Trigger: Flat or curved shoe?

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Hi all
I intend on replacing a factory REM 700 trigger with a Triggertech Special single stage trigger.

Flat or curved ?

Just a matter of comfort ?
If I have smaller hands, should I opt for a curved shoe ?

Thank you for your input.

Cheers
 
I prefer the flat shoe but all my bolt guns are in chassis with a more vertical grip. Typically a flat shoe is preferred with a more vertical grip whereas a curved shoe is preferable with a more traditional, swept grip. There's also an element of personal preference.
 
I prefer flat because:
- I can place my finger at the bottom of the shoe, which minimizes trigger pull weight force on my finger. In other words, this placement effectively makes the trigger lighter.
- I can index on the knub at the bottom of the shoe, which provides excellent consistency and feel of the shoe contact and placement.
 
rugbydave said:
I prefer the flat shoe but all my bolt guns are in chassis with a more vertical grip. Typically a flat shoe is preferred with a more vertical grip whereas a curved shoe is preferable with a more traditional, swept grip. There's also an element of personal preference.
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Right now my REM 700 sits in a Magpul Hunter chassis, which has a semi vertical grip....I'm kind of leaning toward a flat trigger, although the Special Triggertech doesn't have an adjustable knob.

Just ''pulled the trigger'' on a flat one.

Thank you all.
 
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One single vote for the curved trigger here. If you’ve been pulling curved triggers on pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns all your life what can I say. That one Triggertec with a straight trigger I put on my Vudoo feels ‘weird’. I WILL swap it out some day. Straight triggers are a ‘recent’ phenomena. For the last 100 years and up to 10 years ago 99% of triggers were curved. Fingers are still the same. I’ve heard all tge arguments to the contrary but I’m not buying into it. More of a fashion trend, just looks cool/different.
 
Mr Bill said:
One single vote for the curved trigger here. If you’ve been pulling curved triggers on pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns all your life what can I say. That one Triggertec with a straight trigger I put on my Vudoo feels ‘weird’. I WILL swap it out some day. Straight triggers are a ‘recent’ phenomena. For the last 100 years and up to 10 years ago 99% of triggers were curved. Fingers are still the same. I’ve heard all tge arguments to the contrary but I’m not buying into it. More of a fashion trend, just looks cool/different.
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Ultimately it comes down to comfort and what each individual shooter prefers. Personally I like flat for precision rifles and curved for everything else.
 
I run both curved and straight blade triggers in standard and vertical grip stocks...Don't particularly find too big a difference...Have had to file the trigger blade down on a couple flat blade triggers that wouldn't fit inside the trigger guards...Holy crap is the blade steel on Timney triggers hard.
 
Mr Bill said:
One single vote for the curved trigger here. If you’ve been pulling curved triggers on pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns all your life what can I say. That one Triggertec with a straight trigger I put on my Vudoo feels ‘weird’. I WILL swap it out some day. Straight triggers are a ‘recent’ phenomena. For the last 100 years and up to 10 years ago 99% of triggers were curved. Fingers are still the same. I’ve heard all tge arguments to the contrary but I’m not buying into it. More of a fashion trend, just looks cool/different.
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What do you know about shooting?? Haha You should give that trendy flat trigger to me! You don’t wanna be seen sporting a flat blade on a rifle. Think of the stir it’ll cause at the club.
 
Longstud said:
What do you know about shooting?? Haha You should give that trendy flat trigger to me! You don’t wanna be seen sporting a flat blade on a rifle. Think of the stir it’ll cause at the club.
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Careful what you wish for…I might gift it to ya !!!! I like my triggers like my girlfriends, curvy, not flat. Trigger Tec is only 45 minutes down the road, might order another trigger, curved… model 38DD.
 
Mr Bill said:
Careful what you wish for…I might gift it to ya !!!! I like my triggers like my girlfriends, curvy, not flat. Trigger Tec is only 45 minutes down the road, might order another trigger, curved… model 38DD.
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My birthday is coming up!! Just sayin and a Diamond is a rifleman’s best friend!!!
 
It comes down to personal preference in feel and consistency in finger placement.

I'm kind of indifferent on the trigger itself. Or rather I factor in the entire firearm application and trigger assembly mechanism over the trigger shoe design itself. I have flat, hybrid semi-curved and more traditional curved triggers. I'm more concerned with the trigger action itself (weight, reach, pre-travel, overtravel)
 
OP, there are all sorts of reasons to choose either profile trigger.

In most cases, I've noticed shooters need to acquaint themselves with the straight profile trigger after it's installed, especially if they don't have a similar trigger on other rifles.

Straight triggers on hunting rifles have a place, especially for shooters who do competition circuits in a serious manner, and they have straight triggers installed on their competition rifles.

Straight triggers were, at one point, an indication of an extremely light trigger pull weight, say 2 ounces or less.

This is no longer the case, as I see a lot of rifles with straight triggers in the field and on the range, installed on hunting rifles with 1.5+ lb pulls.

If you go the straight trigger route, practice will make perfect. I suggest you get or make up a snap cap for the rifle you want to install it on, so you can become comfortable with the profile, before taking it to the range or hunting.

Once you're comfortable with the feel, there really isn't much difference, unless your stock profile is already too long or too short.
 
bearhunter said:
OP, there are all sorts of reasons to choose either profile trigger.

In most cases, I've noticed shooters need to acquaint themselves with the straight profile trigger after it's installed, especially if they don't have a similar trigger on other rifles.

Straight triggers on hunting rifles have a place, especially for shooters who do competition circuits in a serious manner, and they have straight triggers installed on their competition rifles.

Straight triggers were, at one point, an indication of an extremely light trigger pull weight, say 2 ounces or less.

This is no longer the case, as I see a lot of rifles with straight triggers in the field and on the range, installed on hunting rifles with 1.5+ lb pulls.

If you go the straight trigger route, practice will make perfect. I suggest you get or make up a snap cap for the rifle you want to install it on, so you can become comfortable with the profile, before taking it to the range or hunting.

Once you're comfortable with the feel, there really isn't much difference, unless your stock profile is already too long or too short.
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To add to bearhunter's comments on the need to get comfortable with a straight trigger, I'll reiterate the importance on consistent finger placement (and overall hand grip).

With a curved trigger, one's finger naturally nestles to the near point in the curve to squeeze. This represents basically a fixed radius by which the trigger shoe pivots (for the majority of triggers other than 1911s and other straight back designs).

With a straight trigger, one's finger can squeeze the trigger from essentially the length of straight bar section of a given design. This affects leverage and effective trigger travel length if one's grip and finger placement aren't exact every time. Depending on firearm grip type and application, this may be easier with some over others to have reference points to build muscle memory. Even amongst the match shooter crowd where competitors have dozens of trigger shoe/blade/point options to mount to posts, most will have reference nibs to ensure consistency in finger placement to maintain the same feel.
 
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