How Does a Trigger Job Help Accuracy?

[DonNikmare]

I keep reading about trigger jobs helping with accuracy. May be it's because I'm new to rifles and don't shoot very much in general but I can't quite figure out how a better feeling trigger would affect accuracy all that much.

Can you help me understand this?

Thanks.

Nik

 

[Harry Tuttle]

a smooth, predictable release keeps the barrel steady

 

[Gewehr98]

You're not yanking the sights or crosshairs around

and, incidentally, the whole rifle, when you have a crisp, clean trigger with a decent pull weight.

 

[James Bondrock]

The trigger has nothing to do with the intrinsic/mechanical/inherent accuracy of the rifle. The accuracy increase comes from the fact that you do not move the rifle off target struggling with a heavy or creepy trigger pull.

 

[CaesarI]

Like James Boondrock said a good trigger, that breaks real clean, such that you can barely feel it move aids *practical* accuracy, not *intrinsic* accuracy.

It makes it *easier* to be accurate.

From a benchrest, there's less difference.

-Morgan