Borrow a Pull Gauge

[NightCat]

Anybody in the Colorado Springs area have a Trigger Pull Weight Gauge I can borrow for a few tests on my M&P?

Thanks!

- Dave

[james_bond_007]

If you can't find one, here's a method I used that worked pretty well.
I have a small digital scale (maybe goes to 8 or 10 lbs), for measuring food portions. It cost under $20. It is accurate to a few grams. It can switch between metric and ounces.
Tie a string around an empty milk jug handle. Tie a piece of a coat hanger (with the hook) to the end of the string.
Hang the jug on your trigger. (Or instead of a coat hanger, loop another piece of string around the trigger and tie to the jug).

Take a pitcher of water and fill the jug slowly until the trigger breaks.
Weigh the jug/string/hanger.

Empty the jug, repeat and average the measurements.
Make sure the measurements are consistently close.
Since the grams gave me better resolution ( 1 gram versus 1/8 ounce) , I recorded grams and then converted to ounces.

This works well. I later compared my measurement to a friend's trigger gauge and the measurements differed by only 1/10 ounce.
I can't say that either measurement was off, but both were probably not calibrated to the same reference.

I know the scale is accurate, as when I was rolling quarters, I weighed the rolls. I could easily tell when I was + or - 1 quarter/roll.

Let me know what you think.

[NightCat]

Saw a Similar DIY video on YouTube...haven't decided to take the time to do it and am currently content with the "finger gauge" at 3-3.5lbs.

I'll eventually put it on an actual gauge.

[james_bond_007]

Interesting that you found a video.

I came up with this method about 15-20 years ago.
I have posted it to other forums.

I don't claim to be the "inventor" of this.
I can't say that no one else came up with it before that time; just that I devised it independently with materials I had on hand.