I'm not too impressed with the trigger on my new Super Redhawk. I've heard that a set of Wolff springs should help but there is a lot of creeep in the single action that the springs aren't going to help.
Who specializes in this type of work? What should it cost? Any chance of sending ONLY the trigger assembly, rather than the hassle of shipping handguns all over the place?
VH

Varmint Hunter,

The SRH is a great handgun for a serious dedicated hunting handgun, but as you noticed, they can have the famous Ruger lawyer-proof trigger.

In my shop I see quite a few of these and most just need a little smoothing to be good triggers, but they must be smoothed in the right spot. I have had to fix more then one SRH because of a home grown trigger job.

For just a trigger job I charge $45.00 plus shipping. For a full smooth and tune along with the trigger job I charge $65.00 to $85.00 plus S/H, depending on the amount of labor required.

From the other jobbers in my area, this is about average but check in your area to be sure.

I will not sent a revolver out of my shop with a trigger less then 3 lbs. There is no need as a clean, crisp 3 pound trigger will allow as accurate shooting as the handgun will do. Unfortunately, going less is to great of a liability these days.

About the Wolff spring kits, I would never endorse installing a lighter main spring in any handgun or revolver. They just produce more reliabiltiy problems then needed. All of the other springs can help to lighted up a double action pull a bit but on a hunting rig, what is the benifit.

It is the creep in your trigger that is raising hell with you, not the springs as you already mentioned. Get her smoothed up and your problem will be gone.

Let me know what you want to do and if you would like, I will get you my shop address.

What round do you have the SRH in? I have an older 44 Mag with a 9 1/2" pipe and a new 480 Ruger with 7 1/2" barrel. They are big guns but for a treestand revolver, they are hard to beat, especially after a little rubbing in the right spots.

Good Shooting!!!

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Fiftydriver,
My SRH is a 454 Casull. Will likely shoot handloads far below the threshold of human tolerance.
I'll assume that you can not rework the trigger assembly without the rest of the gun.
I have done this with a few Rem triggers and it makes life a little easier.
VH

Fiftydriver,
Other than the trigger work, what is actually done on a smooth and tune job? Forcing cone, crown?
VH

Magnaport is pricey, but all the redhawk and superredhawks I've handled that had an action job by MNP were amazingly smooth.

The other thing to have done if you want a top notch SA release is to have the trigger guard d/t'd for an overtravel screw.

For some strange reason of the SRH's I've handled, the 454's seem to have gritty actions, but the 480's are smoother. Admittingly that was only a few guns of each.

I still need to work on mine to reduce the SA creep.

Speaking of Magna-port, any opinion on having their 4 port magna-port job performed on my 7.5" 454? Recoil reduction vs noise/blast.
VH

I don't think I've shot a MNP SRH 454, though I have shot a 5 1/2" and 7 1/2" FA 454 w/ MNP. Personally, I don't think the MNP does much to reduce recoil, and I don't want anything that will direct more muzzle blast towards my face, especially if I have to fire in unconventional positions.

Varmint hunter,

When I do a smooth and tune on a SRH, I will smooth all the bearing surfaces in the action. These include, the trigger, hammer, hand, cylinder stop, main spring strut and all surfaces where these parts can make contact with the frame.

Also I will check the crane and cylinder for any burrs that may be causing resistance as well as checking the recoil shield where the center pin slides over to see if it needs polishing.

Keep in mind that I do not make all of these surfaces mirror perfect, just smooth off any burrs or machining marks that may cause resistance.

Like I said earlier, this is all minded toward a very nice single action trigger pull. I feel that the double action pulls on most SRH are plenty refined for the amount of times they will be employed, in my case, I honestly can not remember when I have ever ran the SRH in double action but all of mine are dedicated big game hunting revolvers and used for deliberate, accurate shooting at close to medium range.

I am sorry to say that the entire handgun is needed for a good trigger job to be performed, there may be others out there that would do this work on just the trigger assembly but I am not one of those. Beside, every rifle or handgun I touch in the shop is test fired before it heads back out the door. Firearms can behave differently under live fire conditions as apposed to dry firing, I want to know how the firearm will behave for its owner the first time it is fired at home.

Magna-port does a great job on smoothing and tuning revolvers, every one I have played with has been very nice.

As far as having your SRH ported, I would say NO! I have shot a few handcannons before and after being magna-ported and can honestly say I felt that the handguns kicked harder after the porting job.

To be fair, they really did not kick harder but because the ports prevented any muzzle flip or the majority of it, all the recoil energy that was left when straight back into the hand.

I like the big guns to roll or at least lift a bit to waste some of that recoil energy, getting the majority of it straight back at you is not my idea of a better recoil system.

The only down side that I see for me to work on your SRH is that I live in central Montana and you are a little ways east in New York. In all honesty, there are probably plenty of smiths much, much closer to you then myself.

The way I feel about our shipping companies these days, i'm not sure i would trust them with your fine handgun for that much distance.

Good Shooting!!!

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