Gun Digest's CCW Revolver Customization Concealed Carry eShort by Grant Cunningham

Author:Grant Cunningham [Cunningham, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3402-6
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-07-17T21:00:00+00:00

For utmost comfort, back side of trigger should have edges relieved and polished.

Customizing for physical limitations

Those whose hands are not of average size or strength often have trouble working with a double action revolver. Trigger reach can be excessive, and the heavy triggers can be challenging to master. Luckily there are some modifications (and combinations of modifications) that can make life with the wheelgun just a bit easier.

If someone has very small hands, the first order of business is to pick grips that do not cover the backstrap. This will shorten the grip-to-trigger reach, but keep in mind they will also magnify the perceived recoil. It’s sometimes a difficult trade to make as many folks with short fingers don’t have a lot of padding on their palms to help cushion the recoil. Having custom grips made that taper toward the front, or are thinner overall, will also reduce the reach a small amount. If that’s still not enough, the best recommendation may be to acquire a different gun.

With shorter or less muscular hands, it’s important that the first joint of the trigger finger get as close to the centerline of the trigger as possible. This gives the best leverage and helps avoid the steering effect of having the finger push the trigger to the side. Narrowing the trigger helps, and combining that with rounding the trigger face dramatically to the sides will give a little extra reach as well.

For those with fingers that are not terribly muscular, or those who may suffer from joint deterioration, doing some work on the action with an eye toward light trigger weight will help dramatically. It’s not unusual to be able to cut trigger weight from 13 or 14 pounds down to nine or 10. That is a dramatic difference, and I’ve found is generally sufficient for all but the worst cases.

Reducing the overall trigger weight is of course a tremendous benefit in these cases, but caution must be observed when the gun is to be used for personal protection. If the trigger weight is reduced substantially, extensive testing must be done to ensure complete reliability with common commercially available ammunition.

Guns with the camel hump trigger travel are especially difficult for some shooters to handle. Regardless of overall trigger weight, I’ve noticed time and again that shooters of all abilities rank revolvers with this problem as harder to shoot. I recently reviewed a new revolver for a gun magazine, a gun that had a very severe hump in the middle of the trigger travel. A group of a half-dozen seasoned shooters, most of them instructors, all told me that the trigger weight was 50 percent higher than it really was. They all rated it as a very difficult gun to shoot because of the action. If a revolver has a non-linear trigger, I believe big gains can be made simply by correcting that deficiency (if possible.)

Finally, it would be irresponsible of me not to point out that shooters with physical limitations are not always well served by the revolver.

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