thompson center 54.cal hawken

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08-04-2005 | 09:55 AM

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eldeguello

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RE: thompson center 54.cal hawken

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ORIGINAL: mauser06

be CAREFUL hunting with hair triggers!!! the guy that taught me to shoot my flinter showed me how to use it but said he didnt recomend hunting and using it....i was much more accurate with the hair trigger...and thats why they have them...the gun goes off with less effort and more surprise..well...me and another buddy were set up on 2 exscape routes...2 other buddys were driving for us..this was in october during a doe muzzleloader hunt....half hour passes and i hear deer coming...all the sudden they are FEET away...i carry a homeade set of shooting sticks with the flinter....im much more accurate like that..and wanted to try it while hunting...just seemed like it would help and not hurt...i caulked the hammer while they were at point blank range when they turned their heads...heared it....eyeballed me...and took off half arsed and i bleated with my mouth..got them to stop...and had the sticks ready with the gun on it...set the hair trigger and went to nudge the gun a HAIR just to put it on the shoulder bone(deer i was shooting was quartering towards me...i was shooting a 350gr maxi and wanted to bust the closet leg and send the bullet through the vitals..i always think of shots like that and how to maximize my bullets effectivness) and all the sudden KABOOM...i pooped..the deer pooped....we were all scarrred.....somehow right when i was getting ready to squeeze the hair trigger it caught on my finger and went off.....totally missed the deer for 100% sure....but i learned my lesson...the trigger just caught on my finger...i came home and adjusted it and made it a bit heavier.....it was a tad lighter then TC recomends at the time...(bought it used)....so just becareful..i still use my hair trigger...love it...but i learned to be careful the hard way......cost me my first muzzleloader deer...which im still hunting for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

""Regarding the double-set trigger: this is the BEST type of trigger you can have on ANY KIND of a hunting rifle, IF you are willing to practice using it until it becomes instinctive. This trigger can be set and tripped without damaging anything, so you can use the DST for "dry-firing" your rifle without cocking the hammer. To use it correctly when hunting, you pull the rear trigger to set it ONLY when you are raising the rifle to take aim at the game animal, just after having brought the hammer to full cock!Then, the instant the sights are perfectly aligned, you just barely touch the front trigger to trip it, and the bullet will strike exactly where you aimed! Once you have practiced until operation of the DST is something you do without even thinking about it, it is the fastest of all possible triggers for hunting rifles.""

As I said, don't use the set trigger unless you take the time practicing with itto the point that PROPERUSE becomes instinctive. In using a DST, you NEVER ALLOW your trigger finger off of the front edge of the trigger guard AFTER YOU'VE SET THE TRIGGER,until the INSTANT you have decided to touch the fronttrigger-AFTER the sights are aligned on the spot you want to hit....

The above story is a good example of what NOT to do. If you're doing it right, your "trigger will NOT "just catch" on your finger...

Of course, when hunting, one must always BE CAREFUL, no matter what kind of trigger you have!