Hear me out. I’ve noticed many online and magazine reviewers recently (hyper) focusing on how good a particular gun’s trigger reset is. To the point that they are faulting the gun if they short stroke the gun’s trigger and ride the reset too closely.
I don’t get this mentality. Triggers each have differences in the manner in which they operate. From a long smooth revolver trigger with full let off required, to a very short crisp 1911 break and tiny reset, to a striker fired mushy take up and usually slightly longer but more positive reset, they all have their different characteristics. It seems a cop-out to me when someone faults a trigger for not resetting the way their Gucci Glock does. Why expect the latest gun to reset like the last one does?
When some reviewer who is riding the reset experiences a failure because they thought the trigger reset when it didn’t, isn’t that a user error and not a gun design error? Seems like a lot of people are becoming too reliant on each trigger to be exactly the same as the other, rather than taking the time to learn the gun.
In other words, when I see a reviewer nitpicking a trigger (and this is not the same as a legitimate criticism of a 14 pound gritty trigger) I tend to think, “well, you just haven’t practiced enough on this platform to really learn the gun.”
An I wrong, or do reviewers tend to blame user error and unfamiliarity with a gun on the gun itself instead of on themselves?
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I don’t get this mentality. Triggers each have differences in the manner in which they operate. From a long smooth revolver trigger with full let off required, to a very short crisp 1911 break and tiny reset, to a striker fired mushy take up and usually slightly longer but more positive reset, they all have their different characteristics. It seems a cop-out to me when someone faults a trigger for not resetting the way their Gucci Glock does. Why expect the latest gun to reset like the last one does?
When some reviewer who is riding the reset experiences a failure because they thought the trigger reset when it didn’t, isn’t that a user error and not a gun design error? Seems like a lot of people are becoming too reliant on each trigger to be exactly the same as the other, rather than taking the time to learn the gun.
In other words, when I see a reviewer nitpicking a trigger (and this is not the same as a legitimate criticism of a 14 pound gritty trigger) I tend to think, “well, you just haven’t practiced enough on this platform to really learn the gun.”
An I wrong, or do reviewers tend to blame user error and unfamiliarity with a gun on the gun itself instead of on themselves?
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