TargetTalk

Meine Liebe Herr,
May we call you "schatzie"?

I personally prefer that there is little or no movement of the trigger at the release of the shot. Others will, no doubt, differ.

The question I see is the following. If you are going to release a perfect shot there is no difference: a large overtravel (no trigger stop) or zero overtravel is the same. And if you are going to release a bad shot? In this case setting the trigger stop to have zero overtravel might be worse? (Anyway I agree that the best trigger action does not have backlash at all, such as the Morini 162E or, among the mechanical pistols, the Pardini K2).
-s.

I shoot an MG1E (electonic trigger) and have removed the overtravel stop for reasons mentioned earlier in the thread. I feel that you need to practice dryfire and also "firing" with the power turned off to "convince" yourself that nothing happens triggerwise when the shot is released.
You have to "remember" this during real shooting to get the full advantage of this.

I believe this can be transferred to shooting with a mechanical match trigger: learning to ignore the "trigger break". With a really short trigger stop, I don't really experience anything happening with a mechanical trigger either: this is as it should be, and I believe the electronic trigger is a good training aid that I happen to be using when shooting as well......

What you need in addition to this, is a stable shooting platform, a good grip on the pistol so it doesn't move. I've added some of my thoughts about this in the current thread on "how to grip".

Has anyone considered the possibility of a soft trigger stop?

Would there be any advantage if the trigger stopped against a spring or rubber stop instead of a hard metalic stop?

Just thinking about the mechanics of a trigger stop.

RJP wrote:Has anyone considered the possibility of a soft trigger stop?.

To my knowledge Roberto Palamà used a soft trigger stop (a spring inside) with his (at that time famous) Patro-M2 in 22LR.

You can see something here (look at the - moving - trigger stop): http://www.robertopalama.com/immagini/P ... tro_M2.jpg

As for air pistols, I've seen a rubber/spongy trigger stop on the Pardini K60 of Mr. Verducci, in Rome. He told me that it was useless since the pellet was already out when that trigger stop was starting its job.

Fascinating! Can anybody identify, give a short history of this one?

http://www.robertopalama.com/immagini/P ... _smont.jpg