Ebonclaw
06-18-2002, 04:31 PM
A lot of you guys have electros, and I myself use one. I read all the time "my trigger pull is .000000007937 mm". Well, after having my Storm set to a VERY tiny trigger pull for a long time, I got to shoot a Dark Angel. I was kinda shocked that the owner had a longer trigger pull than mine....and I was shooting faster! Here's my theory:
A trigger with a micro touch is HARDER to fire rapidly than say, a slightly longer trigger. Here's why.
Clicking your trigger at such a short distance means waaay too much force is applied. You only have to barely touch it, remember? Your trigger finger hits the stop and you have to actually focus a little more on actually pulling the trigger than your shooting. However, if you have a trigger with a little travel distance, you can move shoot faster because you don't have to tell yourself to "bring the finger back and fire again"....this is what gives an RT mag its RoF, the magnet kicks the trigger back FOR you. What's slwoing you down isn't the trigger firing, it's the return. A longer pull results in less return. Ideally, a trigger would be as short as possible...but with some back travel, after the actual triggering point. However, due to the fact that once you depress the button, it's like trying to click your mouse farther, you can't have it that way. The trick is to give your trigger a longer travel so that it triggers at the END of your trigger pull. But you still need it short and crisp enough that the pull travel doesn't take longer than the return.
Try adjusting your "hair triggers" slightly longer until you notice a difference, good or bad. If you like it, keep it. I found by giving my trigger more travel, I can pull faster and more reliably. I'm not talking manual trigger length here, just slightly longer than what you've got right now.
A trigger with a micro touch is HARDER to fire rapidly than say, a slightly longer trigger. Here's why.
Clicking your trigger at such a short distance means waaay too much force is applied. You only have to barely touch it, remember? Your trigger finger hits the stop and you have to actually focus a little more on actually pulling the trigger than your shooting. However, if you have a trigger with a little travel distance, you can move shoot faster because you don't have to tell yourself to "bring the finger back and fire again"....this is what gives an RT mag its RoF, the magnet kicks the trigger back FOR you. What's slwoing you down isn't the trigger firing, it's the return. A longer pull results in less return. Ideally, a trigger would be as short as possible...but with some back travel, after the actual triggering point. However, due to the fact that once you depress the button, it's like trying to click your mouse farther, you can't have it that way. The trick is to give your trigger a longer travel so that it triggers at the END of your trigger pull. But you still need it short and crisp enough that the pull travel doesn't take longer than the return.
Try adjusting your "hair triggers" slightly longer until you notice a difference, good or bad. If you like it, keep it. I found by giving my trigger more travel, I can pull faster and more reliably. I'm not talking manual trigger length here, just slightly longer than what you've got right now.