If you lighten the hammer spring, make sure it works reliably with the brand of primers that you use.
I personally prefer lighter hammer springs, and I back them down as far as possible while still providing for 100% ignition with Federal brand primers. If you use CCI primers you wont be able to back down quite so far. If you go to Wolf Spring's web site, you will see that you can get 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 Lb springs for $4.29 each, or you can get all 6 for $18 bucks if you want to experiment.
As far as trigger springs... for action shooting you don't necessarily need or want a super light trigger. It just isn't needed, and could present a safety issue. Yes, I have a Ruger Blackhawk with a somewhat light trigger pull, but I use it only in Silhouette shooting. Feel free to experiment but consider that for action shooting a really light trigger spring isn't needed at all, and in fact might not be wanted in some cases.
As far as unhooking one half of the spring... I tried it once (doesn't everyone?) just to see what might happen and it was a little lighter than I felt comfortable with under any conceivable shooting condition so I went back to a lighter side spring installed as intended.
Rick