Could be construed as tasteless, certainly.
Have you actually shot a Savage with the Accutrigger?
Yup. BTW, Swingset, pay attention, after which point you're more than welcome to say "Ugh" and then add me to your ignore list: As a range safety officer I got to try several different Accu-Trigger rifles, which I did just in case the first was a fluke. I found all of them distasteful in their own special, politically correct sort of way. It felt more uncomfortable than the proverbial priest at a Boy Scout jamboree. The actual descriptive term used was not repeatable in a forum that includes non-heterosexual company. Which was a shame, the guns grouped rather well, given the funky trigger mechanicals. Savage
knows how to make a decent-shooting gun, my old Model 340 reminded me of that fact time and again. As someone who's gun collection numbers in the hundreds, and the majority of those are centerfire rifles, you can wager I would know how to give an objective evaluation from one rifle to the next. If a gun doesn't shoot well, I get rid of it. And that's whether it's a Stolle Panda benchrest rifle, or Winchester 94 levergun.
Now, while I have no obligation to answer to you, let's get this out there in front. The gentleman who authored this thread asked an honest question concerning experiences with the Savage Accu-Trigger. I gave an honest response, based on my own experiences with that product. Sorry it didn't fall in line with what others in the thread said, or it gave cause to question my credibility. (Actually, I'm not really sorry) That makes me a bad person, I suppose. Yet another one hiding behind the anonymity of an internet alias, as it were. If that means I'm off Steelhead's and Swingset's Christmas Card list, then oh friggin' well.
And I'll repeat: For people who haven't experienced better, it may very well be the best trigger they've ever found on a factory rifle. I'm not disparaging them their choice, because it's probably all the gun that their budgets would allow for, and there were no Remington 700's and 7's within visual range when they made the decision. But as I stated before, I do find it a sad commentary of our times when "good enough is the enemy of best". Savage didn't have to go with the monkey-motion trigger - their earlier triggers could be adjusted to something less than a bazillion pounds pull, without benefit of the unneeded interlock. Were I the owner or CEO of Savage, I'd have the engineers and designers of that thing run out of town on a rail, period. But, luckily for Savage, I'm not, and so they can proceed to keep the consumer frog in that pot of increasingly-warm water, knowing full well that the frog's comfort level with the pre-trigger will level off with time. The guns will sell. So will Remington 710's.
Too many of us old-timers grew up as kids shooting rifles like Winchester Model 52's and Remington 513's/521's, with exquisite
factory triggers, and then graduated to the larger centerfire versions from the same manufacturers, again, with decent, no-nonsense triggers. These weren't high-dollar Anschutz-grade target guns, they were working-man's guns meant to put venison on the table. And we did just fine doing that, sans any additional trigger interlocks, or hammer-block safeties on our lever guns, for that matter.
For somebody who's been used to shooting rifles with "normal" triggers, the new Savage may very well be unnerving. The gun has potential, so don't let the trigger put you off. It can be fixed. I don't take any money from Rifle Basix or any other aftermarket trigger company, but neither do I mind clueing somebody in on that last little modification that makes an otherwise excellent product darned near perfect.
