Alan. The way a B&A differs from other triggers is that the B&A has significantly less upward force on the cocking piece than any other trigger on the market, regardless of the trigger weight setting. The 2 balls inside the housing holds huge amounts of downward force while still using a very light reset spring. With a typical Jewell trigger you will have 4x more force on the cocking piece. Less upward force is going to translate into better accuracy. That's what Chris Harris of Bullet Central told me over the phone the few times that we talked about triggers. He told me that he did tests with other triggers and some of them had as much as 10x the upward pressure that the B&A has. I own 10 short range bench rifles and all but 1 wear B&A triggers. I bought a Flavio Fare' to try out and while it is very well made and feels great, it is narrow like a Jewell, (I like a wide trigger) and Chris said that he did tests on that trigger and it had more upward pressure on it than the B&A but not as much as a Jewell. I got hooked on them from one of the gunsmith's that I use Dwight Scott. He told me when he was building a new rifle for me in early 2013 that he could rework an older Jewell to where it was really slick, but he told me that as good as that was, it still didn't even come close to a out of the box B&A trigger. That's saying a lot.
Like I said the Flavio trigger still has more upward pressure on the cocking piece than the B&A.The Bn'A is an excellent trigger but don't rule out the Flavio Fare'....
I have both...and like I said...don't rule out Flavio Fare'
.Like I said. I have 9 B&A and 1 Flavio and I prefer the B&A. I don't like the Flavio's trigger width. It's as skinny as a Jewell. I just prefer the wider trigger.I have both...and like I said...don't rule out Flavio Fare'
I respect that Jim...it is all personal preference.
No you don't. There is just a different feel to the trigger when depressed. Hard to describe unless you've pulled one. The first words out of people's mouths when they pull one for the first time is either WOW, or HOLY SHIT!
The thing is, this trigger is a better mousetrap. In my mind my rifles are equipped with the best available trigger out there. Will it turn your rifle into some super shooting machine after you install it, No. It's the nut behind the trigger that's going to determine that. Look at Tony Boyer. He use to use Jewell triggers, he wouldn't use anything but a B&A now. Did it make him any better, NO. He's just the gifted shooter that he always has been. He would win with either trigger installed.
I don't know if I can honestly say the rifle is shooting better with a B&A vs a Jewell. One weekend I will shoot lights out, the next weekend not so good. Nobody can explain it. The conditions are never the same twice let's face it. Some days things just go your way for whatever reason. There are a million different variables that people keep guessing at. Nobody knows for sure what's what. Like I said you can't honestly explain to anybody why one weekend you kicked everyone's ass and the next weekend you got your ass handed to you. IMO the only way you could tell if the rifle shoots better is to take all the human error out of the equation. Shooting in a machine rest, in a tunnel, say shooting five 10 round groups each with each trigger then measuring the results.
