[Pontifex]

I wanted to use a flat trigger for my 1911 build but the gunsmith said the one I got - Wilson Combat - wouldn't work. I forget the exact reasoning, but it had something to do with the size of the trigger (I think the bow specifically).

This is the Wilson trigger - http://www.brownells.com/handgun-pa...t-match-trigger-sku965000064-26350-51737.aspx

I see that 10-8 makes one also - http://www.brownells.com/handgun-pa...-8-flat-trigger-sku100003159-24702-50876.aspx

As you can see, the bows are definitely different and maybe that difference is what caused the problem. I'd have to talk to the smith again to confirm.

I'm wondering if anyone has run into this before and conform whether the 10-8 trigger works better? Does anyone else make a flat trigger that works well?

 

[Pontifex]

Reading the comments on the Wilson Combat site it seems that trigger went into all kinds of 1911 like RIA's, Springfields, Sigs, R1s, Taurus', etc. What kind of gun are you fitting it to?

I would be interested in an expert answer as well as that trigger looks sweet!

Not a commercially manufactured 1911 - totally custom build with a bare Foster frame.

 

[Pontifex]

I know it needs fitted but he wasn't able to fit it. It had something to do with the size of something on the trigger, I just can't remember what now. The frame was a bit out of spec also, so that might have had some part of it as well.

 

[Pontifex]

Is the Foster frame a wide body/double stack or a single stack which is what the trigger is made for?

single stack.

The build was completed a few months ago, btw, and he used a 2nd trigger i had in the parts box. It was a standard skeletonized curved trigger. I don't know which mfgr it was though. I think it was a spare that my uncle had - probably Brown or Wilson as he had a bunch of their parts