Are these measured trigger weights, or estimates? All the gun reports I've seen so far on the SR45 are between 4.5 and 6.5. Even at 8 lbs, heavy trigger pull doesn't always equate to "execrable."
2 - 3 lb triggers are not what I'd want in a self defense gun (1911's excepted), especially one without a safety.
Some measured, some educated guesses based on comparisons to guns with known pulls. I never measured a stock Glock, but that's what the spec sheets always say. I didn't measure my old G21 either, but it felt exactly the same as Dad's G17, which measured 3.5 after the Bob Vogel drop in unit. My SA revolvers (the three pairs I currently have, plus three more pairs that I've sold) were all set up by the smiths who did the action work as 2 lbs, (except one pair of SBHs, which still have the transfer bars, and go 2.5) and four of them the smith put on the scale when I picked them up, because he's particular that way. My Remington 700 is a measured 2.2, as is my new Savage Mark II, as it's adjusted to match the Remington. The 1911s are a similar story to the SAs.
All that said, the SR45 was measured as well. Since I'd already borrowed the shop's scale to set up the Savage, it was no big deal to measure the Ruger as well, while I was playing with it. Over five pulls, it averaged 8.44 lbs, with a low of 8.25 and a high of 8.57.
Now, all that said, one of the reasons I like manual safeties is that they allow you to have a fairly nice trigger. But that's just the thing with the Ruger, it *does* have a safety.
Now, it being a carry oriented gun, I wasn't expecting a lightweight competition trigger. But, since it has a safety, and the trigger doesn't have to do double duty by making the gun hard to set off, I was hoping for something decent, on the order of 4-5 lbs. Double that, however, and I stand by my adjective. Execrable.
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