First range report

[maturin]

Okay, so I got a three-hour pass on Monday, which I used to go to the range. First shot, single action at 7ish yards -- in the 10 ring. Very excited, but the next shot after decock -- low and left. Okay, rest of magazine, large ragged hole with a few fliers between 7:00 and 8:00 o'clock a little bewlow the bull. Backed out to end of indoor range, shot way low, (but in line), adjusted point of aim to cutting bull with front sight, brought POI back up. Tried a few double-taps, groups not real tight. End of first box.

Switched to .45, practiced double-taps, concentrated on both eyes open -- something I've decided to do exclusively, rather late.

Second box of 9mm  -- the serrated trigger began to wear on my trigger finger. double taps at 7ish yards, double-action only at further range, not too tight. Trigger finger really raw. Tried quick-view double-taps -- all over the target, like I hadn't seen since I was 17 firing the .45 for the first time in boot camp. I almost expected getting a talking to.... Final few rounds were slow fire, and groups tightened up again so i didn't have to leave completely humiliated.

Anyway, no failures whatsoever. I'm pretty pleased overall, but the serrated trigger does chew up the trigger finger. I'll have to think hard about that. As I said in my initial impressions post, I like the idea of the serrated trigger in high-stress situations, but my accuracy deteriorated rapidly as is wore on my finger. I don't want to get bad trigger-pull habits b/c of the discomfort, so I'll have to figure out how to deal with it -- perhaps a combination of band-aids until healed, toughening up through dry firing, then reapplying band-aid when necessary until calluses develop.

Any pointers welcomed. And no, no pics. I didn't have a camera with me.

[armoredman]

Yes, some have had issues with the serrated trigger - I have had it start to wear with long range sessions, so I will switch to the P01 or P07, or vz-58, take a break from it. You can have a smooth trigger installed, some here have had CZ85 triggers put in, or maybe a P01 trigger, contact czcustom.com, best shop to do it at that I know.
Once you start to get a sore finger, your body isn't going to be real happy trying to concentrate with good groups, so give it another shot, and let us know how it goes.

[Wiley]

Could the trigger serrations be buffed down some how, like with a Dremel, without removing it?

[maturin]

Hey Wiley (that sounds strangely familiar to me -- my wife's dog's name  )

Someone here did dremel down a PCR trigger -- I could probably find you the post but am too busy right now to the search -- but I don't know enough about dremeling to know how fine a control one can have with it.

FYI -- after letting my finger rest and heal for a couple of days, I started dry firing again -- without any discomfort. So I'm thinking that I'll just suck it up for the 50/100 round range days 'cause I really like the extra grip with the serrations. I have sweaty hands on the best of days (though not so much since moving to semi-arid CO from NOLA), so I can't imagine what they'd be like under stress.

[Onegoodshot]

I didn't Dremel my trigger, but I did take some emery cloth and made a few passes on the edges. After it came back from Robar Guns, the NP3 seemed to finish the job.

[Ross7]

I'm having some trigger work done now on my PCR and I asked the 'smith to also smooth out the serrations on the trigger. I haven't had a problem with the serrations chewing up my trigger finger, I simply prefer a smooth trigger surface.