Release triggers

stubblejumper said:
So how many people that use release triggers for trap, also shoot skeet or sporting clays? How many hunt? I can't help but wonder, if it would be awkward going back and forth between release and pull triggers?
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Typically with a low gun mount most shooters won’t have as bad of a flinch. It’s like shooting a pump gun no one thinks I have to pump this after each shot after a while.

Have seen release triggers used at skeet and sporting clays as well.

Was on a squad with a fellow that was in the process of running 200 straight when he got a slow pull put the gun down boom, bird in air that’s a loss sir. Ended up with a 199 at a provincial shoot and didn’t win a thing.

Lots and lots of shooters use release triggers for trap it’s very common.
 
Should note that release triggers have kept a lot of shooters in the game without them most would give up shooting.

I have seen flinches so bad the shooter pretty near walks to the trap house before being able to fire nothing enjoyable about that.

Everyone has a flinch of some sort if I were to put 50 shells in someone’s pocket with a random dud shell it’s pretty much a guarantee that the shooter will pull the gun down expecting there to be recoil. The gun was supposed to go off but didn’t the brain will not compute this fast enough not to jerk the gun in fashion.

My flinch is vision related if I cover the bird with the barrels I am toast that’s why I prefer my sporting clays guns to shoot higher then most.
 
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I would stop shooting rather try a release trigger, but that is just me. If that is what it takes for some to keep shooting, do it, and do it safely.

Back in the late 70s I met a guy who was experimenting with a release trigger. I am not sure if they were new then, or if someone can give us a history lesson on when, where, and who introduced them to shotgun shooting.

His rationale as to the purpose of release triggers was that it was a natural pointing act to open one's trigger finger as if pointing at the clay. Lots of people advocate holding the forearm with one finger pointed forward for the same reason.
 
I’ve never used a release, but I have shot NSCA events all around New England while squadded with people using release triggers, both in semis and over-unders, many times.

I’ve never seen any problems. Most people who use them have a long history of clay shooting and take it seriously enough to learn the proper way to use them before actually loading live ammo.
 
That could be tricky with a Ljutic, with the opening mechanism in front of the trigger guard and not accessible to the thumb on your trigger hand.

You could use the other hand, but the barrel would fall open pretty hard.

Westward1 said:
The normal process is to pull/activate the trigger and then call for the bird. If you do not fire, you hold the trigger and open the gun. I have a Buddy that has used one for years in autoloaders and O/U’s and you would never know he uses a release. If used properly and safe gun handling procedures are followed, they are as safe a a pull trigger. Every time I try it I am nervous as hell. I guess you have to get used to it.
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