Good morning, everyone, this is John with gun.deals, and today we're going to be taking a look at perhaps the best Geissele trigger, but certainly the cheapest Geissele trigger. This is the Geissele G2s.
Full disclosure on the Geissele G2s is that we have no affiliation with Geissele directly for this review. I personally am a dealer for Geissele parts, so while I did pay my own money for this trigger, we did get it at a reduced price. There's no specific affiliation for this video, but I did get it at a reduced price, because I'm a dealer for the parts.
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Getting into specifics on the Geissele G2s, this is their budget-ish two-stage trigger. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, a two-stage trigger is very simple, it has two stages, which we'll go ahead and demonstrate now. You have your first stage, which is basically your take-up, you hit a very hard, very defined wall. The first stage is fairly heavy, about 2-2.5 pounds, and then once you're on the wall that is in the second stage, and then you build about another 2-2.5 pounds, and you have a very, very crisp break. What that allows you to do is to take up some of the weight in the trigger already, so instead of having just a straight 4.5-5 pound pull, you can kind of cut that in half, and then you're on the wall, and then, you only need to add an extra 2-2.5 pounds to get that break.
For certain people in certain environments that will allow them to be a little bit more precise. Generally speaking, two-stage triggers are kind of known for being very precise and very easy to break that shot exactly when you want to. The trade-off there is they can be a little bit slower, so if we compare it to a single-stage trigger, this is a RISE Armament 140 on a 4.75 inch 7.62x3, but this is a single stage trigger RISE Armament 140, I believe, so you're on the wall right away, there's no take-up, you build pressure about 4.5 pounds, and then it just breaks.
The RISE Armaments have a very soft, very short reset, but it's very soft. The Geissele G2s, on the other hand, has more of a standard length reset, but to get that initial wall, about 2.5 pounds, you add another two pounds on top, it breaks, and then the reset is short, not quite as short as some other triggers, but it is very, very forced, which allows the G2s to also go fast, as well as be precise.
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Pricing on the G2s is inexpensive “for Geissele”, on the cheap end they're around 130 bucks and then a couple times a year they go on sale for $99, which for a very high quality two-stage trigger is not bad, so if we kind of go through that again, the dynamics of the trigger are fairly simple, so you have that first very hard, very defined stage, so you hit that wall about 2 – 2.5 pounds, add another 2 – 2.5 pounds to the total trigger pull, very short, very crisp break, no creep, no mush whatsoever, and then the reset is not bad, so it is a little longer than some other triggers on the market, very similar to like mil spec, and it's also very forced. The very nice thing about Geissele triggers is that instead of utilizing reduced power springs to get you a lighter trigger pull, they use proper machining techniques to deliver that.
Why the Geissele is a little bit cheaper than other Geissele triggers?
According to Geissele, anyways, so these ones here are spot magnetic particle inspected, so as opposed to like the full QC process that their other triggers go through, this is a little bit truncated, they are still inspected of course and the MPI tested, but just not quite to the same level as their other triggers. These are also wire EDM cut, which is a little bit more efficient in terms of cost versus some of their other triggers, so the machining style is a little bit more efficient in terms of cost, it is not quite to the same level of QC inspection as they're more expensive triggers.
Does that really justify an extra $100-$200 in some cases of price?
For me personally, not really, especially when we get into actually using the Geissele G2s, which I have used on a ton of different guns. This will work with basically any AR-15 and AR-10 as well, these are rated for all of those, I've used it on 7.62x39, 65 Grendel, 5.56 of course, 308, 6.5 Creedmoor, I believe, as well, I might have used it on one of my 6.5 Creedmoor uppers, but you get the point, it basically works on anything you can shove into an AR-15 or AR-10 style frame.
When it actually comes to using this trigger, most people are probably buying a G2s trigger or any sort of two-stage trigger to go out to a little bit of distance, or just to add a little bit of precision. If you've never used a two-stage trigger, and you don't like them, there's no point in picking one up. This is definitely a preference thing, some people don't like two-stage triggers whatsoever, they just want a standard mil-spec trigger, totally fine if that works for you, that's awesome, mil-spec triggers are completely usable as long as they're of an acceptable level of quality. Then you have single stage triggers that are designed to go fast and have a super light pull, that sort of thing, which some people will prefer those two two-stage triggers.
The Geissele G2s, for me, does a really good job at both things that I want to trigger to do. It is very easy to be precise, I believe I've taken this trigger out to 700 plus yards on multiple guns, basically anytime I'm going out to distance on an AR-15, if this lower is available, or the trigger is available, not in another system, I'm going to be throwing it in that gun, because the trigger is very good at being precise.
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With 7.62x39 I'm almost always using enhanced firing pins, and that is something that you kind of need for a lot of those really crappy hard primers that they stick in steel case 7.62x39, but with this trigger never had a light primer strike, so it is certainly a safe, effective, reliable trigger in that regard, but it is also easy for me, it interfaces well with me in terms of precision shooting. When I'm going out to distance, I don't feel like the trigger is a limiting factor whatsoever, it's usually me that's a limiting factor when going out to distance, and then if I want to shoot quickly, it absolutely does that, for me personally.
It is not the cheapest two-stage trigger on the market, it is, in my opinion, the best Geissele trigger because it is the most affordable, and the one that you can probably find most easily. It is a two-stage trigger, so if you don't like two stage triggers, this isn't going to be your thing no matter how nice it is, you're still going to prefer a mil-spec, a single-stage nice trigger, so on and so forth.
At the end of the day, if you're looking at picking up a Geissele trigger, and you want a two-stage trigger, I think that the G2s is absolutely something you should at least try out, and they are the least expensive Geissele trigger, so even if you don't like it throughout the least amount of money.
