Improving your Glock trigger

Other than the sights, Glocks are perfect just the way they are.

Seriously, just taking a few classes will make you appreciate your Glock. You’ll see most other guns fail all the time. They are heavier, they break, have sharp edges that cut the hands of the shooters, have problems feeding, ejecting and so on. You even see this with guns worth thousands. Glocks rarely have such problems, and they keep up with the best in terms of accuracy for all practical purposes.

The trigger though, yes, it has that staple gun feeling going on. Which is fine for a fighting gun. Now, if you want to improve it some, there are a couple things that can be done. It will never be a fine tuned 1911 race gun, and I’m not suggesting spending crazy money on a new trigger kit.

What I did was install a ZEV Race Connector v4 and ZEV’s competition trigger spring.  I didn’t install the reduced power firing pin spring and firing pin safety spring, which would have brought down the trigger to around 3 lbs, mostly because I didn’t want it to be too light and because a lighter firing pin spring means you could have problems if the gun is dirty or if you have a hard primer.

With these two installed the trigger feels noticeably better. A bit lighter, but what’s more important more predictable and with a shorter trigger reset. At least that’s the way I feel it.

If you’re not too happy with your Glock trigger give it a try. Keep in mind, ZEV does say *ZEV Technologies recommends this for competition use ONLY* so check your CCW laws and requirements before making the modification.

FerFAL

Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre is the author of “The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse” and “Bugging Out and Relocating: When Staying is not an Option”.

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