Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles TriggerTech or Timney?

I have more than a few of both. TT are pretty darn good. Timney is also pretty darn good. I recently sent a older (very) Timney 510 back for a modification and to be checked out and cleaned for not being able to get the pull weight down to 1 1/2 #. Sent a check with it. We'll trigger like new and my check came back. Told me it had a lifetime warranty. Hard to beat that.

Never had a TriggerTech but the Timney HIT is really, really nice in the 700.

Trigger Tech

http://www.shilen.com/productsTriggers.html

I’ve used these triggers for years. Surprised nobody mentioned them. Hasbeen

I have some of both.
Like both.
If I had to choose, TT.
Mine are all single stage.

I have had TT, Shilen, Hart, Timney, Rifle Basics, and a few others. I liked Rifle Basics, Timney, and TT best of the bunch. I am not sure I could tell the difference once they were set and in the stock.

I've really liked my Shilens, but I like my TTs even more.

Every aftermarket Trigger I've installed, I have liked. If they can get to 2 1/2 lb and crisp with little after travel, that meets my needs. I have used Timney, Basix, and others.

Of the two, TriggerTech. I'm not a big fan of Timney triggers. I don't think their standard trigger is significantly better than a Remington Walker, maybe a little more better than the replacement factory triggers. I've only got one Calvin Elite. I'm disappointed in it .. it's back in the box, maybe to go into something else later, maybe to be sold. I have TriggerTech specials in a couple rifles .. they're good. I have a Diamond in my Christensen .22 Ranger .. it's better than just good. However, the best of the bunch remains Jewell IMHO. I've got 3, I think .. maybe only 2. They are simply heads and shoulders above all competitors.

But then, I'm not willingly stopping at a pound or pound and a half, either. 4-6 ounces makes me happy. For a time I hunted with a 700 with a 2 ounce 40x competition trigger with no safety, just didn't chamber a cartridge 'til the barrel was pointed down range and I was ready to kill something. The lightest triggers I've used were on mid-late 1800s single shots .. some of those were fly-fart triggers.

Tom

A feature I really like in the TT is their ability to keep working when filled with gunk! Now, nobody gunks them up on purpose, but Time & Murphy's law can catch up to you! I once had a small piece of Sagebrush leaf hang up my Shilen Trigger in a Mod 700. I'm way too "O.C.D." for that noise! ha.

The only aftermarket trigger I had fail was a Trigger Tech Special. Quit resetting after about the 30th shot. Upon contacting TT they drug their feet on helping me out with it which was aggravating since it was brand new. Sent it back to the retailer I bought it from and replaced with Timney HIT. Very happy with it. And have a lot of other Timneys providing good service.

Been doing machine work most of my adult life. When (not if) you make something that is not correct, what you do about it is very telling about who you are doing business with.