Are there hammer fired guns, and striker fired guns, or, are there trigger fired guns? Taking the last as a working view, then it makes sense to use a separate thumb safety to control it being fired - however the primer activator works really has no bearing on it.
Trigger weight is more important. Hammer or striker, both can be as light as engineering can produce. 10 pounds, 6 pounds, 2.5 pounds, you can get the break as light as you desire. That being fact, then the question is, how safe do you want it to be?
Carry a SA with light trigger and no safety? Wait - I never said which primer activator was used.
Here's where tradition has intruded on practices we should be observing. In the past a SA gun was usually hammer fired - but now it can be striker fired. The pistol cycles recocking the primer activator and it's ready to release. No further trigger pulling needed to get it to full cock. Very little trigger creep and it breaks quickly, meaning, hammer or striker, it goes off.
It's not a hammer vs striker anymore. It's trigger fired, as there is no difference in activation, and in fact, it could be said it's much harder to tell now what mechanism actually releases the potential spring power. We don't have light crisp hammer guns vs long spongy striker guns now. It's been working toward that for 20 years.Blindfolded the average shooter may have a really tough time feeling any mechanical difference at all.
If how we pop the primer really has no bearing on how we control the trigger, then is it any wonder that now we have a lot of old and new shooters opting for striker fired guns with thumb safeties? Read up on all the P365 owners adding thumb safeties, and the discussion isn't about how hard it is - they are drop in parts - it's about finding the parts as they sell out quickly. P320 owners are installing them, too.
Are we doing that because we can? Sure. Are some buying that design because it does not have a trigger doohickey sticking out of it? I think so. That design has been out since the mid 1980's, the general shooting public has gone from divisive love or hate over it, more importantly, they have also kept up with the track record of safety it's demonstrating and it's no longer a mandatory option getting a striker fired gun. Striker does NOT equal toggle action safety trigger. While all the makers have copied it, almost slavishly for decades, it's notably becoming common that they are not. I feel a loss of confidence in the system spreading. And the result is to go back to what we know works and is tried and true, a separate thumb safety. Because, we get really conservative about things when it comes to life and death. Or, even shooting your leg.
That was too tempting.
Goes to maybe we should think of these sub components in their own right, not as a defining measure of how a pistol activates the primer. There is no real specific reason why a toggle safety trigger isn't offered on a hammer fired gun. It's just mechanical tomfoolery at the design stage, so to speak, same as making a revolver fire the bottom cylinder, or load the barrel behind the magazine stack. Or even gas delay it. All have been done, along with a roller locked action. The Webley - Fosbury was an auto rotating and cocking revolver. That would be a really interesting barbecue gun.
Well, striker fired guns with thumb safeties. I'm literally living in the future.
Trigger weight is more important. Hammer or striker, both can be as light as engineering can produce. 10 pounds, 6 pounds, 2.5 pounds, you can get the break as light as you desire. That being fact, then the question is, how safe do you want it to be?
Carry a SA with light trigger and no safety? Wait - I never said which primer activator was used.
Here's where tradition has intruded on practices we should be observing. In the past a SA gun was usually hammer fired - but now it can be striker fired. The pistol cycles recocking the primer activator and it's ready to release. No further trigger pulling needed to get it to full cock. Very little trigger creep and it breaks quickly, meaning, hammer or striker, it goes off.
It's not a hammer vs striker anymore. It's trigger fired, as there is no difference in activation, and in fact, it could be said it's much harder to tell now what mechanism actually releases the potential spring power. We don't have light crisp hammer guns vs long spongy striker guns now. It's been working toward that for 20 years.Blindfolded the average shooter may have a really tough time feeling any mechanical difference at all.
If how we pop the primer really has no bearing on how we control the trigger, then is it any wonder that now we have a lot of old and new shooters opting for striker fired guns with thumb safeties? Read up on all the P365 owners adding thumb safeties, and the discussion isn't about how hard it is - they are drop in parts - it's about finding the parts as they sell out quickly. P320 owners are installing them, too.
Are we doing that because we can? Sure. Are some buying that design because it does not have a trigger doohickey sticking out of it? I think so. That design has been out since the mid 1980's, the general shooting public has gone from divisive love or hate over it, more importantly, they have also kept up with the track record of safety it's demonstrating and it's no longer a mandatory option getting a striker fired gun. Striker does NOT equal toggle action safety trigger. While all the makers have copied it, almost slavishly for decades, it's notably becoming common that they are not. I feel a loss of confidence in the system spreading. And the result is to go back to what we know works and is tried and true, a separate thumb safety. Because, we get really conservative about things when it comes to life and death. Or, even shooting your leg.
That was too tempting.
Goes to maybe we should think of these sub components in their own right, not as a defining measure of how a pistol activates the primer. There is no real specific reason why a toggle safety trigger isn't offered on a hammer fired gun. It's just mechanical tomfoolery at the design stage, so to speak, same as making a revolver fire the bottom cylinder, or load the barrel behind the magazine stack. Or even gas delay it. All have been done, along with a roller locked action. The Webley - Fosbury was an auto rotating and cocking revolver. That would be a really interesting barbecue gun.
Well, striker fired guns with thumb safeties. I'm literally living in the future.