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🗓️ 7 March 2025
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Ever wanted a great trigger in your lever-action rifle? This episode we're joined by Chris Ellis, who has hunted from the mountains of West Virginia to the plains of South Africa with a lever-action rifle. Chris is a trigger man, and we talk through the crucial advantage that a crisp, reasonably light trigger provides in the field, along with the blessing that Timney's new lever-gun triggers are to hunters. We swap cape buffalo and American buffalo-hunting lever-action stories, and share favorite models and cartridges and bullets.
Plus we discuss the new drop-in trigger models Timney recently introduced for Browning X-Bolts and Ruger American Gen II rifles, along with installation ease and processes. This episode was a ton of fun, folks, just yarning and sharing opinions and useful hacks with a good old boy from West Virginia. ENJOY!
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0:00.0 | long time ago. You could say it was even, not just in the previous century, but in the previous |
0:05.6 | millennium. That's right. The 1900s, my brother had a bead on a bull elk with his old |
0:12.4 | sportorized 1903 Springfield. And he pressed the trigger and pressed it some more and then pressed |
0:19.6 | it harder. And he knew if he got excited |
0:22.5 | and yanked that thing he'd missed that bull but it was a military spec trigger and it was not crisp |
0:29.7 | and it was not light and that bull walked behind a bush before he could increase his squeeze |
0:35.7 | enough to get that rifle to go off. |
0:37.8 | I met him at the foothills of that mountain later that night when we both hiked out. |
0:42.0 | And he told me, I'm going to get on the phone first thing in the morning and order a timny trigger. |
0:47.5 | Because I had one in mine and he decided he needed one. |
0:51.6 | You never know, folks, but reason tells us he would have got that bull if he'd had a |
0:56.7 | good crisp trigger in his rifle. Today, I've got an old friend of mine. Chris Ellis on the phone. |
1:03.3 | Chris handles all of Timney's media relations, so he puts up with high maintenance people like me |
1:08.9 | and comes on and tells stories now and then. |
1:12.7 | And Chris, it's good to see you, and thank you for coming back on the show. |
1:16.8 | Thank you for this opportunity. |
1:18.4 | I love to talk triggers. |
1:19.6 | I love to talk hunting, you know, as much as anybody knows. |
1:22.5 | I'm a lifelong avid hunter. |
1:24.5 | It's just a phase I'm going through that that tell my wife, it's only been 40 years |
1:28.2 | I've been doing this. It won't last much longer, just another 40 years. That's right. Yep. |
1:34.1 | And then you'll enter another phase when you cross over into the happy hunting grounds, |
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