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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Timney Triggers for Backcountry Hunting

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

• Squeezing the trigger: the final act in pursuing an animal

• The critical importance of having a good trigger in a backcountry hunting rifle

• Introducing Chris Ellis, owner of Ellis Communications, who reps Timney Triggers

• Pronghorns in the fog: hunting tales and great triggers

• Defining trigger performance:

  • Crisp (like an icicle breaking)
  • Creep-free
  • Light
  • Consistant
  • Overtravel (what's that?)

• Replacing factory production triggers:

  • Fairly easy to do
  • Cost spectrum?
  • Timney's classic, legendary model
  • Timney's cutting-edge flagship model

• Tuning a Timney to perfection

• Timney's outstanding lifetime warrantee and customer service

• Heavy triggers and lost opportunities at elk

• Listen to the end for exiting news—and a discount code to get 15 percent off any one Timney trigger!

RESOURCES:

Timney Triggers

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a single defining action that we make in our pursuit of an animal, and that's to

0:06.8

squeeze the trigger. When it really comes down to it, that's the last personal contact, the last influence that you have on that

0:17.4

projectile headed down range toward the vitals of a big game animal.

0:23.0

Today we're going to talk about triggers,

0:25.0

and I have a really cool guest that's joining me,

0:29.0

who knows a lot about them.

0:31.0

But first I want to tell you something. Listen to the very end of this

0:36.8

episode. There's some news and an opportunity that I'd like you to hear about.

0:49.0

Also just a quick apology up front for the audio quality of the episode that's about to follow. We recorded this on Skype and as always when you're recording long distance over an internet connection

0:56.7

it doesn't provide the studio quality sound that I like. However the content is amazing. So without further ado, let's jump right in.

1:07.0

Today we're going to talk about triggers, and I've got a really good friend of mine on the line here today on Skype. This is Chris Ellis.

1:15.6

He's not just a friend. He's the marketing guru behind Ellis Communications and he reps he triggers.

1:24.0

So he's got a lot of history and knowledge in triggers.

1:27.8

Man, thanks for coming on the show today, Chris.

1:30.0

Well, man, I am honored.

1:31.3

I can't tell you how excited I am to talk to you and your listeners about hunting and triggers.

1:36.0

This is right up my alley.

1:38.0

Well, glad to hear it. Now, Chris and I really got to know each other in kind of a I guess funny hunt situation.

1:47.7

We got together for a pronghorn antelope hunt on the Wyoming Montana border right near the northeast corner of

1:55.4

Wyoming and we were actually staying in a little lodge on the Wyoming side

2:00.8

and then driving with our guide across the border into Montana to hunt each day.

2:08.7

And man that was the first time I became acquainted with that Northeastern corner of Wyoming and those foothills of the black hills and kind of fell in love with that country.

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