Armalite AR-10 Super Sass Rifle

[fasteddie]

Has anyone fired this rifle ? My son was sighting one in for a friend yesterday . It's a .308 / 7.62 . I took him over to our gun range . Surprisingly no one else was there in the 24 degree weather .

I didn't shoot the rifle but my son said it was taking a lot to get used to the trigger squeeze . It had to be pulled quite a bit before any resistance was felt . I would prefer to feel the trigger tension as soon as I started to squeeze it .

[WNYBuckHunter]

I havent shot that one, but I know some of those ARs have funny triggers. Its pretty easy to have the trigger worked on or replaced with a better one. I like the Rock River Arms and DPMS rifles.

[fasteddie]

The price tag on this thing is $2500 . You would think it would have a much better trigger .

I have a Ruger LCP .380 and I hate the trigger on the pistol . Squeeze , squeeze , squeeze and it finally fires . I prefer trigger tension right at the beginning .

[Pygmy]

Sounds like the two stage triggers on Mausers and other older military rifles..

Take up the slack, then squeeeeze....

The squeeze is usually accompanied by lots of CREEP.... ....

[WNYBuckHunter]

Yeah, for that price, you would think it would. Armalite stuff is on the high side price wise to begin with if I remember right though.

Im with you, I like my trigger to be under tension right away.

[Mr VJP]

Most triggers on sporting and  target rifles and handguns today are single stage triggers. These  ideally have no movement before releasing at their set weight, and when  they fire they move only far enough rearward to release the sear. Such  a trigger is a great asset to achieving a surprise break. The feel of a  perfect single stage trigger is often compared to that of breaking a  glass rod. Most triggers supplied on brand new guns today are single  stage triggers, but are not properly adjusted.

A second type of trigger  mechanism is the two stage trigger. This is common on military rifles  and is supposed to be safer than a good single stage trigger. (Real  firearms safety, of course, is between the ears of the shooter and has  nothing to do with trigger type.) A two stage trigger has a long  initial movement. The shooter pulls the trigger back to take up this  slack until a sharply increased resistance is felt. (That is the first  stage.) Then the actual surprise break trigger pull that will fire the  rifle is begun, and from that point on the two stage trigger operates  like a single stage trigger.

  Most commonly found in battle type rifles and even sniper rifles the two stage military trigger can be adjusted to "break" anywhere between 5 to 6 lbs on a battle rifle to less than 2 lbs on a sniper rifle.      The idea is that the trigger mechanism is explicitly engineered to "stage" which is a characteristic which isn't very desirable for close in combat firearms, like pistols and submachine guns but can be very handy for long range shooting. 

 

  The first stage of the trigger pull is where most of the trigger pull weight is exerted by the spring and just a fraction of a millimeter before it breaks there is this very short and serene feeling of just about to but not yet and at this point all it takes is for a hair to fall on the trigger and it will fire.   

  So the idea is you take aim, verify that you indeed want to put say .308"  sized holes on this target, very slightly squeeze the trigger but not  enough for it to go off, just enough so you can feel the end of stage  1, and then, when you feel it is time, the moment of truth.

   

    Insert high frame rate slow motion action sequence here, preferably of a third person view of the bullet in flight.

 

  Hey man, nice shot! 

[16. ga hunter]

you get used to them too all the m-16 in the navy were the same way after you shoot them for awhile you don't even notice