Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles AR 15 Titanium Firing Pins Pros and Cons

I'm not sure these firing pins are worth the price. I know they are very light weight but Titanium burns and if you have a pierced primer you are out one expensive firing pin. Does anyone use these in their AR'S and can you really tell any difference in the dimple caused by the OEM pins when dropping the bolt on a round? Does these light weight eliminate this problem?

First time you pierce a primer... its toast.

You'd be better off with a Geisselle trigger with quicker lock time and hits harder than to pay for a paperweight....

I"ve chambered the same round probably 30 times at times in my hunting gun,the round that shot the deer last night at home, had been chambered all of last deer season, a big 4 day hog hunt, and all of deer season this season off and on, until last night...

I have never had a slam fire even tho the primer has a small dimple after dropping the bolt on a round. I have both the Timney and the Chip McCormick trigger and they are outstanding on my AR'S. Titanium doesn't have a good track record for repeated impact and i guess this is the reason Tubbs use a steel tip on his Titanium Speed Lock Firing Pins.

Pros: It costs more money. (You can brag about it.)
It's made out of titanium.

Cons: It costs more money.
It's made out of titanium.


Me, I just have regular firing pins in my rifles and several spares.

Tubb also is selling for profit.... if that makes sense. Some things you just don't need, I'd take a Geiselle trigger first, it'll cut the lock time and help accuracy, which Timney and McCormick can't match...

Concerning triggers,Shooting matches maybe , hunting i would say you couldn't tell the difference.

Hunting I could tell maybe even quicker... its shot once in a blue moon while I've shot some perfect type scores with a defective 7 pound trigger at the nationals before I could get it fixed again.....

I worked on a non adj ruger junker the other day, and its scary, I improved the trigger a lot but it still SUCKED, but the owner was tickled....

Lots of things depend on how anal you are. I could care less if the outside of the gun is covered in rust, as long as the tube was perfect and the trigger no less than great.....

Well, you're in luck, it's a Blue Moon tonight and for the next few days.

ya know after I typed that.... but I figured nah, no one would catch that bad timing......

The Ti pins are great in theory, but there's that tip burning problem that Jeff brought up as well as what seems to be insufficient mass to consistently light off th primers. Back when they were first floated, some Highpower competitors saw their accuracy go in the toilet with Ti firing pins.