I have used the Ghost Inc. Edge connector in two different gen 4 glocks, a 26 and a 19.
Both times, the edge connector came highly polished and very well machined. It performs as advertised in greatly reducing the hump at the end of the trigger pull. It’s also a slightly lighter pull than the standard minus connector and it has a superior reset to the minus connector. Reset is just as good as the dot connector that came in the guns.
I have been struck by the smoothness of the overall trigger pull as well.
My glock creds: over 15,000 rounds through various glocks in bone stock condition…mostly through my old issued gen 3 G21 (recently replaced by my agency with a gen 4 G21). I shoot well with anything but the extra heavy new York trigger.
I have no intention of touting my own abilities, but it’s important to know that I’m not attempting to obtain a hardware remedy for a software problem (poor fundamentals).
In the real world, I can sustain a reasonably high rate of fire while standing, on a std silhouette target at 50 meters using the edge connector over a dot or a minus connector.
I’ve got over 2000 rounds on two edge connectors in the two above mentioned glocks.
The one I dropped in my Gen 3 19 failed to reset three times over 500 rounds with all factory spring weights. Given that is my daily carry pistol, I swapped back to the OEM connector.
The feel on the take up is nice, that’s for sure. Maybe I just got a lemon.
Could be your factory trigger bar. I work for a large agency and we had that issue with some gen 3 trigger bars having a slightly rounded edge, possibly from improper heat treat (also saw some gouging on the safety plunger depressor). They failed with factory connectors, but only every so often.
I honestly think I have a slightly out of spec connector. I’ll pull the trigger bar this weekend and do a side by side with a new one I have laying around.
That pistol has a little over 3k through it after swapping back to the OEM connector and I haven’t had any issues since. I’ll drop the Edge in another pistol soon and see if it works any better.
I’ve heard tons of guys are happy with these, just throwing it out there.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility the edge connector is out of spec. I was just throwing that scenario out there. We were blaming deputies for stuff that truly wasn’t their fault.
You mind posting in this thread what you find? You got me curious now.
Do not know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I have had issues with Ghost connectors in gen4 glocks. Specifically gen4 labeled connectors, I had an issue with in my gen4’s.
I was specifically referring to the ghost ranger setup, but from what I have seen from friends who run after market triggers, the ghost setups are a no go for reliability.
Well, I have dozens of buddies who specifically use the ranger 4.5 connectors and have, collectively, 20,000 rounds through these connectors. The only reason one could have a reset issue is improperly balanced spring weights between the striker and trigger springs.
I have used ranger 4.5 and edge 3.5 and never had an issue. I did, however, replicate the trigger safety bow issue noted in that blog when i used a 6 lb trigger spring and a 4 lb striker spring…but that was with a factory dot connector.
ETA - I was typing and didn’t see Buford’s response. Very similar experience.
Just one guy, but my experience is as follows -
Ghost Rockets
Ghost Edges
Ghost Evo Elites
Probably 35k+ rounds combined in Gen 3 & 4, 19s and 17s over the past several years. I have never had an issue related to the connectors. Not one. I’ve really never had any issues at all, connector or otherwise - boringly reliable.
I’ve put a half dozen in for friends and never see a problem with theirs either.
Did the gentleman with the blog have “competition” springs installed?
That being said, the only time reset seemed marginal with mine was when I put a light striker spring in a USPSA gun. Didn’t like it and stuck with Ghost connectors and extra power trigger springs only.
An Improper angle on the connector can also induce reset issues. That can happen with any connector - including Glock OEM.
Gotcha. Maybe very slightly. But both required quite a bit of force and a pin punch to swap out. I worked in a glock once whee you could pull the connector out with your fingernails, but that was because it had seen more connector swaps than Doctor Who.
I had a very similar issue as I posted about in two different guns. a good friend began to have NDs at the range because the connector wore out in a particular spot. So we dumped them completely. Between the two of us we have over 100k through three glocks, he ran his g17 with ranger connector for about 7k and it gave him issues.
Polished dot or minorminominus connector seem to be best bang for buck.
That still may not be a connector issue. Trigger bars as they come from glock area typically very rough and it is routine for them to gouge connectors in our agency guns (we are 1700+ sworn). But, the glock connector has a nickel plating on their factory connector and trigger bar and this reacts differently to the jagged edge on a trigger bar than the surface of, say, a ghost or vanek highly polished connector.
I have never seen an issue as you describe as long as the rough edges on the trigger bar have been knocked down to a true 90 degree angle.
Gouged connectors are commonplace in high round count glocks at my agency, but the surface treatments allow them to have pretty flawed interfacing surfaces and still function.
As for having an ND, that’s virtually Unpossible to have solely based on a connector. Unless you mean that the striker was released too early in the trigger pull.
My agency either. Bone stock guns. Each of which gets at LEAST 1k rounds per year (with several hundred being frang). And that’s for deputies that don’t use their monthly practice allotment. Specialty teams typically top 12k per year per gun.
A true shot triggered by reset can only be caused by inadequate sear engagement. Which is interesting, because the edge allows for slightly more sear engagement than a std glock connector.
Your friend was most likely unintentionally finding the shorter reset of the edge. One of my buddies did the exact same thing with my G26. But I was standing right next to him and he FLINCHED. His finger moved the trigger. It didn’t double fire.
EDIT: This may be a good time to point out the lack of extra heavy wall at the end of the trigger stroke may not be for everybody. The edge tends to feel a lot like the Geissele S3G in that there is very little wall. Unintentional follow up shots are common with the S3G and its why Geissele includes two springs so one can tune the trigger.