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First, remember that CZ makes a single action version of the CZ-75, and it's very nice. For a single action CZ 75 the trigger is far superior to a Hi Power. For a double action CZ-75 the single action trigger is better than an out of the box HP. If you were to remove the HP magazine disconnect, then the HP would typically (like you said, each gun is a law unto itself) the HP would have the better trigger.

To understand how the magazine disconnect complicates the trigger, you have to understand how the magazine disconnect works. The mag disconnect is actually installed in the trigger and there’s a spring and plunger in the trigger. The magazine disconnect bears against an inserted magazine so you have the spring pressure from the trigger return spring AND the built up spring pressure from the coil spring of the magazine disconnect.

The HP’s trigger with a magazine disconnect really isn’t “bad” per-se, just very unconventional for a handgun trigger. The HP’s trigger is much like a two stage trigger found on an old military Mauser rifle with a steady take up, followed by a crisp let off as the second stage. I’ve never had any trouble at all wringing good performance out of the stock trigger in a HP and find it preferable to most DA or trigger cocking handguns.

A gunsmith who really knows his Hi Power’s can get a truly excellent trigger with the magazine disconnect installed, but it’s quite a bit of work. Most just find it easier to just lose the mag disconnect and install the C&S hammer & sear, along with reducing the mainspring weight. Some may choose to mess with the sear spring, but this is a big mistake as the sear spring is not the greatest design to begin with on the Hi Power (for more on that, read my piece on ShootersJournal.net on the Hi Power), so I don’t recommend messing with the sear spring at all. Besides, after removal of the magazine disconnect and swapping the sear & hammer (then fine tuning the two), and reducing the mainspring; you have a trigger that’s pretty damn light. Any additional advantage a reduced sear spring would give you just isn’t worth it in my book.

With the magazine disconnect, I’ve found that Bill Laughridge’s replacement trigger bar is the best way. Unfortunately it requires one to drill another hole in the slide, but it changes the leverage from the trigger and really makes for a downright first rate trigger. This should be accompanied by some reworking of the magazine disconnect as well. Reworking the magazine disconnect can get a bit involved, depending on how re-worked you want to get. If you want factory magazines to fall free, there’s work on the spring, as well as reshaping and polishing of the magazine disconnect.

If I were to purchase a new one, which should I buy and who should I send it to?

If I wasnt so cheap, I would have
used Bill's sear too...o well, Ill just have the factory one recut once more before I swap it out..

WildloveshpsAlaska ��2002-2011

Tom;

I actually did read the entire article, as I'm a bit of a Hemingway fan, and I wanted to get the quote right (I've seen several variations). However one may agree or disagree with his sentiments, he does have a gritty prose style that gets his point across. His book on bullfighting actually explained a lot about the event that I'd never heard of.

One of his biographers spoke of a hereditary blood disorder he had inherited that possibly led to his suicide. A shame, especially when contrasted with the fates of his heroes (Robert Jordan, for one).

Doubletap: Warum Sie mich hassen? Wir kennen uns nicht.

No, just commenting on your post about having been visited by a hacker.

Just pondering who might be able to do that. And, why?

Gives one pause.

Dan

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