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Heckfire by ShootingSight: The Best Trigger for H&K & Clone Rifles (9mm / 5.56 / 7.62) (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-01-21 12:00:02 +0000 UTCOne of the shortcomings of H&K roller-delayed long guns has always been their triggers. As they come form the factory (with the exception of niche items like the PSG-1 trigger pack) they are long, heavy, and generally unpleasant. Good smiths can make them a bit better (I used a Bill Springfield trigger in my G3 for a while), but they are still tragically bad by comparison to modern AR triggers.
Well, ShootingSight has definitely changed that with their "Heckfire" (an odd name; possibly derived from "HK-Fire"?) drop-in trigger. It offers a very crisp, sub-5-pound trigger that can be used in any of the roller-delayed rifles made by HK, or their clones. The downside is price, at $400 - although frankly this is not all that much more expensive than a lot of the good aftermarket AR triggers available today. Along with the trigger press, you also get an assortment of selector levers that you can use to set up your trigger with left, right, or ambidextrous controls.
It is important to not that the Heckfire comes without the ejector lever, spring, and pin. You will need to either get these separately or just take them out of the stock trigger in your rifle and install them into the Heckfire module before you put it in the gun. The reason for this omission is that the ejector lever is different for each caliber of rifle - so shipping without one allows the Heckfire unit to be universal (and reduces the cost).
I've had two of these units from Heckfire (full disclosure: both were provided for free), and have used one in my G3 for most of a year now, including taking it to Finnish Brutality 2023. It has run perfectly, and it makes a serious difference in the shootability of the rifle. I have a second unit that is going into an SP5, and that will be getting some video coverage soon.
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Greg Harbican
Check out HK Parts, they have some professionally made lefty parts for 91 clones https://hkparts.net/all-parts/hk-91-g3-7-62x51-308-cocking-tube-new-lefties/
WT
I can second Ian's endorsement of shootingsight's customer service. I bought their x95 trigger and the first one I was sent had an issue and when I contacted him about it he sent out a corrected trigger immediately along with a prepaid return label for the first one. (Edit: and that corrected trigger is the tits, btw... I got the slightly heavier LE pull weight and with a lightning bow trigger, it's just tickety-boo!)
Mrgunsngear
HK rifle triggers need all the help they can get - glad to see more options
Joshua Samuels
Even for those of use who don't have your crippling disability, I'd love to know who can bend and weld up a quality custom G3.
Joshua Samuels
"Heckfire" as in "hellfire" but with "HECKler" and the common substitution of the word "Heck" instead of "Hell". It's a silly pun.
Stephen Bukowsky - Blind Squirrel Enterprises
Art Neergaard (the guy who runs shootingsight) is a great guy who's super passionate about the shooting sports. I've had extensive conversations with him out at the national matches and he's helped me out more then once to fix issues with my equipment. He also sells a line of reduced apertures for common US milsurp rifles which can be a game changer for those of us with less-than-perfect eyesight or just if you have difficulty getting a razor sharp front post consistently. That might be another product that many of your viewers would find interesting to learn about, as the optical theory behind eyesight and aperture gunsights is both fascinating and catastrophically misunderstood by the average shooter.
Forgotten Weapons
I don't know of anyone, but I also haven't actively looked.
Lee Harri
With Brethren Armament out of business, do you have any suggestions for someone or some company to do the left handed conversion?
Forgotten Weapons
It's a B&T lightweight bipod that clamps to a section of picatinny rail.
Kerwin Kerr
Ian, great post as usual! What kind of bipod do you have on your HK and how is it fastened on?
