[Matt1911]

While at the range today,a fellow was talking about his new remington,and how it had electric primers,at first i thought he was pullin my leg,..
What is the advantage?
Would one go off from say,static?

[Zak Smith]

The "Electron-X" system has been around for a while - more than 4 years if I remember correctly.

Primary advantage is decreased lock time.
Potential advantage is "electric" trigger which can be programmed to break with "no" movement.

Lots of downsides.

-z

[Navy joe]

dodo bird.

[Gewehr98]

The electric primers need a fairly high voltage or current to fire, hence all the electronics in the buttstock of the rifle. Static electricity isn't enough to fire them off.

Benefits: virtually zero locktime, and a clean trigger pull, adjustable with no stack or creep before electrical contact is made, so it has the potential to be a very accurate system.

Drawbacks: Expensive gun, going for about $1400 in the .22-250 version, and the ammo isn't cheap, either. Remington does sell the electric primers so you can handload your own Etronix rounds. Oh, did I mention the gun has an ignition key in the pistol grip?

[Mike Irwin]

There was another gun, from Europe, in the early 1990s, that used some sort of special cartridge with electric primers. Valor? Valtro? Something like that.

Finn Aagard wrote an article about it for Rifleman when I was there.

[cratz2]

Actually, a number of distributors just released a bunch of them at about $760. Local guy has been selling them for $8xx something, $850 or $860.

I think right now you have to buy Remingtons loaded ammo which isn't really too crazy expensive but they're getting ready to come out with the raw primers so you can reload them yourself.

They rifles look pretty cool... sort of have that Kimber Eclipse look going on. I just can't imagine getting one myself as I'm pretty content to stick with a decent rifle with a trigger job.

[curt]

I thought i heard that remington was discontinuing them. Don't really understand why after 4 years they still haven't released the primers for reloaders. Seems like a bonehead marketing move. Who is nuts about locktime and minimal triggers? Benchrest shooters and benchrest shooters don't buy factory ammo they reload.

[swifter]

The info I got was that there was a "bad lot" of primers that were recalled, then Big Green took their sweet time about the next batch.:confused:
The locktime is great, but that paranoid living in the back of my skull keeps muttering about: "Yeah, unril they require that on all guns..." and "wonder what a good /magneticelecrtonic pulse would do to the electronics in that musket?" I try not to listen, but he gets loud at times...:what:

Tom

[geekay]

paranoid about locktime. Much more so than benchresters. but if I recall electronic triggers are not allowed for silhouette.
BTW a recent "Fly" shoot at Belmont was won by a Junior silhouette shooter using his silhouette rifle over sandbags. Five shots on the "Fly" @ 500 metres, the only on to get more than one "Fly".