RobertBeard
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What is a release trigger?
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Its a modification to the trigger unit so instead of firing when you pull the trigger it fires when you release. I believe you can have it so first barrel is pull second barrel is release or both release. so in practice for the latter and more common set up you close gun pull trigger call for target then release ..... bang.
Yep I cant imagine it either, sposed to fix folk with trigger freeze issues and some disabilities are assisted with this apparently.
Yep I cant imagine it either, sposed to fix folk with trigger freeze issues and some disabilities are assisted with this apparently.
RobertBeard
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Sounds a bit frightening to me!
Many thanks for the explanation.
At least it seems that nothing like this was made as standard.
Many thanks for the explanation.
At least it seems that nothing like this was made as standard.
All sounds very strange to me. To make a gun go bang you pull the trigger...not pull the the trigger then release to go bang?
What happens if you have pulled the trigger then get a no-bird? Does that mean you have to stand there with the gun pointing down the range and your finger on the trigger until you call for another bird? What happens if you get a second no-bird?? Once the trigger is set you have no way of demounting unless you fire the round first.......or am I missing something??
If I get a no-bird I demount the gun and start the whole set up process again. Can't do that with a release trigger.
Takes all sorts I guess!!
DT
What happens if you have pulled the trigger then get a no-bird? Does that mean you have to stand there with the gun pointing down the range and your finger on the trigger until you call for another bird? What happens if you get a second no-bird?? Once the trigger is set you have no way of demounting unless you fire the round first.......or am I missing something??
If I get a no-bird I demount the gun and start the whole set up process again. Can't do that with a release trigger.
Takes all sorts I guess!!
DT
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I believe that Kriegoff do the only factory available release trigger (I may be worng though) historically the mod has been carried out by a "good" gunsmith. Worth mentioning is that anyone using a RT at a CPSA event must inform the ref before each round that they are using a RT and a red label/sticker with a "R" is usually displayed under the grip. If you have a disability or whatever and thats the only way you can continue to shoot then they must be a godsend.
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DT
I see your point and think that is why people are somewhat concerned about them, however gunsmiths have been doing this mod for many many years. I must admit I have never shot one so cant answer your question as I do not "Fully" understand the technicalities. Maybe people shout pull then pull trigger then release trigger I really dont know but whatever you do with them it sounds very complicated but as I say above if you need it to carry on shooting then they must be great.
I see your point and think that is why people are somewhat concerned about them, however gunsmiths have been doing this mod for many many years. I must admit I have never shot one so cant answer your question as I do not "Fully" understand the technicalities. Maybe people shout pull then pull trigger then release trigger I really dont know but whatever you do with them it sounds very complicated but as I say above if you need it to carry on shooting then they must be great.
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I know a guy who has a badly injured right hand, only his thumb and half his palm remains. He is an engineer and converted his triggers to push! He did suffer with some double discharges however, as you might imagine, as recoil causes the push trigger to get pressed again.
He now has a real tricky system, involving a push trigger, but totally revised. It involves a small ECU in his pocket, linked by a wire to a control mechanism in the gun to fire the hammers. It is programmed to ignore a second trigger pull too soon after the first. The 'trigger' is actually a button.
Hats off to him. And he is in A class.
He now has a real tricky system, involving a push trigger, but totally revised. It involves a small ECU in his pocket, linked by a wire to a control mechanism in the gun to fire the hammers. It is programmed to ignore a second trigger pull too soon after the first. The 'trigger' is actually a button.
Hats off to him. And he is in A class.
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Just to clarify I just found this on kriegoff web site.
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Should you decide that you need a "release" type trigger in your gun, only the Krieghoff service department should install it. Single release triggers are available in models KS-5, KX-5, the K-32 and the K-80 and double release triggers are available in the K-80 and K-32. We can also restore your gun to a pull-style trigger after a release trigger has been installed.
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Should you decide that you need a "release" type trigger in your gun, only the Krieghoff service department should install it. Single release triggers are available in models KS-5, KX-5, the K-32 and the K-80 and double release triggers are available in the K-80 and K-32. We can also restore your gun to a pull-style trigger after a release trigger has been installed.
I didn't know that either until a few weeks ago, when I was talking to a gunsmith about K80's. I'm a bit old fashioned I guess, in as much as I like to get to know who works on my guns and I like to see where they operate from. OK it's probably not necessary really, but I have always done things that way. Not only that Ian, but sticking a gun in the bloody post would really scare the sh$t out of me!Didnt know that Les but it doesnt suprise me. You cant just use a 6" nail and sticky tape to bodge it back together like we used to do in the old days you know. Its all technical stufff now
jake.keeling
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Not as much as watching somebody trying to disarm a release trigger would scare the sh@t out of you. Think about a loose gun? It would clank open, you couldn't support the forend.I didn't know that either until a few weeks ago, when I was talking to a gunsmith about K80's. I'm a bit old fashioned I guess, in as much as I like to get to know who works on my guns and I like to see where they operate from. OK it's probably not necessary really, but I have always done things that way. Not only that Ian, but sticking a gun in the bloody post would really scare the sh$t out of me!
Shot a club competition a few weeks ago and an old guy in the squad had forgot to change the release trigger he had been trying out on his Perazzi for DTL back to the original pull trigger for sporting.........first bird, pulled the trigger, click, went to dismount, BANG!!! No harm done, but there could have been!!! Put his Perazzi back in the car, shot with his spare gun, badly. He actually had a Perazzi for sale at the ground, if he'd been thinking straight he could have dropped the trigger out of the one on the rack and swapped it for the release trigger on his gun.
