I have always loved my Sigs but there are things about them that definitely can be improved. One upgrade that I got excited about recently was an after market trigger upgrade.

Conclusion

Let me cut to the chase. For an expensive gun this is the best $79 bucks you will ever spend.

Company and Product


Armory Craft is a small company out of Florida I think. So far I have had nothing but good to say about them and their service. If you call, you will talk to a person even if it means the owner calling you back personally. He called me so I know.

They make several after market adjustable triggers for several models of Sig guns and they have a bunch of cool stuff for CZ as well. The trigger(s) I am talking about here fit the P22- series and I think a few others. I also got a trigger for a P938 but I will talk about that one later. As for this install it went on my P226.

Installation

In brief it was EASY. I was almost able to do the whole install without tools. The only tools that I did use were a small flat head screwdriver (although even this might not be needed) and a narrow metal finger nail file. If you have a set of fine files that are narrow and fine enough that will work too. I recommend watching the youtube videos if you want to install one.

Initially I thought 'FILE?! I am NOT filing on my gun!' but don't worry. It's not a big deal and files never touch your gun. There are a couple of youtube videos out there about how to install these triggers so I won't go into detail. The only part I want to include about installation is that there is a small rubber/plastic pin pressed into the top of front of the trigger. This part is inside the frame of the gun just inside the trigger hole in the frame. That pin is what gets filed so that it becomes custom to your gun.

(In the picture below the red circle is around that pin that gets filed down. If you screw it up and over file it you can send it back and they will press a new pin into it)

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The factory trigger


The factory trigger to me was really spongy and the reset wasn't that good even though it already had SRT. It would get an "OK' from me but not a 'wow this is awesome'. The Armory Craft though makes me feel like I have a whole new gun. Definitely good stuff. Armory Craft makes awesome Sigs even more awesome by exploiting and overcoming a small design flaw/weakness of a small but most significant part.

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(In the pic the top left is the factory trigger. Top right is Armory Craft slightly curved trigger. In the gun is the flat trigger. Overall for my purposes the flat trigger wins. The feel and function is just fantastic. The curved trigger has the exact same function just a different contour. I bought both.)

What you gain


Once the trigger is adjusted correctly in double action there is almost NO play in the trigger at all. Front to back or side to side there is almost none. There might be 1mm of take up in double action but that is from the internals of the gun. When you pull the trigger the hammer moves.

On the face of the trigger you have the over travel screw. My gun has SRT in it but this trigger enhances that quite a bit. There is again almost no over travel and the reset is very short. In single action there is your natural take up from the internals of the gun, but like I said the SRT is greatly enhanced. You can get on follow up shots substantially better and faster.

The best word for me to use to describe the action now is 'crispy'.

Final thoughts

Is the trigger worth it? Every penny. It helps me at least to learn much better trigger control. The gun talks back to you way more. If you're slapping the trigger or not following the capabilities of the gun you will know. With the factory trigger to me it was too mushy to really tell what I was doing. This trigger makes my gun much more responsive.

I don't want to go so far as to say this trigger makes me a better shooter, but it does put the right tool in my hand to be much more aware of what I am doing right or wrong. It definitely promotes way better trigger control. Because the trigger is so crispy it helps me to segment out different parts of proper shooting technique such as trigger control, recoil management, etc.

If I pull a shot I know that was all me. If I slap the trigger I know. If I get out of rhythm with the gun and the reset I will know. Just having the capability to be aware of those things allows me to focus on other things like recoil management or other fundamentals that actually will make me a better and faster shooter.

Thanks for reading. Ask any questions below.