Both Colts with factory triggers.
I have shot some ARs with aftermarket triggers but I confess, all I've really known is factory mil spec triggers in mine.
What am I getting into? Need special tools?

As easy/hard as taking the fire control parts out and putting new ones in. Have you done that?


Some after market triggers can need really small allen wrenches to install, but I've never seen one that didn't come with them.

Just installed a Larue in mine. Very easy to do.

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As easy/hard as taking the fire control parts out and putting new ones in. Have you done that?


Some after market triggers can need really small allen wrenches to install, but I've never seen one that didn't come with them.

I have never changed a trigger on any firearm.
I'm somewhat mechanically inclined but I have 0 experience with rifles.

Then my suggestion would be hit Youtube and watch some videos on assembling lowers.

Not terribly difficult and possibly one of the easiest guns there is to do it on.

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Originally posted by cas:
Then my suggestion would be hit Youtube and watch some videos on assembling lowers.

Not terribly difficult and possibly one of the easiest guns there is to do it on.

Sounds like a plan. Thank you.

Practice make perfect, no better time to learn.
Not terribly hard but can be a pesky task.
You can do it!

Just make sure to put the springs in the proper orientation when installing the new one.

Yes, watch a few videos, you’ll be fine. Just go slow, hard to do any damage.

Many of the new triggers are even easier, they are often completely assembled, no loose springs to put in place or anything.

The last two I put I were ‘Velocity Triggers’ simple ‘drop in’, 2 pins.

https://velocitytriggers.com/p...c-ar-trigger-curved/

Often for me, 3-3.5 lbs is about where I like to be for the range, hunting, & even prairie dogging I can get by.

Watched a few videos, doesn't seem to hard. Some used an AR block to punch out pins and some did it on their kitchen table.
Pretty sure I can do it.
Thanks for all the replies.

The trigger is a piece of cake. The hammer can be a bit harder.

No need for a block for this task. Just use a roll of tape.

The real magic trick is getting a slave pin. Makes the task absurdly simple and not at all fiddly.

As said, just make sure your springs are correctly oriented.

super easy (and i am not overly mechanically inclined)

great videos on youtube to coach you through

from Midway / Brownells, etc

(just do in where you be sure not to lose any small pieces...)

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I replaced the trigger on my SCAR 17 and had never done that type of mod before in any rifle. Watched the video's on YouTube and gave myself plenty of time to finish the job.

Plan B, if unsuccessful, was to take the lower and trigger parts to my local Gunsmith in a baggie and claim my usual gun incompetence and pay the Piper to fix it.

On a scale of 1-10 of hardness, I'd give it a 2. The first time can be tricky lining things up, but you'll get it after cursing Stoner a time or 2.

It's pretty easy, but requires some 'technique', though the learned dexterity from doing your first one will make doing the second one a lot easier.

I recommend watching the Bill Geissele video(s) as he really breaks down the process very well. When I did my first one I watched the videos on a tablet (twice). I kept that tablet right there with during the install and replayed certain segments as I felt necessary while I proceeded.

SSA Install - Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTHUqjxLqns
SSA Install - Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5eWOwRzDI
SSA Install - Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY5ns6FM0ME

Depends on which trigger you get. Some of the cassette style self contained triggers are very very easy.

Some of the others are a little more difficult. None of them should present a problem if you are the least bit mechanically inclined. Almost every manufacturer has good instructions up to and including (usually) a video on how to install their particular trigger.

If you've never done it before, I would definitely try one of the self-contained units that are pretty much drop-in after you knock the two pins out. Otherwise, depending on manufacturer, you got to deal with getting the trigger spring and sometimes even the disconnector and disconnector spring all configured correctly.

you need a punch. and it really helps to have a slave pin, but a smaller punch works almost as well. Self test... can you dissemble a firearm? Can you fix anything mechanical? If yes then you are GTG. There is literally nothing you can do on this that hurts anything, so if you screw it up like not getting the springs right, you just take it apart, study a bit more and do it again.

For what it’s worth, I’ve seen the pins walk out at the range probably ten times in home built AR15’s. And every single one of them was because they installed the hammer spring backwards.

I have never seen the pins walk with a proper hammer spring installation.

MAKE sure the hammer spring is installed correctly.