Gear Review: TAC-CON Raptor AK Replacement Trigger

By Nick Leghorn

The AK family of firearms was never built for comfort or accuracy, they were always designed to put a premium on rugged reliability and ease of manufacture. That’s great for American shooters who want a gun that goes bang every time, but it also means there are some issues. One of the chief complaints about the AK is that the trigger is fairly “meh”, and a lot of people believe that with a better trigger their AK could shoot better than it does. TAPCO makes a replacement trigger, but installation can be a pain. That’s where TAC-CON’s new trigger comes in: a drop-in cassette that makes an AK trigger job easy as pie . . .

There’s a reason that there are no drop-in replacement triggers for the AK series on the market, and that reason is the rifle’s safety. The AK series of firearms were manufactured to very loose tolerances, and as a result the latch safety on the various guns isn’t exactly the same size. Heck, even between guns in the same batch and same model number the safety isn’t always exactly uniform. This can be a problem when you’re trying to design a modern trigger for the gun …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns