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General Category => Gear Review => Topic started by: Nemo on April 03, 2021, 02:28:54 PM

Title: Drop In Trigger
Post by: Nemo on April 03, 2021, 02:28:54 PM

Thoughts gents?

Nemo

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/102233573?pid=243483 (https://www.midwayusa.com/product/102233573?pid=243483)

Title: Re: Drop In Trigger
Post by: grizz on April 03, 2021, 02:51:41 PM

I dont have experience with them

Title: Re: Drop In Trigger
Post by: CJS06 on April 04, 2021, 09:00:19 PM

Nemo

For what it worth, stay with traditional triggers rather than the drop in "cartridge" style.  If you are interested in a very good trigger for around the same price point consider either the Geissele G2S or the Larue MBT triggers.  For a good single stage trigger look at the ALG triggers for significantly less.

The reason I say this is from what I have witnessed in multiple significant round count classes. If you run your gun hard or in less than ideal environments (sand, mud, etc), particularly suppressed, you will see both a build up of crud as well as some amount of blown primers.  These are situations that can lead to failures in your trigger.  A traditional trigger is much easier to clean out and get back up and running again. I have seen a blown primer get into the mechanism of a drop in style trigger, lock it up and the gun was down completely until it could be removed, cleaned out and reinstalled.  I have had a dead trigger due to a blown primer.  I was able to push out the pin, shake out the primer, and reinstall the pin without missing any of our course of fire during the exercise. This was with a Geissele SSA-E. I have had to fix a number of triggers for people at heavy use classes and all have been drop ins other than one RRA National Match 2 Stage.

Drop ins are great for hobby guns, fun guns, and there are some great ones for precision rifles and competition guns. For hard use or guns that you may have to rely on, stick with more traditional triggers, particularly with the high quality options that are available.

This is noting against RISE triggers themselves. This is more about the type of trigger.

https://www.larue.com/products/larue-tactical-mbt-2s-trigger/ (https://www.larue.com/products/larue-tactical-mbt-2s-trigger/)

https://www.primaryarms.com/geissele-automatics-g2s-two-stage-ar-15-trigger-.154in (https://www.primaryarms.com/geissele-automatics-g2s-two-stage-ar-15-trigger-.154in)

I hope this is helpful.

Chris

Title: Re: Drop In Trigger
Post by: Nemo on April 05, 2021, 08:14:48 AM

Thanks Good Sir!

I have a Daniel Defense full LPK.  I will just use that.

Nemo

Title: Re: Drop In Trigger
Post by: Felix on April 19, 2021, 07:43:43 AM

Out-of-the-box, my Core AR-15 trigger had a good enough trigger pull for fast work.   But miserable for accuracy at long range, breathe/hold/squeeze.    You could feel every tiny imperfection of the machined surfaces.  "Gritty".
If inclined, take a look at online videos of how to "work" a factory trigger.   But be aware of the safety issues if not done right (over-done).
Without spending anymore money than for a few more buffing wheels for my Dremel and a can of polishing compound I was able to bring trigger action in to "smooth" with a slightly lighter pull, no overkill or safety issues.   And if I _had_ screwed it up, the replacement stock trigger/hammer parts were only a whooping $ 25.00.   
Sorry, do not know the actual pull weight, but it is lighter without being a "hair trigger".