Gunsmith - Remove the serrations from S&W revolver trigger

Removing the serrations from the trigger face on a Smith and Wesson revolver can improve the feel and trigger pull when shooting the gun in double action. Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, walks through this process using only a rotary tool. Starting with a coarse grinding wheel, the bulk of the serrations are removed. This is followed by polishing with a sanding drum and consecutively finer polishing bits. Once the surface has been polished, finish the metal with a little cold blue.

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• MidwayUSA
• Larry
• Potterfield
• gunsmith
• shooting
• gun
• firearm
• guntec
• handgun
• Smith-Wesson
• revolver
• action-job

[JamaicaGR10]

I really like this guy.

[TJ41238]

i have still yet to watch a larry potterfield video when he was misleading anybody and just flat out wasnt worth watching larry ur awsome

[peterm3964]

Larry is the Gunnys wise and gentle brother .

[The45Shooter]

Skip the cold blue. I have done many triggers like this. I polish to mirror though. I go through several grits of emery cloth then move on to a polishing bob on the Dremmel and then on to Flitz. They all turn out great!

[kw351slr]

While you have the trigger out you should also round the edges which will aid in d/a shooting. And please don't use cold blue.

[BigAgitator]

@dozzy000 how could it? guns vary so much from one model to another.

[Rynnakkokivaari76]

@shem1911 I have in the time since bought an extra trigger for my S&W M17-2 that I polished up until it was a mirror. I now use it all the time over the serrated trigger. It lacks a finish but I have access to lots of potassium nitrate so I am gonna nitre blue it.q

[shem1911]

@Rynnakkokivaari76 Yes and no. If you are like me and shoot 150-200 rounds every session, then removing the serrations are almost necessary. They tend to bite into your finger and can actually hurt after a while. Plus they hold in sweat, lint, dirt, just about anything that will fit in there. A smooth faced trigger corrects all of the above. I have an old model 10 from the late 40's with this trigger. It has a 12lb trigger pull and after about an hour of shooting my finger is red and raw feeling

[zanuha]

@G4031rdclip

That was suspicious.

[G4031rdclip]

well the serrations work good at distorting trigger finger prints so ill keep mine

[jcole60brit]

"Start by disassembling the gun, then remove the trigger." It's not a video on how to disassemble the revolver, It's a video on removing the serrations from the trigger.