jojo200517
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- Mar 22, 2009
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Well despite reading the reviews of how crappy the trigger pull was I decided I had to have a bullpup AK a few weeks ago. I got it and the other day I finally got a chance to go shoot it with a couple friends. I had fired 5 or 6 shots thru it just to verify that it would function beforehand and see how bad the trigger was. It wasn't that the pull is so heavy or so long but more of a combination of the 2 it felt like shooting a revolver double action to me.
Well we went out in my friends woods and I discovered a couple other things about it. I had read that the fore grip beyond the trigger gets warm, my friend's blistered finger after about half a mag says it gets slightly more than warm (turns out the bayonet lug sticks down into one of the vent slots almost out the bottom).
The heat didn't stop there tho. I knew I shot a couple shots 1 handed with it before when I tested so I said what the heck I'll shoot it some like that then to finish the mag. Well it turns out the trigger gets equally as hot. I couldn't get over 2 or 3 shots off before I had to remove my finger from the trigger due to the burning.
I can understand how the lug gets that hot its on the barrel, and I can work around that with a piece of clamp on rail and a vertical foregrip, but how in the world is the physical trigger getting that hot? All I can figure is it is up against the barrel and conducting the heat from it. The pistol grip or gaurd around the trigger isn't nearly as hot. Has anyone tried to shield the heat from the lower parts and direct it up? Has anyone else experienced the hot trigger?
Well we went out in my friends woods and I discovered a couple other things about it. I had read that the fore grip beyond the trigger gets warm, my friend's blistered finger after about half a mag says it gets slightly more than warm (turns out the bayonet lug sticks down into one of the vent slots almost out the bottom).
The heat didn't stop there tho. I knew I shot a couple shots 1 handed with it before when I tested so I said what the heck I'll shoot it some like that then to finish the mag. Well it turns out the trigger gets equally as hot. I couldn't get over 2 or 3 shots off before I had to remove my finger from the trigger due to the burning.
I can understand how the lug gets that hot its on the barrel, and I can work around that with a piece of clamp on rail and a vertical foregrip, but how in the world is the physical trigger getting that hot? All I can figure is it is up against the barrel and conducting the heat from it. The pistol grip or gaurd around the trigger isn't nearly as hot. Has anyone tried to shield the heat from the lower parts and direct it up? Has anyone else experienced the hot trigger?