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Posted: 11/14/2014 5:17:07 PM EDT
| Is a 3.0 - 3.5 trigger to soft on an AR 15? Gun will be mainly used for hunting varmints and deer. It will also be a long range gun. Will not be rapid firing. |
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I like the SSA for hunting in general.
The SSA-E is in the weight range you want. I use the SSA-E for my longer range AR’s. Out of the three RRA FCG’s I have worked with one has already had a problem. There are plenty of other good brands; these are just the ones I have worked with. |
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Hunting deer = walking on terrain which is not always a mowed grass lawn. Where I hunt it can go from a roughly mowed field to broken down tree tops from an ice storm, and the thicker the brush, the more likely the deer.
No less than 6 pounds, as issued and the government standard. In a good trigger with clean break and no creep, you won't notice a 6 pound trigger. Service Rifle competitors have been shooting 4.5, but that is square range shooting from a stationary position. What ruins a trigger is a lot of slack, creep, grit, etc. and you can tune most of that out with an adjustment screw. Which, surprise, is exactly what most of the high end trigger makers include. A 50c screw does most of the first $200 of price increase. Even civilian bolt guns that cost the same as an AR come with an adjustment screw, yet they are praised and the AR despised. Their parts aren't any more expensive than the AR, what they did was eliminate the full auto sear tripping feature, and adjust it for a short reset. If the trigger engagement doesn't have to scrape over a long area of travel, it's going to rate as a higher tier trigger. My AGP lower came with the screw from the factory, I thru in a GI lpk, and it shoots just like my 700 Remington - plus two more pounds of pull. But, I take the AR much further into the rough stuff now with little worry about an ND at the wrong time, same as it did in the service. A light target trigger like the .22 Internation bolt gun I fired in high school is an accident waiting to happen, and yup, that's what you read about in the news. |
| 3.0-3.5 with smooth trigger and no creep can be scary sometimes on my target AR. Scary as in scary fast. Depending on what you buy you could "tune" it to give you exactly what you feel comfortable with. Lighter for target heavier when hunting. You don't want to pull a shot when hunting. Sometimes the adrenalin makes a light trigger feel like nothing. YMMV |
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PasoGunner24,
I'm building a 6.5 Grendel. My price range would be no more then $240? I'm already looking into two stage triggers, but not sure which one to purchase yet. I really wish there was a place where triggers can be tested before purchase. That would make decisions easier. |
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Quoted: PasoGunner24, I'm building a 6.5 Grendel. My price range would be no more then $240? I'm already looking into two stage triggers, but not sure which one to purchase yet. I really wish there was a place where triggers can be tested before purchase. That would make decisions easier. If you want to spend less then the RRA Varmint 2 Stage is a good feeling trigger for $89 off the Equipment Exchange. Some people have had issues with the RRA triggers, but most failure reports I've heard involved them turning into a crappy single stage trigger. I've had several without any problems. The SD-E or SSA-E is a really nice trigger, but you don't get a lot for the extra $100 you spend over the G2S. Their are a lot of nice trigger options available right now. Personally unless it was a bench gun I wouldn't spend the extra $100 to purchase the SSA-E over the G2S. |
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jayzone,
I too wanted to feel a nice trigger before I bought one. I was set on a Timney trigger based on a small amount of research. That was until I went to a local gun show and they had various Geissele triggers in a small display that you could actually "feel". I know they have probably been pulled/fired thousands of times but I was still sold on them. So, as hard as it is to take someones advice on the internet, this is a good case where it is warranted. Look for a sale on a Geissele and never look back. You will not be sorry. |
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http://tradingplacepawn.com/geissele-2-stage.html Use coupon code 10off. If I wanted it for a bench gun I might spend the extra and get this one. http://tradingplacepawn.com/geissele-super-dynamic-enhanced-sd-e.html |
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