Mushy triggers

[AK0perator47]

I have seen multiple posts here and other places about triggers. I understand gritty triggers, dak, dao, sao, da/sa triggers, srt, glocks half tension triggers and even competition triggers. I don't know what people are referring to when they say a trigger is mushy. Please help me understand. Thanks.

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[GOG]

I think it's like trying to explain what is is.

 

[The Heretic]

To me, a Glock or similar trigger (Kahr) is a mushy trigger. It may have something of a break at the end, but to me it feels like I can pull that thing forever and it will just keeping worse and never break. And I have a lightened trigger on my G21.

 

[The Heretic]

To me, it is kind of like a rubber band - kind of elastic - you think it will never break.

 

[mrblond]

squeeze the trigger on a Wather or HK a nd you will see

 

[No_Regerts]

For me, all striker fired guns have a mushy trigger. Its the act of compressing the striker spring. For a fighting pistol, I don't mind or really even notice it much.

I do like DA/SA guns though. You can carry it safely with the hammer down and no safety. You can draw it and thumb the hammer if you have time to make a deliberate shot. I tend to shoot much better with DA/SA past 15 yards.

 

[308]

Think breaking a candy cane vs breaking a carrot.

 

[The Heretic]

For me, all striker fired guns have a mushy trigger. Its the act of compressing the striker spring. For a fighting pistol, I don't mind or really even notice it much.

I do like DA/SA guns though. You can carry it safely with the hammer down and no safety. You can draw it and thumb the hammer if you have time to make a deliberate shot. I tend to shoot much better with DA/SA past 15 yards.

Yup - I much prefer my SIG 229 to any striker fired handgun I have tried so far.

The worst trigger that I can recall, was not a striker fired gun, but something else; a Keltec P10. If I recall correctly, it had a windup clock spring. I hated everything about that pistol.

 

[Joe13]

One you can pull back like taffy and then let go and the gun still won't fire.

Obviously, if you pull all the way it will break and fire.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Think breaking a candy cane vs breaking a carrot.

Great analogy 308!!!

A past its prime, soft carrot!

 

[The Heretic]

Think breaking a candy cane vs breaking a carrot.

Yup, good triggers have been described breaking like a glass rod.

 

[No_Regerts]

Yup - I much prefer my SIG 229 to any striker fired handgun I have tried so far.

The worst trigger that I can recall, was not a striker fired gun, but something else; a Keltec P10. If I recall correctly, it had a windup clock spring. I hated everything about that pistol.

My P229 is my favorite gun. Its a bad SOB. My P226 does a lot of sitting on my nightstand because of it.

 

[AK0perator47]

My P229 is my favorite gun. Its a bad SOB. My P226 does a lot of sitting on my nightstand because of it.

I have 2 Sig 229. I love them both.

 

[AK0perator47]

So it's the long trigger pull before it breaks? I also then think about the pull of a revolver. The same long pull before it breaks.

 

[jbett98]

Most triggers feel mushy after you've shot a Colt Python.

 

[digitalaaron]

So it's the long trigger pull before it breaks? I also then think about the pull of a revolver. The same long pull before it breaks.

My understanding is that it's a long pull with increasing resistance that doesn't have a hard wall before the break.

 

[AK0perator47]

My understanding is that it's a long pull with increasing resistance that doesn't have a hard wall before the break.

I can understand that. I guess that it doesn't bother me at all.

 

[bbbass]

Nah!!! Think of a mushy handshake and you will have the idea. No firmness, no feedback from the mechanism that tells you where you are in the pull.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Mushy triggers ....Some things penicillin can't even cure...
Andy

 

[AK0perator47]

Mushy triggers ....Some things penicillin can't even cure...
Andy

I completely understand now!