I am pretty new to Glocks and have started competing in GSSF indoor matches. Bought a G17 Gen 3 and it had the stiffest trigger I have ever felt in a striker fired gun. Measured it at 8.4 pounds so I bought an OEM minus trigger connector and spring, and in the process of installing it I found the NYPD trigger spring. Now I have a 3.2lb trigger much much better.

Apparently there were two variations, the olive green one which gave you an 8lb trigger and an orange one that gave you a 12lb trigger. Starting to make sense now why they seemed to hit more bystanders than the actual target.

I shot one match with that trigger and it was a 459/500. Can not wait to try it out now.

1st step in correcting the trigger pull on a Glock is having the correct trigger bar in place.
You can google "25 cent Trigger job " for a Glock on how to polish the contact surfaces.

Yeah NYPD and NYSP had some pretty wacky ideas back in the day. I always compared it to the concept of making cars harder for sober drivers to drive in order to cut down on drunk driving.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Yeah NYPD and NYSP had some pretty wacky ideas back in the day. I always compared it to the concept of making cars harder for sober drivers to drive in order to cut down on drunk driving.

That is a great analogy.

Year past I bought two retiree NYPD G19. $225 $275 respectively. They immediately got swapped out before I ever fired them.

FWIW the horrible NY+ trigger is no more.

For years I shot my G19 with the NY1 and the "minus" connector. Wasn't heavier than the factory set-up but I just changed the pull and reset characteristics. Once you got use to it, I never gave it a second thought.

Later I went for the Apex and OW triggers and I like those better than what I had but overall, no real in-depth complaints about NY1 and the minus connector