."~~- Thomas Jefferson Roman Catholic, Life Member of American Legion, VFW, Wisconsin Libertarian party, Wi-FORCE, WGO, NRA, JPFO, GOA, SAFand CCRKBA

03-31-2010, 06:30 PM	#6
tex45acp V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Great State of Texas Posts: 190	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 4lbs that breaks like glass with aboslutely no creep!!! __________________ *The only thing needed for evil to exist......is for good men to stand by and do nothing!!!*

03-31-2010, 06:43 PM	#7
old semperfi Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: i live in southern indiana,old country boy at heart Posts: 1,506	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? for the most part every gun i own that i can fix or adjust the trigger pull i stay at three pounds.the only exception is my tactical rifles are at one and a half to two. old semperfi

03-31-2010, 10:14 PM	#8
RJay Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,485	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? In a gun that you don't want to go off by accident, I feel 4 pounds is the lowest limit. For target My guns are set up for a 2 Lbs. but some something as critical as CCW, 4lbs, JMHO __________________ RonJames

03-31-2010, 10:35 PM	#9
JLA TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Heart Of Texas Contributor Posts: 17,305	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 3 for me. i can handle a little creep, absolutely hate overtravel and the trigger must break like a stick of glass.. __________________ It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze. The latest caliber or gear is no substitute for experience and skill. Rifles and cartridges don't make hits -- shooters do. Fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

03-31-2010, 10:58 PM	#10
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,227	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 3 pounds, and smooth as silk! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

04-23-2010, 03:43 PM	#11
kimberstainless Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: southwest ohio Posts: 3	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? on my ccw kimber i have a 2.5 lbs pull and its great no force at all breathe on it and it goes off __________________ they might kill me with my own gun, but they'll have to beat me to death with it cause it'll be empty

07-04-2010, 08:19 PM	#12
michael t Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: outback ky Posts: 17	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 4lb is min I try to stay at 4 1/2 range __________________ WWJBD What Would James Bond Do

07-05-2010, 03:59 AM	#13
johnlives4christ Former Guest Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,828	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 3 1/2 is fine for mine

07-05-2010, 08:56 AM	#14
hogger129 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4,064	Re: How many pounds is your 1911 ccw trigger? 5 lbs