how to check lock time

[oc shooter]

speaking of triggers and accuracy I always read about the pull weight but never the lock time. is there a way a shooter can measure this? talking to a retired army sniper the other day and he said that 1 of the reasons the army went with the M24 remington is that not only did it have an excellent trigger it's lock time was better than any other stock rifle out there any thoughts?

 

[dsdmmat]

What is Lock Time?

What is Lock Time?

www.trrobb.com

looks like you need a timer capable of thousands of a second and a camera capable of 7000 frames per second.

 

[spat]

What is Lock Time?

What is Lock Time?

www.trrobb.com

looks like you need a timer capable of thousands of a second and a camera capable of 7000 frames per second.

Could possibly be done with a good microphone and some free audio software.

As long as you can isolate the 2 sounds in the graph you should be able to come up with a reasonable estimate.

You would have to take some care with microphone placement and stuff though.


If that won't work, you could probably rig something up with an Arduino or some other microcontroller cheap.

 

[oc shooter]

wonder why there"s not more discussion about this? I know all lot of shooters using flint locks and cap locks talk about it but but modern shooters don't seem to be much involved

 

[dsdmmat]

wonder why there"s not more discussion about this? I know all lot of shooters using flint locks and cap locks talk about it but but modern shooters don't seem to be much involved

There are a lot of people who own guns. There are a lot less people who actually shoot, even less people who reload, even fewer people that build guns, even less make their own guns and less than that who care about things like lock time.

Very few shooters Know what lock time means and even less of them are at the skill level where can take advantage of 8ms decreased lock time. Most are concerned with minute of deer or minute of man accuracy levels.

That is most likely the reason you don’t see discussions on this topic everywhere.

 

[spat]

wonder why there"s not more discussion about this? I know all lot of shooters using flint locks and cap locks talk about it but but modern shooters don't seem to be much involved

Lock time in most modern firearms is very short.

There isn’t a lot to be gained. Even an electrically primed weapon with EBW primers that is essentially 0 lock time can only be about 10ms better than an average AR.

That is not the case with the older designs.