Tirod said:
At present binary triggers are still priced prohibitively, as they are nearly the same cost as the entry level guns they can be installed in.
I'm not sure what you mean here, exactly. I'm not familiar with many binary trigger systems, but the Franklin Armory ones are less than $450. And they could be installed in ANY AR-15, whether it also cost $450 or it cost $4,500.
Tirod said:
... I'm not of the mind they will be "better" in certain situations. One basic requirement to be effective in use is the presence of a large number of targets. The military casually states it needs to be a "target rich environment." That so rarely happens for the civilian shooter that he has to seek out the situation - like, hog hunting. Otherwise, seasonal limits apply - so needing the trigger vs wanting the trigger is a very wide divide.
I disagree, and I have some experience to back that up.
I used an AR with a binary trigger in a shoot house during a match last month. The capacity to get two hits on a target per trigger operation was easily employed and quite nice. Very predictable and controllable. In any situation where one would have trained to "double-tap" a target, this would make total sense. If two hits are a good plan, two near-simultaneous hits per pull of the trigger, both printing to POA, are certainly not a hardship! And if you're of a mind to pull the trigger twice, that's four well placed hits instead of two.
There would be no requirement for a "large number of targets," any more than you'd need to have a "large number of targets" to perform a DT or Mozambique on a single threat target.
If we limit ourselves to hunting scenarios, this
probably doesn't apply. The effects are not very helpful at the distances most of us shoot a deer, and would probably be a bit of a dangerous liability. (Though I haven't fired one at 100 yds, to see what the spread of hits really is off a good rested position.)
If we limit ourselves to conventional, open-terrain, military warfare, where automatic rifle fire is often used for area denial and keeping an enemy formation's heads down, that's somewhat difficult to envision as a "civilian" use case.
But if we think of how a trained user fires a submachine gun or assault rifle in urban/house-clearing type operations, squeezing off aimed two- and three-shot bursts at selected targets between 0 and maybe 15 yards away, a binary trigger will absolutely be an asset.
Here's a simple video (with too much talking) that illustrates a decent shooter putting very controlled pairs on a moving target with a binary trigger AR:
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