Rock river national match trigger

Barkman

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I'm on the fence about one of these for a couple of reasons. I'd like some suggestions.

I've read about failures after awhile any experience with this?


I mainly use my Ar's for varmint shooting and plinking, but you never know what's coming down the road, how would these triggers handle in a battle situation?
 
I've had one in a sabre defence rifle for 10 years and it's never had one issue. about a month ago I built a new rifle for hunting and I install a rra na.match varmint trigger and so far I like it a lot
 
I would buy the RRA's varmint version instead. IMO its as good as anything out there. I only paid $62 for it when RRA was running a special. for that price if I have to replace it after a few years to what. I paid 4x that for a geissele that isn't any better.
 
I've never heard of failures. I have the RRA national match 2 stage with JP lightweight yellow springs, love it in my coyote gun.
 
Have them in all my ar's and have never read where there was any issues. One of my ar's has has alot of rounds through it in the last 10yrs with no issues.
 
I would be cautious about "reported" failures. One thing that many failures seem to have in common is incomplete information. Many people will throw something out on the internet without any back story and so inaccurate conclusions will be drawn from incomplete information. In terms of failures, exactly what was happening during the failure? Fail to fire? Inability to control the rate of fire? Who installed it? What else was done to the gun? There are a lot of things that can cause a trigger to fail. One common thing is for people who try to "dress up" their own triggers. There is a very fine line between a smooth trigger and an out of control trigger. Having done many trigger jobs, using a trigger jig, I still have to test fire them ALL. I had one recently that decided that it wanted to fire a round on trigger pull AND on reset. Made for nice double taps and a dangerous trigger set. Sometimes after a lot of firing a trigger will wear into the trigger pins and not pull of reset straight. Sometimes a new set of pins solves this and other times it means a whole new trigger set. Is this a failure? No. These are metal parts riding on metal pins with no bushings or bearings. They will wear out. They are not designed to last for ever. So having a failure after so many rounds may not be so surprising.

That being said there are a lot of fantastic triggers on the market today. In the old days the RRA 2 Stage was the benchmark. It is still a good trigger today.
 
I have NEVER heard of any problems with the Rock 2-stage triggers, I think they are great on my 20" Pred Pursuit, and 20" Coyote. I recommend this trigger to anyone with an AR.
 
I just installed a rrac 2 stage national match triggere it is crisp and breaks clean at a low pull weight. I think it will be a great trigger for a long time.
 
best trigger for the price out there, either the 4.5lb NM or the 3.5lb varmint. I have two in rifles now. One is in my hunting rig, not alot of punishment there. But the other is in my "Gun Fighting Rifle" and I tear that thing up practicing for when SHTF. I shoot out of cars, under cars, over fences, through windows. rolling around on the ground...you get the picture, and jerking the bleep out of the trigger, spitting rounds down range, never a problem. Nuff said.
 
I actually like the Bushmaster 2 stage competition trigger better than the Rock River - but it's virtually unavailable anymore. The Bushy is kinda a pain in the butt to set up, and isn't the most elegant design, but I prefer my 2nd stage to have a lower weight than my first stage, which the RRA does not do.

I do have a RRA Varmint 2 stage in my "go-to" rig, which gets a lot of traffic now because it has 3 uppers in different cartridges. I put JP springs in with it, I get 3lb 8oz total, 1lb 4oz first stage, 2lb 4oz 2nd stage.

I do intend to knock out the disconnector pin and put a lower weight 2nd stage spring into mine in the near future to reduce it even further. 2lb 4oz break for a hunting rifle isn't bad, but it's heavier on the 2nd stage than my entire Geis triggers run, so I'm hoping to bring them a little closer together for my muscle memory.
 
I like a bit stiffer trigger pull on my hunting rifles. I prefer to know when it breaks as apposed to being "surprised" by it. Sometimes you just need it to shoot when you want it to, not wait for it, or it break a little early due to too much pressure while tracking a moving target and not paying full attention to your trigger finger.
 
I happen to like my national match geissele trigger, well worth my money.. It actually replaced a brand new RRA national match trigger that was new, I just didn't like it.. I did however have a predator pursuit that the trigger was great... Better than their national match in my opinion.. I still have the RRA national match trigger just sitting around somewhere in a baggie..
 
I found mine to be absolutely reliable. That said I thought it was gritty and a bit heavy. I like single stage triggers anyways.
 


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