{"id":9463,"date":"2026-11-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:11:42","slug":"some-wise-advice-on-1911-trigger-pulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/some-wise-advice-on-1911-trigger-pulls\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME WISE ADVICE ON 1911 TRIGGER PULLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite stops on YouTube is Nelson Ford\u2019s The Gunsmith series. As a collector of old Colts and Smith &amp; Wessons, I never tire of his \u201cinside baseball\u201d education on the inner workings of classic handguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s done videos where he talks about getting trigger pulls on 1911-style semiautomatics down into the three-pound range, which is fine for target pistols. However, that\u2019s a range that brings you into \u201chair trigger\u201d territory, which can carry some serious liability with it if the gun in question is used in high stress situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve long recommended going no lower than four pounds on the 1911 style pistol used for serious self-defense, and my own 1911 defense guns are mostly in the 4-5 pound range, a few a little heavier. Anything lighter I reserve for dedicated target pistols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m happy to note that Nelson Ford seems to agree. Catch the first minute and a quarter of one of his videos, here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nelson Ford Answers Comments\/Questions, Trigger Weight on Carry 1911&amp;apos;s, MIM Parts, S&amp;W Long Actions\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJDEyvZ3ccE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UJDEyvZ3ccE?si=gW54vhKV1pD7MYoh\">video here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite stops on YouTube is Nelson Ford\u2019s The Gunsmith series. As a collector of old Colts and Smith &amp; Wessons, I never tire of his \u201cinside baseball\u201d education on the inner workings of classic handguns. He&#8217;s done videos where he talks about getting trigger pulls on 1911-style semiautomatics down into the three-pound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}