Trigger time with Dad

I was able to visit my father this past weekend, and we shot up a fair amount of paper and cans.  It was very enjoyable!

This also gave me time to compare the Timney trigger to the stock trigger, as well as look over differences between his Bushmaster and my DTI.

The Timney trigger is fabulous...much lighter and very clean breaking!  I did notice that the hammer spring is considerably lighter than the stock hammer spring, and found that interesting, but there haven't been issues with failure to fire, so this shouldn't be a concern.  Once I have the chance to save up for the Geissele SSA-E trigger, I'll be able to compare them to each other.  Without a doubt, the Timney is a huge step forward over the stock trigger.

One interesting difference I noticed between dad's Bushmaster AR (VA legal), and mine (NY legal), was the length of the buffer tube.  The buffer and springs were identical, however my tube was much longer...looking inside I noticed an aluminum spacer in the back of the tube, which made the internal length idential to the Bushmaster.  I'm suspecting that to meet NY laws for overall length of the rifle, the tube has the spacer in it to prevent shortening of the rifle by simply moving and re-pinning the stock along the tube.  This spacer results in a much heavier lower on my rifle compared to dad's.