how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel today we're going to be talking
about the franklin armory bfs 3 binary trigger if you're not familiar with what a binary trigger is
it's a trigger that fires one shot on the pull of the trigger and it also fires a shot on the
release of the trigger so every time you pull and release the trigger you get two shots bang bang
really appreciate that now are binary triggers legal the answer that is yes as of today as of
the time of this video binary triggers are still legal according to the atf because it's still just
one shot for one action of the trigger a rifle with a binary trigger is still semi-automatic
not fully automatic now i have installed the franklin armory binary trigger into this rifle i
have in front of me today and what it does is give you a third position to your selector switch you
still have your regular safe and semi-automatic position and it also gives you a third
binary position so no you don't have to shoot in binary mode all the time you can still shoot
normally with a binary trigger in franklin armory has made it super easy to install it's not much
different than installing a regular mil-spec ar-15 trigger now franklin armory also makes binary
triggers for several other firearms including 1022s and aks and everything like that i will
put a link to them in the description below if i can so you can go check those out if you don't
find it in the description you can find it over on our facebook page now a binary trigger definitely
takes a lot of getting used to getting used to controlling that rate of fire and the movement
of your trigger fingers something new so something you are going to have to practice to get good at
in a minute we're going to take this over to the bench and get a closer look at this trigger we're
going to weigh the trigger pull and things like that but first i'm going to roll in some shooting
footage you get to see my very first shots with the binary trigger now let's go check that out
party time
definitely take some getting used to we'll try again
now this was a lot of fun guys but i did have a couple issues that i need to let y'all know about
as i was running this trigger i noticed that after a short string of fire i would get a light primer
strike and i have to manually work the bolt to get that round out before i could start firing again
i don't think that's uncommon every rifle is going to be different it's going to handle this
a little bit differently but franklin armory has done a really good job of including a lot
of extras to help you really tune this and get it working reliably in your rifle they include
two different trigger springs one lighter and one heavier the same with the hammer spring they have
a light hammer spring and a little bit heavier hammer spring and that's what ended up fixing
my problem i swapped in that heavier hammer spring and i didn't have any other issues no
light primer strikes after that and it ran like a top they're also going to include two different
buffer springs one lighter and one heavier so you can really mix and match the different components
that they give you and working together with their customer service they do a really good
job of helping you figure out which combination of those parts will work best in your rifle
all right guys this is the franklin armory bfs3 binary trigger from the outside looks
just like your regular mil-spec trigger they do have a flat face version if you like the flat
face type of triggers now i'm just going to show you real quick how this trigger operates
real quick the rifle is clear you can see that does come with an ambidextrous selector switch
you have your regular safe position on safe you have nothing then on your standard semiautomatic
position there's really not much take up there at all this is a single stage trigger
not a double stage trigger so there's really not much take up there's just a little bit
and then the trigger breaks and then we'll reset it and you can hear that reset
very short very audible reset this is a good feeling fairly light trigger i will say it's not
quite as smooth as i'd like it you're not going to get the same feel out of this that you get out of
like your geissele ssa or anything like that but it is certainly better than a mil-spec trigger
like i said just a little bit of take-up and then your break now i haven't had a ton of
time on this trigger yet so i'm sure as i break it in it'll get even better of course you also
always have the option of polishing some of the connection points on the trigger if you want to
but i don't think that's necessary like i said it is a very good trigger certainly
better than mil-spec let's go ahead and check the weight with our lyman scale
two pounds 6.9 ounces
two pounds four ounces
two pounds seven ounces now i do have the lighter trigger spring in here guys they
do send two different trigger springs along with this and they advertise about a four pound trigger
pull so i assume with that heavier trigger spring you'd get somewhere around a four pound trigger
but in this rifle right now with the lighter trigger spring i'm getting somewhere around
two and a half pounds which is really good now let's reset it and check out that binary mode
flip over to binary now they do send along this little sticker that you can stick behind your
safety selector there that's just a safety precaution so that if anybody else picked up
this rifle they're less likely to accidentally put it into binary mode and hurt themselves so if you
want to use that sticker that's great so we are in binary mode let's go ahead and pull the trigger
the trigger pull does feel the same in binary as it does in semi-automatic we'll go ahead
and cycle the action and then you hear that that was the hammer falling a second time now
hopefully you guys could tell the difference in the sound there between that hammer falling and
the sound of the reset on the semi-automatic but let's just do that again so on the trigger pull
fire
and then on the release fire now you might ask what if you pull the trigger and then you decide
that you don't want to fire that second shot you can cancel that second shot simply by holding
the trigger back and switching your safety selector back to the semi-automatic position
you did see bigger move a little bit there but the hammer did not fall now i can release
and nothing so i can safely release the trigger without firing that second shot if i needed to
let me give you guys a quick look down inside here and it looks very similar to your regular
mil-spec trigger but it does have an additional part here and i'm going to point it out to you
it's right here beside the disconnect and it's called an ids you can see that
part moves back and forth what it does is it interfaces with that disconnect in binary mode
and it locks the disconnect in a position so that instead of resetting the trigger like it normally
would it allows you to fire that second shot now i'm not going to get too in depth into how that
mechanism actually works franklin armory has plenty of videos on how that mechanism works
i just wanted to give you guys a look down inside there so you can see what it looks like all right
guys that's it for the franklin armory bfs3 binary trigger i hope this video has helped you out guys
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