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Over travel on trigger is it a good thing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Spothogg32" data-source="post: 563330" data-attributes="member: 34158"><p>Well Guys, I adjusted my trigger for maximum overtravel and lightened it up a little and headed to the range today to try out some new loads and was pretty happy with the results! I was able to tighten up my 5 shot groups to 1/2 moa or a little less and had no major horizonal stringing to the right! I believe the overtravel helped to make my gun a little more forgiving of my inconsistances. I also really tried to remain relaxed and not tense my muscles up and hold onto the gun so tight. I am used to shooting Big magnums of average weight like a 338 Win and 300 UM so I got used to really holding on to them because of the heavy recoil. My custom rifle is a 7mm Rem mag that weighs 11.25 pounds and is shooting a 180gr Berger VLD at close to 3000+fps so the recoil is not bad at all and I am learning that I do not have to hold on to this gun like my others. I do like the new trigger set up with the overtravel it is crisp and I don't notice the overtravel at the shot at all so I will be setting my future guns up like this as well I don't think it can hurt anything and if nothing else it makes the gun more forgiving. Good luck to you all and thanks for all of your input!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spothogg32, post: 563330, member: 34158"] Well Guys, I adjusted my trigger for maximum overtravel and lightened it up a little and headed to the range today to try out some new loads and was pretty happy with the results! I was able to tighten up my 5 shot groups to 1/2 moa or a little less and had no major horizonal stringing to the right! I believe the overtravel helped to make my gun a little more forgiving of my inconsistances. I also really tried to remain relaxed and not tense my muscles up and hold onto the gun so tight. I am used to shooting Big magnums of average weight like a 338 Win and 300 UM so I got used to really holding on to them because of the heavy recoil. My custom rifle is a 7mm Rem mag that weighs 11.25 pounds and is shooting a 180gr Berger VLD at close to 3000+fps so the recoil is not bad at all and I am learning that I do not have to hold on to this gun like my others. I do like the new trigger set up with the overtravel it is crisp and I don't notice the overtravel at the shot at all so I will be setting my future guns up like this as well I don't think it can hurt anything and if nothing else it makes the gun more forgiving. Good luck to you all and thanks for all of your input! [/QUOTE]
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