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Is my trigger safe?
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<blockquote data-quote="azsugarbear" data-source="post: 1865661" data-attributes="member: 4809"><p>As some of you may know, in addition to shooting LR, I also build custom flintlock rifles. These fine rifles were always loaded when hunting in the field. The better quality rifles usually had light set triggers. None of these rifles ever had a safety. Safety was <strong>and is</strong> always determined by the person holding the rifle. The addition of a safety or light weight trigger does not alter that fact. Period.</p><p></p><p>I cannot help but smile at some of the comments people make on these threads. They take their local hunting situations and try to impose them on other hunters all across the country without allowing for the fact that circumstances, the game and terrain are often quite different. Like lancetkenyon, I live in AZ where the landscape is usually wide open. Like lancetkenyon, my LR rifles all have a trigger pull of about one pound. My custom triggers are made for just such a pull weight (all mine wear the two-stage triggers made by Huber Concepts). While I have met Lance a couple of times, I have never hunted with him and I don't know him personally. Having said that, I would not hesitate to hunt with him and his LR rigs with one pound trigger pulls. Like Lance, I do not load until I am ready to shoot. It is simply good safety practice - just like being at the range where you are not permitted to load until on the firing line. Our circumstances out west afford us that luxury. It has nothing to do with trusting a man with a loaded weapon. I recognize that other hunters may face different circumstances where this would not be practical. I would never assume to label them as being any more or less safe than myself.</p><p></p><p>Some posters on this thread arguing for loaded weapons with heavier trigger pulls gave examples such as the need for taking a quick 'snap shot' or likened it to hunting with a shotgun. First of all, while both of these examples are valid, they do not fall within the realm of LRH. The need to take a 'snap' shot at large game is something quite rare out here. Generally, game can't run far enough, and fast enough to outrun a bullet. If I ever found it necessary to hunt in tight quarters, I would use my 20" barreled brush gun with open sights and heavier trigger pull - certainly not a scoped, 28" barreled LR rifle. I do hunt dove, quail and other upland birds with a shotgun loaded and with safety on, but then my shotgun does not wear a 1 lb. trigger either. Different jobs require different tools.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azsugarbear, post: 1865661, member: 4809"] As some of you may know, in addition to shooting LR, I also build custom flintlock rifles. These fine rifles were always loaded when hunting in the field. The better quality rifles usually had light set triggers. None of these rifles ever had a safety. Safety was [B]and is[/B] always determined by the person holding the rifle. The addition of a safety or light weight trigger does not alter that fact. Period. I cannot help but smile at some of the comments people make on these threads. They take their local hunting situations and try to impose them on other hunters all across the country without allowing for the fact that circumstances, the game and terrain are often quite different. Like lancetkenyon, I live in AZ where the landscape is usually wide open. Like lancetkenyon, my LR rifles all have a trigger pull of about one pound. My custom triggers are made for just such a pull weight (all mine wear the two-stage triggers made by Huber Concepts). While I have met Lance a couple of times, I have never hunted with him and I don't know him personally. Having said that, I would not hesitate to hunt with him and his LR rigs with one pound trigger pulls. Like Lance, I do not load until I am ready to shoot. It is simply good safety practice - just like being at the range where you are not permitted to load until on the firing line. Our circumstances out west afford us that luxury. It has nothing to do with trusting a man with a loaded weapon. I recognize that other hunters may face different circumstances where this would not be practical. I would never assume to label them as being any more or less safe than myself. Some posters on this thread arguing for loaded weapons with heavier trigger pulls gave examples such as the need for taking a quick 'snap shot' or likened it to hunting with a shotgun. First of all, while both of these examples are valid, they do not fall within the realm of LRH. The need to take a 'snap' shot at large game is something quite rare out here. Generally, game can't run far enough, and fast enough to outrun a bullet. If I ever found it necessary to hunt in tight quarters, I would use my 20" barreled brush gun with open sights and heavier trigger pull - certainly not a scoped, 28" barreled LR rifle. I do hunt dove, quail and other upland birds with a shotgun loaded and with safety on, but then my shotgun does not wear a 1 lb. trigger either. Different jobs require different tools. [/QUOTE]
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