What Kind of Trigger is This?

Gold Cup.

 

I have one too. Took it out of my first 1911.

 

+1 for Gold Cup

 

Another vote for the Gold Cup or rather the trigger that was in Gold Cups from 1957 to 1996 but it looks all black which is sort of interesting.

 

Yea, I saw that. Mine came out of the pistol with brushed flats on the sides. I polished it up a bit and now keep it on the bench as a memento.

Now I wish I still had that pistol...

 

Here's a teaser for you older guys. This part goes into a GC/NM and on the sear pin. What was it for?

 

It is to stop trigger bounce.

 

I honestly don't remember. It held captive a spring that went into a pocket on the sear. I 'thought' it was for sear preload, but my memory is so bad I honestly don't know, and thought one of you guys might remember.

 

Steel trigger was heavy. That piece and spring stopped mutli firings.

 

To supposedly prevent trigger bounce.. Don't know if I am considered an oldster yet, but already had a run in with these lmbo.. So, I knew exactly what it was for haha..

 

I take it that it didn't work too well?

IIRC, I ditched mine for a aluminum trigger and saved a pound or two.

 

Not sure they ever worked on a trigger less than 5 lbs. lol.. The polymer trigger was trick number 2 right?,, and in addition to the piece you posted a tiny little spring yes?

 

Yup, spring fit into a pocket on the sear.

 

Smallest spring I have ever seen in a gun.
Would be more at home in a wristwatch!

"That piece and spring stopped mutli firings."
Well no, but it did prevent a fall to half-cock induced by
inertia of the HEAVY trigger.

 

It's funny cause their new series 80s guns still have that little nitch cut into the sear.. haha, either they decided to never change that or they made a bazzilion of them lol. At least the last Gold Cup I worked on did and it was a newer model. Got to wonder how many cussings that little spring got when someone who didn't know it was there or even if they did and it went flying across the room lol.

 

OK, this makes sense. I wanted to say it kept the sear pre-loaded (wrong word?) to prevent sear bounce, but I honestly don't remember what I was told way back then.

I DO remember going to Bob's right after I detail stripped my GC for the first time. That darn little spring flew right out of the pistol and I never did find it.