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Old 09-14-2015, 08:23 AM
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super_hunt54
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The problem with a 2 pound trigger isn't so much a mechanical issue, I.E. hard bolt work or brush and such. The problem with them is weather and field conditions. When hunting cold weather, most don't take off their glove to shoot. The "feel" of a 2 pound trigger just got lighter! Get a big buck in the scope, the "feel" just got lighter because of an adrenaline dump. All kinds of situations out there that can make that trigger break before you fully intended it with a very light trigger. Field conditions= shooting offhand in the standing or kneeling position for most so you take safety off, then completely "settle" your crosshairs then fire. It's during that "settling" that some accidentally set off a light trigger. Unlike at the bench or range where you have time to take a breath, relax yourself, ease out a breath, squeeze, in the field there may be only a few seconds to bring everything together to get a shot on a buck of a lifetime.
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