Help requested - looking for a remote trigger puller

[btefft]

Help requested - looking for a remote trigger puller

I've looked high and low and can't find what I have in mind.

What I'm looking for is a device that will remotely pull a trigger for me.

The reason I want something like this is to make zeroing a scope easier - hands free, so to speak. I would operate the device and it would pull the trigger for me - all I'd have to do is aim the gun from the bench rest - get the cross hairs centered and then let the device pull the trigger for me.

Does any such thing exist?

A link would be nice, too.

Thanks
Hack

 

[Kind of Blued]

What advantage are you looking at achieving? My first idea was something like this, but I'm not sure what you're getting at.

 

[btefft]

I'm trying to see if my scope is worth a crap. Sometimes it hits the x and other times it doesn't. I'm trying to figure out if it is me or the scope that is a POS.

Hack

 

[MattTheHat]

Google is your friend. http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0024152226084a.shtml


-Matt

 

[btefft]

Thanks Matt. I found that one also, but the reviews said I was terrible.

Hack

 

[Frank Ettin]

...I'm trying to see if my scope is worth a crap. Sometimes it hits the x and other times it doesn't. I'm trying to figure out if it is me or the scope that is a POS....

It almost sounds like you may need a better, and more solid, rest more than a remote trigger device. There can be many variables that affect shot-to-shot consistency. How's the ammunition? How is the trigger -- crisp, clean and relatively light or heavy and creepy?

 

[jim in Anchorage]

Far more information needed here.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Far more information needed here.

Agreed.

What are you using for a rest? Are you able to hold the crosshairs on target with little to no movement?

Once you get the gun stable enough, if the shots start on target and then move away, and CONTINUE to hit off target, your scope MOUNT may be the issue. If your shots stay in the same general area on target, but are not making tight groups, you may just have a somewhat inaccurate rifle, or you may need to work on trigger pull or breathing.

Either way, the scope quality is probably the LAST thing I would diagnose as the problem.

 

[woad_yurt]

Yup to the above.

Are you getting good groups or not? If you're getting lousy groups, it's the gun or the scope may be moving around.

 

[Tirod]

We haven't even discussed ammo variables, if you were shooting in the wind, barrel heating and movement, plus others.

What size groups at what distance in what caliber with what gun?

 

[DHJenkins]

If you think it's you, why not let someone else shoot it? Won't cost you a dime, other than ammo.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I've fabbed one up from an old camera shutter release and some instrument clamps.

Get imaginative!

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

Think its called a string.

 

[rcmodel]

Get some sandbags and a solid bench. Shoot setting down with the gun on bags and it will either shoot or not unless you are flenching badly.

If you intend to hand-hold the gun while aiming through the scope, an automatic trigger puller is not going to help whatsoever!

And I agree with getting a good shooter to test the rifle for you.

rc

 

[TX1911fan]

If you are going to spend the money anyway, get a Lead Sled and use that. Great rest, totally adjustable, and with a few bags of shot on there, you won't have to worry about recoil, so you can concentrate on just pulling the trigger. Google Lead Sled and get one. That will solve your problems.

 

[btefft]

I'm using my Calwell lead sled and I'm firing my brand new Ruger pellet rifle ("forward recoil"). On it is a air rifle scope that came with the pellet gun. I may have to upgrade the scope.

Hack

 

[Red Tornado]

I think this http://www.hyskore.com/precision-rifle-rest.htm is exactly what you're after, but I think it's pretty pricey.

Have you double checked all of your scope mounting screws?
RT

 

[Dan Crocker]

Think its called a string.

Totally works. Put the gun in a rest and vice it in place, then string.

 

[mcdonl]

Think its called a string.

Totally works. Put the gun in a rest and vice it in place, then string.

You just summed up the first shooting experience with my mosin...

 

[Dan Crocker]

Ha ha! I wedged mine in the fork of a tree and stood on the other side.

 

[lvcat2004]

 

[rcmodel]

brand new Ruger pellet rifle ("forward recoil"). I may have to upgrade the scope.

A lot of, shall we say, less expensive break action air rifles don't shoot as well with a scope as they do with the open sights.

The problem is, the barrel doesn't always return to the exact same position each time when you cock it.

The scope is clamped to the receiver, and the barrel isn't.

The open sights are on the barrel, not the receiver so it doesn't matter where it points after you cock it.

rc

 

[ROBBY.1911]

they used to make little gizmos that would let you fire your gun in sort of a three-shot burst. it attached to the trigger guard. might be some direction, there.

 

[HoosierQ]

I would think that a true machine rest would have that feature. Of course I don't think those come cheap. They work a lot like the camera cable so that you don't wiggle the camera on the tripod. They are designed to get objective accuracy tests on firearms and also allow for firing from behind a shield the first time a new or refurbished gun is fired. I saw a thing on the History Channel called "Boneyards". They did the Aniston arsenal down in Alabama. After they refurbish any thing from an M9 (Beretta) to a Ma-Duece, the guy fired one round from behind a shield with the remote device just to make sure. They he let 'er rip in a normal fashion. If it works, it passes and back to the line or wherever it goes.

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

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A mere glimpse of the title made me think...............



Assassination plot.