Bakwa said:

Weird and anecdote, but...
Almost a decade and half ago, I was on a rescue mission in a hostile area. I was the first to encounter the guy we were there for. It happened so abruptly that I almost took the guy as a threat. My safety was off, slack was taken out of the [mil-spec] trigger, and my dot was high center mast on this dude. I almost wasted him, thank God I didn't. I noticed what he was wearing and my brain caught up. While taking pressure off the trigger, I hailed an identifier question at him to verify it was him. We were good. I had enough training on that particular piece of crap mil-spec trigger that I could take some slack up on it in preparation to break a shot or not. That is not the case with all mil-spec triggers or single stage triggers in my experience. Had I a single stage trigger or a different mil-spec trigger, that dude might be dead.
My thought process is that a good two stage trigger would give even more confidence in any circumstance where one might need to "stage for a shot" but then wait to make a decision, particularly under stress.
I am curious on your thoughts though.

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JR1200W3 said:

I was actually taught that a 2 stage trigger was good when using non-duty light competition triggers on duty guns. Specifically in the instances when you might be indexing a sector of fire after engaging a threat target to engaging another threat target. The first stage allows your finger to be in some sort of space without being on the wall. But over the years as I've thought about that concept you are really splitting hairs in a situation where you might be pointing a gun at something or someone you don't want to destroy with your rifle on fire and finger on the trigger. It's is one rare scenario where you might find yourself in what is normally a throbbing red violation of basic weapons handling and gun safety. But what a shitty reason for a particular type of trigger.

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