Savage Accu-Trigger

[JustSomeDude]

So are the Savage Accu-trigger guns good? I want a 30-06, and the prices on them seem pretty reasonable.

[Bongos]

SAvage accu-trigger is quite impressive not to mention the quality barrels they have on their guns. Savages in my view are the best rifle for the money. I'm more into Remington 700 because there are so many aftermarket parts and upgrades you can do to it. Savages rifles are limited, though .5 -1 MOA there isn't much to upgrade other than changing the stock and from what I heard, they now come with Mcmillan A2 stock..there you have it.... :sniper:

[cajungeo]

I just bought a Savage 10fp in .308 with the accutrigger. It came set at 2 #, but can be adjusted down to 1 1/2# by the gun owner. Don't need a gun smith. I haven't fired mine yet except with snap caps. It is a sweet trigger.

I read an article awhile back where the owner of Savage told his engineers to design an adjustable trigger from 1 1/2# - 4 1/2# which can be adjusted by the gun owner. After a while the engineers came up with the Accutrigger. Then he climbed up the balcany that over looks the shop. He then orders the engineers to design it so it won't go off when I drop it from here. They came back and he droped it from the balcany. It didn't go off. This is the current Accutrigger.

I'll see if I can find the article.

[Coyote]

Yes they are good. Just purchased a Savage 10FP-LE1 and with the AccuTrigger it shoots like a dream.

http://www.shootingtimes.com/longgun_reviews/STsavage_0813A.jpg

The AccuTrigger project got started several years ago when Coburn decided he wanted Savage rifles to have the same reputation for out-of-the-box trigger precision as they already had for out-of-the-box accuracy. A lifelong serious hunter, Coburn was as frustrated as every other rifle shooter in the world by the liability constraints that inhibit the availability of top-quality, adjustable trigger mechanisms on regular-production hunting rifles. Most factory-production firearms triggers today have very heavy pulls. No secret why: No manufacturer can afford the legal risk of producing firearms with light or adjustable triggers that might accidentally discharge. Of course, some factory rifle triggers do have screws to adjust sear engagement pressure or trigger travel/overtravel; on others a gunsmith can polish component interfaces to reduce sear engagement or smooth the creep. However, unskilled adjustments to a factory trigger can create an unsafe condition and will usually void the factory warranty, and many riflemakers who sell rifles with triggers that are mechanically capable of adjustment factory-seal all the adjustment mechanisms with glue or epoxy so that any tampering is irrevocably evident.

To Coburn that was unsatisfactory. He called Savage design and industrial engineers Scott Warburton and Bob Gancarz into his office and gave them a simple mission: design a perfectly crisp, creep-free trigger for Savage rifles. Sometime later they came back and showed him a new mechanism. He tried it and smiled. "That's really good," he said. "Now make it user-adjustable, from six pounds down to a pound and a half." They looked at each other and headed back to their workshop, thinking: "Wish he'd mentioned that before." A few more months went by, and they were back with a perfectly crisp, creep-free trigger mechanism that was fully adjustable with a single screw. "That's really good," Coburn said. "Now go make it so it's absolutely safe and won't jar off no matter what." This time they left his office thinking: "Really, really wish he'd mentioned that before." For the next several months the project kept Warburton and Gancarz awake at night and spoiled their concentration while bass-fishing or watching football on weekends. But they finally came back with a mechanism unlike anything ever done in a rifle before and put it in Coburn's hand. He worked it, felt it, smiled once again, and then threw it off the top of a 20-foot-high forklift with the manual safety off. It didn't fire! Coburn shook hands with his engineers and said, "If I'd told you at the outset everything I wanted, you'd have thought I was crazy."

[hylander]

I have a Savage 12FV .223 Heavy Barrel with Accutrigger.
Best Trigger I ever felt. Mine is set at 2.25lb.
This gun shoots Win. Varmint ammo .75"
My handloads average .4-.6"
I love this Gun.
One thing I don't like is the Stock, to flexible.
But after bedding it is fine.

[BlenderWizard]

so, is that little "blade" that sticks out of the accu-trigger a safety mechanism like on Glock triggers?

[Dorkface]

i went up to check out the accutrigger today and man i love it lol. and yes that little blade thing is like the glock safety. but i think there is still another saftey and that the blade thing is to stop discharge if dropped. i like it!

[Crosshair]

BlenderWizard

so, is that little "blade" that sticks out of the accu-trigger a safety mechanism like on Glock triggers?

Sort of, it's funtion is to block the sear in case it jared enough (from being dropped) to fire the gun, that blade, prevents the sear from traveling enough to fire the gun. If you look in the pic of the trigger, the blade "catches" the sear so the gun doesn't go off. Once you move the blade back, there is very little additional movement required to fire the gun. It is probably the best trigger you can get anywhere. :D

[adaman04]

I didn't like the looks of it at all when I first saw it, but I have definitely changed my mind. They are awesome and shoot oh so smooth.