Ruger SP101 32 HnR Mag

[bula]

One recently here. Action crunchy, trigger pull heavy. Wolf trigger spring or kit n action job ? Opinions wanted. Do not want to add big bucks to this gun. 

[AxeHandle]

I'd pull the innards out, clean and oil them, and then shoot the wheels off of it. Most likely you've just been spending too much time with 50+ year old S&W revolvers.

[potatojudge]

Those triggers are easy to clean up at home. Try that, then decide if spring swapping or trigger/hammer shims are worth it. I've had very good luck getting SP101 actions where I wanted them. Still a notch below a good S&W trigger, but very shootable.

[jeffh]

I agree with both of the preceding suggestions, and in the order they were offered.

Since the Rugers are so easy to take apart and put back together, you never have to toil over the decision to "do it while I'm in here" because getting back "in there" is so easy.

I have found more loose scrap metal inside of new Ruger DAs than in any other kind of gun, so a thorough cleaning and inspection will reveal all the most obvious things to dredge out of there.

[bushog]

I had one David Clements worked on. Sold it…

[bigbore5]

My 357 4.2" was horrible. Took it apart and cleaned all the shavings out, dressed up the rough machine marks on hammer sides, installed Wolf spring kit, properly lubed. Now it is better than the Missus' 642 Ladysmith or my M60 we bought last year. Took about an hour to do. Really don't want to take those apart. I hate working on Smiths.

[tdbarton]

Aug 2, 2022 20:52:11 GMT -5 bigbore5 said:

My 357 4.2" was horrible. Took it apart and cleaned all the shavings out, dressed up the rough machine marks on hammer sides, installed Wolf spring kit, properly lubed. Now it is better than the Missus' 642 Ladysmith or my M60 we bought last year. Took about an hour to do. Really don't want to take those apart. I hate working on Smiths.

Similar experience with my 4.2” .357. Full disassembly and polishing of contact points. A particular area of note was the hole the trigger rebound spring sits in. It was full of burrs and chatter. I lapped those out, polished contacts points, and played with mainspring/trigger return spring weight until 100% ignition and trigger return were achieved with the lightest springs. Pretty smooth trigger after that - though I will say the trigger group came in and out of the revolver maybe a dozen times in the process.

[bula]

Thank You guys ! 

[contender]

I too will echo the sentiments that a good disassembly followed by cleaning up the action can do wonders for a Ruger SP-101.