Originally Posted by
Sheridan
Other than the shooter, the two most important aspects of an accurate rifle is the barrel & the trigger.
100%...
It doesn't matter how accurate a rifle is, if it has a bad trigger, you'll struggle to get it to shoot well. It's a lot like having power steering in our cars, the ability to control our rifle is paramount.
I've seen it countless times in my own experience...
Had a Marlin 1895 that was grouping well, but had a 7lb trigger, replaced it with a WWG Happy Trigger and a reduced power mainspring, dropped it down to 2.5lbs, dropped my groups down to 1 ragged hole at 100yrds.
Had a Ruger 10/22 I built on a factory action. 6lb trigger. Replacing it with a Volquartzen trigger group brought it down from a 2" rifle at 100yrds to a 3/4" rifle at 100.
Replaced a trigger in a customer's AR-15 prairie dog rig, he went from a single stage 8lb "mil-spec" DPMS trigger to a 2 stage Geisselle with a 22oz total pull (18/4), brought his groups from 6" at 300yrds to 3.5" (not JUST the trigger of course, put in a match Krieger also).
It's the only functional interface between the shooter and the rifle, I'll take a 1.5MOA rifle with a GOOD trigger any day over a 1MOA rifle with a bad trigger.