DPMS trigger

[Caster]

So, am I wasting my time with a DPMS trigger group?

I traded for a good bunch of parts and they are all new. I put the DPMS trigger group together in my Tactical Innovations lower to see what I had. Now, the last two AR's I built must've been super luck, the triggers were great!! This one sucks BIG TIME. I think it's about 40lbs and even though I stoned all the rough edges out using Gesswein stones (left over from when I used to work in Tool & Die) I took great care not to change any angles or remove any material more than necessary to smooth out the tooling marks. It still sucks. I'm going to bend the hammer spring a bit to bring it parallel with the hammer, and take a little more pains polishing the surface. I don't mind if I scrap them, but I'd rather not. Are they even worth fooling with, or should choke on the cash it takes get a drop in unit. Usually I am not excessively anal about the perfect trigger like some people, but my SP101 in double action mode feels better than this.

..and yes I know lots of people can do this for me, but that really defeats the "I built this" doesn't it?

[mikegideon]

They kinda suck. Replacing them with a Geissele SSA works real well. I have two of those, and will probably buy a third for my current build.

[Dolomite_supafly]

DPMS is a good a trigger for stock builds. It is about all I use and never had a problem. I am able to easily tweak them to give me ZERO take up. Makes the trigger feel better than what it is and with a little more tweaking I can reduce the factory trigger to under 4 pounds and still fire anything I want including hard primers. If no hard primered surplus is in the future I can get the trigger to under 3 pounds. I have actually fired a lot of hard primers with the sub 3 pound trigger without issue but I still prefer a stiffer hammer spring.

I have tried two stages and they are nice but there is a trade off. There generally is a lot of take up even compared to a factory AR trigger. They are light though. Using the same methods I also remove a lot of the pretravel on two stages.

It all comes down to preference. Some prefer a two stage and some, like me, prefer a single stage.

PM me your address. I'll help that trigger out for you. Won't cost you anything other than about 15 minutes.

Dolomite

[mikegideon]

I thought about doing your tweaks to my current build, because I'm tired of buying triggers. I love a good single stage trigger, but am just fine with a good 2 stage.