I listened to the Q podcast with Haley and they talked about the trigger. KB mentioned one of the reasons they made it is because Geissele were too expensive for them to use in their honey badger and the AR Gold triggers they started with weren’t always fitting their lower receivers.
I like some Q products (particularly the suppressor) - but the honey badger and now trigger pricing is not for me - definitely going for the hypebeast pricing model i think.
KB did say that the trigger was extremely drop safe - and maybe it will be magical in every possible way. I was going to try it if it were a bit cheaper.
But since none of the stuff is combat grade anyway, you just buy their barrel and handguard and roll your own - and use a Geissele trigger for 1/2 price if you want to go that route.
$350 is a crazy price, especially for their first foray into market. BUT, they sold out in seconds so clearly they’re smarter then me. But still, top of the line Geissele is $110 less…
Whats the advantage of putting it on safe with hammer forward?
I think it’s that their customers have more money than brains.
Whats the advantage of putting it on safe with hammer forward?
Unnecessarily complicating something that “ain’t broke”. I like that the AR safety won’t move with the hammer down. I don’t have to mess with the weapon to check the status.
That’s my second (B) point. If they were buying Geissele triggers at 240 dollars each, then their trigger has to be max cost of 239 dollars to be cheaper. Which means that they are making 111 dollars a trigger. But we can be pretty sure that they were getting a better price on the Geissele trigger and their trigger probably isnt 1 dollar less than the Geissele. So again, they have a huge mark up on the trigger.
My thoughts exactly, Centurion Arms AST is $93.50. Granted I still like my Geissele triggers, but other than a competition gun or a designated SASS type weapon I don’t need anything less than 4lbs really.
Yes exactly - KB shouldn’t have tried to air some grievance about geissele because we know that if they would have cut him a better deal we wouldn’t need “the greatest trigger”. (Although I guess his point is that he’s so brilliant that he can say whatever he wants and we’ll just be lucky to buy his products)
Their narrative will be that they were forced to do this an they’re so amazing we just all get the benefit as the consumer.
Pricing has very little to do with manufacturing cost and almost everything to do with what the market will be bear. But he tipped his hand by letting us know geissele was passed over based on the cost to KB, not the end consumers cost.
Showed up about an hour ago and without going to the range yet I really like it. Nice packaging, super easy install, honestly might be the smoothest AR trigger I’ve ever felt. In general I usually prefer single stage triggers, SD3G has been my go to for years, but this has an even shorter reset and lighter overall pull weight. Any questions or anything, ask and I’ll try to answer.
The ONLY reason I would buy one is so my Honey Badger is “up to date”/complete Q. BUT, it would have to be some difference for me to justify that purchase for such superficial reasoning.