Hell when I asked about the Tubbs everyone said “good luck fitting it, gotta make them fit”
bought one and yup, had to open up AX chassis to make it fit.
bought one and yup, had to open up AX chassis to make it fit.
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Sounds like a bad lot of steel, those top sears are the beefiest part of the trigger, if that cracked and broke I'd guess bad materials.
It was the sear lever on the inside of the trigger, but ya it’s not a small part either, sheared in half
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Broke after only 100 rounds sounds like some sort of defect. I'm sure bullet central/BnA are taking care of your friend - that's what matters.
I have three BnA Tacsport triggers and thousands of rounds shot between them with no issues. A BnA trigger breaking at ~100 rounds is a statistical outlier. If there was a clear pattern established of them breaking I would be a lot more concerned.
Well, I'm past 100rds on mine so I must be safe!
Yup they got him a new one, only lost out on match fees, travel and wasted time.
I'm beginning to think you'll never be satisfied with any trigger. Maybe you should design your own and be happy with it.
I’ve had one TT a jewell and lots of Timney triggers and my BixNAndys are light years ahead of them haven’t tried a geissele
Once you’ve had a bullet proof AI that hasnt hiccuped over 8000rds you get spoiled
I decided to go back to the Tubb trigger, it never failed me. I trimmed the cocking piece to alleviate some of the cock on close. Changed the angle a bit and it feels smooth on close. Had to increase firing spring pressure to get enough strike.
ran 100rds at the range, so far so good
i’ll run another 100 tomorrow to see what happens
ran 100rds at the range, so far so good
i’ll run another 100 tomorrow to see what happens
To bad they don’t make one in 22LR or I can’t swap an AI trigger on my Vudoo
although we’ve contemplated making a conversion to 22LR in my AI
For centerfire i won’t choose anything else but AI
hence why we built conversions in 223 & PRC/WSM, no need for another headache rifle
hence why we built conversions in 223 & PRC/WSM, no need for another headache rifle
Yeah, I'll rephrase. Not sure I'd call it good after 60-80 rds. Obviously stuff can fail anytime, but...
Seems to me stuff breaks most commonly at two points, almost immediately if there's an issue with how it was produced, or at the end of it's serviceable life when it's worn out. You need to verify your stuff works before you trust it enough to base a match/trip worth a couple grand upon.
I'm going to have to post this again...
No going into battle with unproven weapons!
That sucks, but stuff breaks. Don't think there's a trigger (or anything else for that matter) that hasn't ever broken.
If you are afraid of breaking stuff, you are in the wrong sport.
Good luck finding a trigger that had never broken.
I have an Anschutz trigger on a Win Model 70, so I think it might be possible to fit one to a Rem 700. Lower limit is about 10 ozs. unless there's some further modification I don't know about. Also, Grunig & Elmiger makes a trigger that looks to me like a clone of the Tubb design (or vice versa), and it certainly makes people happy. LRI (Chad) has worked on adapting this trigger for other actions, but I don't know about Rem 700. Call LRI. I just use the Jewell target trigger, which is safe at the lower limit of my desires.
Those break as well. I've seen a few AI's go down in matches.
The proverbial "bullet proof" AI isn't as bullet proof as some think. Great rifles, but not immune to breaking.
Luckily the roughly 20 that are in Sotex haven’t gone down. The only time I saw a few break was when they had that shit trigger from Xtreme shooting, AI Comp trigger, same company as Mod22. Other then that I haven’t seen one go down, but I’m sure it’s happened.
Maybe I got lucky never had an issue with mine, even with all the fuckery I’ve done to it.
im gonna stick with Tubb for a bit, its been the most hassle free. I already fitted the stock to it a while back and this new barreled action seems to work well with it. I’ll hold out till the TT 2 stage comes to see how that holds up.
Funny you say, one of the few I saw go down was at an RO match in South Texas. Completely stock AI AT, with original AI trigger.
It happens. My point is that a single anecdotal event of a product failing should not be a reason to avoid that product. If so, then you shouldn't be shooting AI rifles (I have more anecdotal evidence of AI's failing then you do of BnA triggers failing).
Likewise, every single scope company has had multiple failures of their products. So perhaps it would make you feel better for you to be using iron sights.
I'm not claiming that your lucky that your AI didn't fail. Most don't. A lot of custom rifles being built these days aren't suffering many problems either. The point is that every product eventually fails.
Personally I don't care if you choose another trigger over BnA, just don't let silly anecdotal evidence that's statistically irrelevant guide your decision.
Fair enough, it's a good trigger. I was never able to get the T7T to work with one of my rifles, but besides fitment issues, it seems like a really well thought out trigger with some great features.
I have a Mod 22 on a TL3 with around 3500 rounds. Zero issues. Best trigger I’ve tried. I also have a BnA Tacsport on an Impact with about the same number of rounds. Only had to clean it once when it got a little sticky. Found some dried solvent. No problems since. I’d run a Mod 22 on the Impact, but like the Tubb, it won’t fit the hanger.
On another barreled action it had lots of cock on close, had to really push the bolt forward to start to engage the camming lugs. On this one it fit way WAY better.
by the way who’s rifle was that at RO that went down ? Recall the name or what he looked like. PM me if you don’t want to share his info here. Curious to know what happened.
Cause the 2 or 3 I know of all had comp triggers.
that’s when the fire sale of comp triggers started.
that’s when the fire sale of comp triggers started.
Cadex dx2 is worth a look. Not sure if it was mentioned already.
A buddy has those in his shop, want to check them out also in the near future, or hopefully a customer brings one to install on a build.
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It's a shooting buddy of mine from the UK. He's a member here and it's been talked about a few times on the hide.
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