Part of the reason you're seeing more interest in the ancillaries is that its easier to buy all the other stuff than it is to learn the rifle. People come on line and want to participate. But they can't shoot as well as they'd like. So they've got a little extra money and willingly spend it so they have something to talk about on line.
They'll talk about anything but the hardest deal. The actual off hand shooting of the rifles or pistols. Oh sure you see a few, but those posts don't usually garner too many replies. That's a more elite group. And don't confuse them with the rested shooters. Rested shooters shoot for the groups the
rifles are capable of, not so much what the individual is capable of. But in the daily quick reading we all do, we translate those rested groups to the shooters themselves. Its easy to do, and of course, it takes skill even to shoot a rested rifle well. They absolutely should get some credit for what they've accomplished. But there is a well defined line if one is paying attention to what's being said. I say give credit where credit is due but know in your own mind there is a difference between rested groups and offhand groups. In other words, congratulate for good shooting (no matter how its done) but keep your mouth shut about what you really know lol. Its just not worth it to point things out on the internet and all it does is start pointless arguments. Egos around airgun forums seem to be especially fragile. I don't know why, but I'm not here to ruffle feathers either.
Finally to your point. Which is a good one I might add.
You can break down triggers to two general schools of thought.
The first is that a trigger should break cleanly. Some refer to finely adjusted Rekord triggers as "breaking like glass". I know what they mean, I've got a rack full of Rekord triggered air rifles. People will go into detail about length of first stage, pull weights (the most common comments), overtravel and first and second stage weights. What they're talking about is stage resistances. How much does one want in order that the trigger doesn't pull the shooter of the aim point?
The second school believes that any abrupt (even light) resistance whether the trigger is a single or two stage is to be eliminated. This group looks for a pull so smooth, so entirely unobtrusive that when the gun goes off it surprises the shooter. Problem is, to have that kind of uninterrupted sear disengagement also means the shooter has to be statuesque once the sights are on target.
There are certain targets which are pies, essentially, that subjugate what the shooter is doing wrong into slices. You put up the target and fire a ton of rounds. If you're consistant and place all your shots in a particular slice, you can read the target and it'll tell you what it is you're doing incorrectly. I love these targets.
There's more, but others can share it if they like. Basically, I'm holding off to see if you're going to do the work part and get.. a slice of the pie
Harv
ps: hey, they did that to
me a long time ago hahaha tradition I guess
Tell us how things go. They totally sucked for me when I got started in this game... so don't feel like you're never going to get it. You will. Trust me.
). After messin' with'em for a day, they were easy, predictable and sure. It's not what the trigger pulls, it's what the trigger finger is used to pulling. You can learn to use any trigger safely, but a fellow who's only shot 6# gamos' his whole life will find even a 3# diana trigger to be a "hair" trigger.