Thumb Trigger!

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I rather like the idea!

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Pretty neat but that is one ugly grip.

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https://www.ironhorsefirearms.com/

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you can buy their whole guns or just the stripped lower

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I kinda like it. I wouldn’t mind having one.

Hint Hint…anyone?

Christmas is coming…I can send you my mailing address. :wink:

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A different look and feel and maybe will catch on, but right now at 400 bucks for a stripped lower, they are too proud of them.

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Exactly, and personally, I don’t like the idea of going back and forth between two different methods of trigger operation…muscle memory is an SOB to mess with (guess I’m just too old lol).

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I would try one but I wouldn’t buy one to try it. Why? Because I think it’s a solution in search of a problem.

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What a bunch of whooy! I can only see this as an advantage for a very select few that are missing digits or have other physical issues with their hand. Absolutely not a fighting rifle, strictly a novelty for the bench. When Karl says it works well I MIGHT try it…why on earth would I care what a man that hasn’t shot for 2 1/2 years has to say about it!!!

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Same here, i’m too old to learn to shoot a different way. I would try one if somebody I knew had one, but never buy one.

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:+1:

I like the idea from an innovation standpoint. It’s nice to see something new and refreshing brought to market.

:-1:

On the other hand (pun intended): I’m an old dog uninterested in a new trick. I also know at least two guys who probably wouldn’t ever be able to get their thumb in between the guard -not to mention what a gloved hand would do to confound the action.

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One of the arguments given is that it reduces side to side movement. In a rifle that’s minimal due to the many points of contact. Now in a handgun that argument might hold water but it could also raise other issues. Since it doesn’t exist in a handgun it can’t be tested.

I was also unimpressed with the groups shown by their test subjects at 15 and 25 yards. It was like all of them had never seen a rifle before.

Something isn’t ringing true about this. I just feels “off” to me.

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Not bad groups considering he hadn’t shot for 2 1/2 years! That tells you a bunch right there, the manufacturer knew he needed to push his wares to an inexperienced and uneducated in guns crowd to make a sale. Doubt they will be sending a T&E to anyone that actually knows something about shooting AR rifles or shooting in general for that matter.

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single long range shot platform for sure where you may be sending something down range every odd minute but as a carried and used fighting rifle it actually would be hard to carry in a ready to shoot. Almost like going to war with a featureless California special. The thing that adds stability in our grip is the fact we have opposable thumbs and unlike the trigger on a joystick our hand (fingers, thumb and all parts attached to the wrist) also has to support the rifle. I also see issues with going from carried wrapped hand grip to a “trigger” grip during a stress situation.

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Sorry but I think it’s a dumb idea.

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fixed that for ya :laughing: :laughing:

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^ I chuckled.

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Same here. All of my AR’s had the same drop-in trigger setups…before the :boat:

I have no desire to re-learn a new system and establish new muscle memory after so many years. However, I am curious about the design and would like to test fire one. The concept sounds cool, but it would require a lot of people to pull their thumbs out of their asses. :rofl:

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::grin:

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