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Hi all, I was wondering what you all think about lock time? It seems that for some folks it's one of the most important aspects of shooting.
To be honest, I can't tell the difference between one gun and the next. I pull the trigger and bang. I'm more concerned about the target and the trigger pull. I can see if the time was like a second, that's a long time. But can you tell between 1/600 second and 5/600 second?
So...is lock time that important?
Best!
Greg
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Try a Flinchlock sometime, Greg. That will tell you everything you will ever need to know about lock time.
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Try a Flinchlock sometime, Greg. That will tell you everything you will ever need to know about lock time. If he is a real slow study, a match lock would give him an even better picture. Best, Ted
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On precision rifles and handguns it can make a great difference. That perfect sight alignment does not hold very long. On a shotgun, not so much. Shotguns are moving, rifles and handguns, the less wobble the better. For shotguns, I much prefer four and four and a half or better 3 and a half and 4 pounds. Seven plus on a shotgun I can't deal with. It just never wants to fire. As long as the trigger is under five pounds on a shotgun I would not worry about lock time.
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Now Buzz and Ted, you know I'm talking about shotguns, hammerless boxlock or Sidelock.
Also, to make things clear as mud, lets stick to lock time, not trigger pull.
Be good you guys!
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Ithaca advertised very fast lock time on their doubles. Don't know how much faster it was than on contemporary side by sides (Parker, Fox, Elsie, etc), but I would guess Ithacas must have been faster. Otherwise, they probably would not have touted it.
How much difference it makes . . . as noted above, on modern shotguns, probably not much.
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I suspect that there was little to no way to measure this with any kind of accuracy back then, and that this was mostly marketing hype.
Note that numbers are quite scarce in these ads.
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Lock time cannot by the very nature of shotguns being multi projectile weapons, play any substantial role in accuracy other than center/density of pattern.
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1931 ad  1912 ad 1/625th of a second lock time.  Pete
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Selling point to appeal to those who can be talked in to believing that it matters .
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