Virginia Premier Pistol Gunsmithing
Pistol Services
Personal Defense
- Trigger enhancements
- Deburring engagement angles for a crisp, consistent break
- Replacing hammer or striker springs
- Sight upgrades
- Updating from standard sights to night sights or high-vision fiber optics
Competition
- Full trigger polishing and stoning
- Stoning engagement angles for a crisp, consistent break
- Polishing trigger bars for a smoother pull and faster reset
- Spring replacement for a lighter trigger and faster reset
- Oversize mag wells
- Flaring mag well for a wider magazine port and faster, easier insertion
- Extended mag release
- For faster acquisition of the magazine release
- Match barrel fitting
- Replacing factory barrel with a match barrel, hand-fitted to slide and frame
- Slide modifications
- Milling forward cocking serrations
- Milling grooves in the slide to reduce weight for faster ejection and reloading
- Cutting slides for aftermarket RMR (red dot) sights
1911
- Full trigger enhancements
- Replacing factory plastic triggers with aluminum competition triggers, hand-fitted to frame
- Polishing the trigger bar and frame to enhance pre-creep
- Setting the trigger for little to no overtravel
- Hand-stoning sear and hammer engagement angles for a matched set
- Polishing disconnector; deburring sear and hammer pin holes
- Replacing mainspring housing with a competition spring
- Tuning trigger spring for a lighter trigger
- Hand-fitted barrel bushings
- Fit barrel bushing to frame to 0.001-inch clearance between bushing and barrel
- Beavertail safety custom fitting
- Hand-filing and sanding the frame so a beavertail grip safety replaces the factory safety
- Ejection ports opened up
- Milling the ejection port 0.005 inches deeper and beveling the back of the port so spent cases clear cleanly
- Forward slide serrations
- Milling front slide serrations for cocking from the front as well as the rear, and for chamber checks
- Front sight dovetails
- Milling a dovetail so aftermarket front sights can be installed instead of a staked front sight

