Why So Many Triggers?

[rWt]

I have owned handguns with wide serrated, wide smooth, narrow serrated and narrow smooth triggers. Why so many variations.

Which one is best for field (hunting) and self-defense use?

Thanks.

Dick

 

[Old Dude]

It's like so many other things--individual preference. I tend not to notice the "style" of the triggers on my guns as much as the feel of them when I'm shooting.

If there were a "best" trigger, I would imagine that all manufacturers would flock to it like cats to tuna.

 

[pauli]

why so many triggers? why, so many fingers...

 

[Standing Wolf]

Which one is best for field (hunting) and self-defense use?

The one you can pull most accurately.

My personal preference is for wide serrated triggers, but what works for this old bullseye shooter won't necessarily work for someone else. My best advice would be to rent a selection of guns and see what seems to work best for you.

 

[RyanM]

Second whatever works for you.

Though with enough practice, you can probably get used to any trigger. The first time I tried a Ruger SP-101 trigger, I hated how wide and sharp-edged it was. Bought it planning to file the edges down and make the trigger face more rounded. Never actually did, since after a second thought it seemed pretty dumb to ruin that target gray finish in one spot like that. Now that I've got a couple hundred live rounds and and a couple thousand dry fires under my belt, I couldn't imagine having a different trigger on it. It's perfect just the way it is. I'm sure that if the Ruger were destroyed in a tragic hamster-feeding accident and I had to replace it with something totally different, the trigger on that would seem perfect the way it is after a few thousand squeezes.