danmdevries wrote:Somewhat.
I've done trigger jobs on a few smiths and rugers. While you can reduce the spring strength and smooth the action, you still need to retain enough spring for reliable ignition, and can't get away from the trigger pull needing to index and lock the cylinder while it is pulling the hammer back.
You can smooth it out, and reduce it slightly, but can't reduce the weight required to pull by very much. You can just make it smoother.
I owned several guns through out the years and burned my share of gun powder in the day but I have never ventured into doing any internal mods my self. Main reason is that I wanted the firearm to work after the mod was completed.
Picked up a S&W 638 a couple of years ago from my youngest cub. It was one that his wife was carrying in her purse and beating it to hell and back. As a result he decided to get her something else.
When I first got the pistol it had the strongest trigger pull of any that I ever remember shooting. Took it to a local gunsmith and had it checked. Trigger pull was 11 lbs and I wanted it down to 4 or 4.5. When finished it checked in at 6 lbs, not what I wanted but a lot better. Guess some of what you said above came into play in this case.