How do I lessen the trigger pull on an AR 15?

[Rockthekazbah12]

Title pretty much sums it up.

[HK in AK]

Go to a adjustable trigger. I have used Timney Triggers.............expensive.......but very smooth. There are other ones in the market that allow you to adjust pre and post-travel of the trigger, plus allows you to set the pull weight.

http://timneytriggers.com/sunshop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=7

[HK in AK]

Minions,

The Timney Trigger I have in an AR-15 is much more crisp when it breaks, it really snaps....much better than the stock triggers. It is set at 1.75 pounds, which is really light.

[Mein Teil]

If you're not competing in any kind of combat senarios, putting in a custom trigger is fine and easy to do. You can polish the mating surfaces on the hammer sear and trigger but unless you have a real gritty one I wouldn't bother. If you're usingf this for home defense or just plinking Minions has it right.

[HK in AK]

The one with the Timney trigger is a target rifle with a 20 inch bull barrel. The others I have are stock triggers.

[Mein Teil]

The one with the Timney trigger is a target rifle with a 20 inch bull barrel. The others I have are stock triggers.

Great applications

[Commander Shepard]

All of mine are Geissele SSAs, stock triggers don't even come close.

[dangerdan87]

you could weld up the rear of the trigger that rests under the selector switch to eliminate most of the creep and have a crisp trigger squeeze. But most people just get a high quality drop-in trigger such as a Geissele.

[Geezah]

Bill Springfield, can take a factory trigger and reduce it from 7-8lbs to 2.5lbs, or 3 or 4lbs depending on what you want, and it's cheap at around $60 dollars.

Bill Springfield (http://www.triggerwork.net/)

[C.Puffs]

Don't fvck with the springs would be the smartest. Why would you want to, anyway's? I have the KAC match set and there isn't any difference. It's all in the breathing, trigger pull and proper placement of the finger on the trigger. The AR is one of the very few rifles/guns that is very accurate for it being a simple rifle to be used for combat. Here's a good example, a few years ago an M16A2 with no match parts beat the M14, which was glass bedded. It surpassed the MOA that was the requirement for the US Army. Here's a figure;


Any idea what kind of ammo they were using?

[Hollis]

If you're not competing in any kind of combat senarios, putting in a custom trigger is fine and easy to do. You can polish the mating surfaces on the hammer sear and trigger but unless you have a real gritty one I wouldn't bother. If you're usingf this for home defense or just plinking Minions has it right.

^^^ what he says. Also why?

(Just don't screw with it, if your doing it on someone's recommendation "yeah man all the top shooters have lighten triggers". ) Too many people will ruin a the action on a firearm thinking it will improve how they shoot, nothing is a real substitute for range time and excellent training. Short cutting learning how to shoot by spending more money on toys is not the way to go..

Just sayin'.

[Kilo1-1]

Title pretty much sums it up.

What kind of shooting are you doing? Do you want to keep a single stage trigger or get a 2 stage trigger?
The cheapest and quickest way is to get the reduced power springs (like JP). I have a set of reduced power action springs in my AR now. It's functioning as it should after a couple hundred rounds (close to 1K maybe). There has been reports of these type of springs causing light primer strikes though in some rifles though.

[SMGLee]

Don't do a trigger job, because if you grind on the harden surface of the engagement area of your trigger/hammer, you will end up expose the metal underneath the harden area and reduce your trigger service life. don't bend or cut spring unless you know you are only shooting commercial soft primer ammo. because as soon as you introduce the hard primer military surplus ammo into the mix. you will have a lot of failure to fire...

What to do?

Buy a set of match trigger. I for one are happy with LMT dual stage trigger, it is light enough for precision work and robust enough to have on a combat gun. I dislike those adjustable triggers where you have to adjust a screw or two allen screws. any time you introduce adjustment into a combat gun, you introduce out of adjustment when you are shooting. unless you are build a precision rig, stay way from any match trigger that adjusts....