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COLUMNS NOVEMBER 2010
     
     
UP ON ARS
Glen Zediker

  AR-15 Triggers
Don't Trip Here
 
             
   
  Here’s a trigger assembled into a Brownells trigger-fitting jig. This lets you install the
trigger on the outside of your receiver so you can see every little nook and cranny, and how the
metal-to-metal fits are working. That’s a help and a half.
 
             
 

First, there is little that can be done to improve a stock trigger. Any real help comes from the aftermarket. The last stock trigger I measured was a little more than 11 pounds. If trigger break-weight is greater than rifle weight, well, it’s a little hard to shoot with.

Competitive position target shooters, like NRA High Power competitors, almost always prefer a 2-stage trigger. That one has free movement to the rear (the first stage), comes to a stop (at the second stage) and then breaks cleanly from that point as pressure is applied. A single-stage has no free movement toward the rear before the break, or isn’t supposed to. Competitive shooters prefer a 2-stage because it’s more controllable and predictable. We use the first stage as the start to a shot, and also as a safety valve, of sorts, if we have to back out. Second, it’s a way to get a light break-weight (the second stage) while maintaining a higher overall weight (the first and second stage added together).

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