Trigger fingers and bounce question

[outcast]

Is it possible for someone else to walk the trigger of your gun and have it bounce or run away, while it is legal for you? Would walking it really hard, compared to really lightly make a difference? And what about technique? I notice some players walk their fingers all the way forward and all the way back, while others seem to walk it in a very short motion, keeping the trigger in that sweet spot I guess you could say.

What do you guys think? :puzzled:

[MadSpeed]

As long as the opto board is registering your walking of the trigger, I dont see how . how hard you walk it would matter.

[bobjim]

well today when I played that all I do basically is walk everytime I shoot and I usually get about 10 to 20 balls off every time or for long burst at the beginning of the game I usually throw 40 to 50 balls by walking and I got my TR on 1. I don't see where it has much bounce even though thats suppose to be the most bounce setting but I did hit 21 BPS today so I dunno and I have only seen 1 angel ever starting running away after this guy was raking it and it had a DM4 board and eyes on it so thats one of the reasons and he prolly had some kind of mod done to the trigger.

[mamba_juice]

some people are better at exploiting bounce then others, there was one person at an event in europe that, according to 95% of the people there, could get ANY gun to bounce (pumps excluded l.ol)...i can usually get a solid two shots off of what the refs call a "legal" gun, whereas there are people who cant get any gun to bounce.

[Emmit]

bounce is all subjective, and that's where the NPPL is trying to correct the problem by use of their machine. Instead of allowing a ref to make a judgement call on your marker it is being left up to a programmed machine that will deal with every marker the same way. While I think said machine still has room for improvement, I do think it's better than some kid sitting at a chronograph saying X marker is bouncing and can't go on the field because he can find a sweet spot by holding the marker at some awkward angle that you'll never see in a game.

[outcast]

I have another question.

How can someone setup their guns to be legal, without having use of, or their own robot? Let's say someone set's up their trigger and it shoots one shot per pull like the rules state, and it's not shooting after you stop pulling, and as far as the player can tell it's all legal. Is it still possible that the NPPL robot could still get it to bounce, and therefore DQ a team?

[Emmit]

Honestly I cannot say. Unfortunately you are correct, without access to the same machine that will be used to test your marker you have no real way of knowing 100% that your marker is legal. Perhaps you just never hit that sweet spot until in this one game, and a ref grabs your marker and off it goes to the test machine...you think you're safe but then bam 11 shots come out when only 10 should...say bye bye to the entire team. There is a problem with this, but on the other hand the NPPL has at least taken the subjectiveness of bounce away. So I say a step in the right direction, but at an awkward angle;)

[outcast]

:) Cool. It will be interesting to see where it all goes from here. Tourny specific boards maybe?