A properly working and cleaned rifle will go off instantaneously after pulling the trigger. If it does not, ether your fire hole is clogged or it is too small. My brother had a cva and he converted it to 209 primer. The first time he shot it the thing had almost a one second delay. Every time we fired it. So we took it home put the breach in a drill press and slightly oversized the fire hole. We never had a problem since.