[mh454]

Specifically speaking toward the Beretta AL391. Thanks.

 

[Furner]

Its the release for the bolt. The little button on the right side.

 

[APEXDUCK]

A release trigger is found on some Trap guns. instead of pulling the trigger to shoot you pull the trigger to set it and then release the trigger to shoot. It is suppose to help keep from pulling off target when you pull the trigger. I have seen several over the years on trap guns and one sporting clay gun. These can be very dangeous if someone unfamilier with them picks up the gun to shoot it and pulls the trigger ???? nothing happens then they release the trigger and BANG. most of time the shoot the back of the trap house. I shot one once and it was so strange that I never ever even want to own one. If the shootgun gods gave me a new Perazzi with release trigger I would take it out have put a standard trigger in it before I ever even shot the gun. To me if you are pulling the trigger so hard you jerk the gun off target you need other help not a release trigger !

APEXDUCK

 

[Guest]

Forgive me if this is naive ...but a "release trigger" on a semi-auto seems really dangerous.. The concept of a release trigger seems strange enough to me, but to compound the problem by letting the gun keep firing everytime the trigger is release really boggles my mind.

 

[krazykarl]

Release triggers were originally intended for competition only and for those individuals who have been pounded enough by the recoil that they developed a horrible flinch. The release trigger faked the brain out from causing the body to flinch. Shotguns with these triggers used to have warning labels attached.

 

[Ulysses]

BerettaFan wrote: "but to compound the problem by letting the gun keep firing everytime the trigger is release really boggles my mind."

The release trigger fires only one time when the trigger is released. In order to make the gun fire again, the shooter must pull the trigger again to set it.... and then release it. The primary purpose of release triggers is to treat the affiction called "flinching". Release triggers usually work to cure (or at least greatly reduce) flinching, but in a small percentage of cases, they don't cure the flinching problem.