I want to get off MR. BILL'S WILD RIDE
I purchased this trigger for my Arsenal SLR107-51, and for the first time in four AK pattern firearms encountered fitment issues immediately upon beginning the installation. In this case the disconnector stop rivet was rubbing on the body of the trigger, which is a possibility noted by the instructions, and while it is a little presumptuous of ALG to expect the user to modify a rifle to fit their trigger instead of the other way around, I did end up lightly filing the side of this rivet to permit the trigger - which I ultimately needed to file also - to rock freely per the instructions. Once the trigger rocked freely, I installed the safety lever and noticed gross travel in the trigger when it was in the safe position - enter the fitment roll pin. I don't engineer triggers for a living, perhaps for good reason, but a pin that should sit at a fixed depth and only be able to enter or exit its channel from one end seems like an excellent use case for a taper pin. Instead, an oversized roll pin must be driven into a device with no apparent hope of being chocked firmly in a vise. With the roll pin driven in and filed to fit, the trigger now rocked freely in the receiver and was held firm by the safety lever in the safe position as prescribed. Reassembling the fire control group (without the use of a slave pin or bore sleeve - not necessary but would have been a nice touch given Tapco can include one for $20 less), the final result was a good but certainly not remarkable trigger. It is definitely a better trigger than the Tapco FCG - the travel is shorter, and the break is more definite, but the reset feels grimy, which could improve with time and cleaning but as of now is nothing special. While the inconvenience of this amount of fitment is forgivable given the variance in AK dimensions, the tolerances this trigger operate in - many of which are dependent on fitment by the end user - do not inspire confidence that this product will perform safely and remain as assembled as the device it is installed in (a black metal tube of explosions that sits in the sun for hours at a time) is used and experiences cycles of thermal expansion and contraction. The bottom line: it is a better trigger than the Tapco, but not superior enough to justify the price premium, and definitely not superior enough to justify the excessive fitment. Feeling it side by side with the G2 in my SLR101s, there is no doubt I will save my time and money in the future and purchase Tapco triggers for any new AKs.
Very Bad Fitment On Multiple AKs
Did not fit my Arsenal AKs, I.O. AK, or Mini Draco 92 Pap. Trigger needs to filled down to allow bolt carrier to properly pass over trigger assembly and I was not going to hand file and refinish this trigger. Do ALOT of research online before buying this kit and attempting to install it in your AK. ALG was nil on support and all they could answer is that it fits "most" AKs. Not recommended. Get Tapco has about the same fit, finish and feel. Don't buy the hype of their "curved" trigger face. I own quite a few ALG products including their 6 second Glock mount and this is not on the same level of quality that ALG is know for.
