Unless you are buying a fully custom rifle, you are getting your rifle off the "ready to wear" rack at thefirearms store, and most likely one size fits all. You want a US made high power hunting rifle? I'm guessing you are looking at a 13 1/2" trigger pull. You don't like it, you want a 15 1/2" trigger pull . . . tell me where you can buy one off the shelf, mass produced? You don't like it, you want a 12" trigger pull . . . tell me where you can buy one off the shelf. So it is with other fit parameters such as drop at heel, etc.

I hear a lot of people talking about a gun needing to fit you, but then I consider the actual state of the mass produced firearms product market, and I know there is precious little difference in the physical configuration of these guns. Obviously people are fitting themselves to the gun, not the other way around. I take that to mean that -- short of buying a full custom gun -- everyone is just learning to like the fit of the guns they buy.

I've read somewhere that the trigger pull of a rifle should correspond to the distance between the crook of your trigger finger and the inside of your elbow. For me that is 15 1/2". I actually have a couple of rifles -- built by my father -- that have this 15 1/2" trigger pull, and I like this feel versus rifles with shorter trigger pull. For example, my Remington 870 .30-06 and my Winchester Featherweight model 70 .243 each have about 13 1/2" trigger pull. I feel my arm is cranked back overly far with these. Nevertheless, I'm able to shoot with these rifles. When you think about it, you don't spend much time in shooting position, rifle planted to shoulder. I guess the answer is just adjust. Beats hunting with an atlatyl or one of those 19th century rifles with the outlandishly large drop at heel.