Ruger 22/45 improving trigger pull

[Christoefor]

I know that on the Ruger 10/22 the Volquarten hammer is the best way to get a good trigger pull. On the Ruger 22/45 is the sear or the hammer the best way to go. Allready have the Volquartsen trigger. Thanks for any advise

Chris

 

[JohnKSa]

There's an overtravel adjustment on the front of the standard Ruger trigger (you'll have to disassemble the gun and remove the trigger to adjust it.)

If you're fairly handy, you can adjust the overtravel properly, polish the sear surface with some 1000 or 1500 grit sandpaper on a hard surface, maybe cut a quarter turn out of the trigger return spring and you're good to go.

The trigger return spring is the coil spring that sits under the plunger in the recess in the trigger body.

Be careful pushing out the trigger pin. It's held in place by the slide lock spring.

 

[Christoefor]

Thanks John but since I already have the Volquartsen trigger installed I think I'll just go with the Vol hammer or sear. You don't have to pull the trigger to adjust it, just remove the reciever from the grip. Factory trigger that is. The Volquartsen trigger has an alan screw in the face of the trigger.
Thanks for the tip on the sand paper though.
Chris

 

[Hal]

Inside the frame is a steel bar that rubs against the side of the polymer frame. It takes a few thousand trigger pulls to really smooth the 2 surfaces together.

Field strip it and work the trigger a bazillion times while reading THR or watching TV.

Or

Do what I did and just take it out a shoot it a few thousand times. My bone stock .22/45 w/well over 30K rounds has a very nice silky smooth pull that my newer .22/45 w/only a few hundred rounds doesn't have yet.

After getting the 2 surfaces mated in well, I find a dab of grease AND a drop of oil keep that action silky smooth. Actual trigger weight ins't any lighter, the action is just a whole lot smoother.

IMNSO, the polymer frame of the .22/45 and the way that bar works against it,, will always have an advantage over the steel framed Mark II when it comes to a smooth trigger. I shot a full blown Volquartsen Mark II once. While it was a nice crisp action, it wasn't anywhere near as smooth as my well worn in ( and bone stock) .22/45.
Having the Volquartsen parts in there should make yours a real dandy once it's worked in.

 

[JohnKSa]

the polymer frame of the .22/45 and the way that bar works against it,, will always have an advantage over the steel framed Mark II when it comes to a smooth trigger.

Hadn't thought of that, but my 22/45 does give folks big eyes when they try the trigger. It's stock--I didn't even shorten the return spring. Nothing but the overtravel adjustment and a dab of moly grease on the sear. I may have polished the sear, but I can't remember right now.

 

[Amish_Bill]

Moly grease is my friend. I refer to that and a small, hard Arkansa stone as the poor man's trigger job. Use the stone to remove the worst of the burrs and irregularities, use a little moly on the contact surfaces -- wham!

 

[JohnKSa]

It's pretty slick, so to speak.

It will often lighten a trigger by 1-2lbs with no other work.