Reply With QuoteAnother display of enormously desirable rifles I have long marvelled at how extensive and eclectic your collection is it must surely be unique.
ATB.
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The best known airguns (post WWII) with the DST are the Walther's and the rarer Weihrauch's.
All of these triggers where available in firearms before WWII and there where many left over after the war.
These DST triggers are independent units separate from the actual "sear unit" ,so it was relatively simpel to adapt a standard trigger and make it suitable for the DST.
There are some small differences between models used.
Weihrauch:
Walther:
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Frank
Last edited by frakor; 16-06-2021 at 09:40 AM.
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Another display of enormously desirable rifles I have long marvelled at how extensive and eclectic your collection is it must surely be unique.
ATB.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
So you pull the rear trigger to set and then ‘touch’ the front trigger to fire?
Matt
Muddled
Originally Posted by ptdunk
Or you can use the rear trigger with more weight to fire.
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Think you mean the FRONT trigger?Or you can use the rear trigger with more weight to fire.
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Frank
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I thought it was the front trigger?Or you can use the rear trigger with more weight to fire.
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World pork pie juggling champion three years straight
And just for variety, there's this beautiful clockwork trigger mechanism with very fine adjustment.
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Dave
Smell my cheese
Muddled
Think you mean the FRONT trigger?
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FrankTHAT depends on which way your holding the rifle.
Yes, of course I do mean the front trigger. My bad. Busy day.
Founder & ex secretary of Rivington Riflemen.
www.rivington-riflemen.uk
Airgun Alchemist, Collector and Scribe
That clockwork trigger takes some beating, but the most ingenious set trigger system I have come across was used almost 200 years ago, in the Kuchenreuter spring pistol:
This neatly provided the set trigger principal with a single trigger. To set the “hammer” you push the trigger forward until it clicks, and then the trigger can be used in the normal way by pulling it back. It can be set to a hair trigger release if required. So in this case, there is no need to worry which trigger is which!
The mechanism is ingeniously simple and involves only the trigger, three other moving parts and two springs. However, like all ingenious inventions the principal is not easy to figure out even when presented with clear pictures of the disassembled unit, as I was by a generous collector. After a struggle, I did manage to get the following working replica made, a struggle which left me full of admiration for whoever first designed it.
Dodgy Diana User
I was going to ask if any airguns had ever used a single set trigger…
Any others?
Great post, Frank.
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Not quite what's required.... I have a DST on my Brocock Herald... You push the trigger forward and press the blade in the middle, I wish there more airguns available.
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Beautiful selection.
The right hand gun on the top picture, is the trigger that tiny thin piece of wire?
If so that’s a real hair trigger...
Cheers,
Matt
World pork pie juggling champion three years straight
Exactly that.
Dave
Smell my cheese
Dodgy Diana User
I’m assuming now (never heard of one) that no “modern” (post 1945 - and earlier) air rifles used a single set trigger (SST), while some cartridge firearms did.
I’m inferring that a DST was easier/cheaper to make than an SST, while any possible advantage (are there any?) of an SST on, say, a deer rifle, was irrelevant to air rifle match shooting. Which makes sense.
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