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Why did I send my Hellion all of the way to Minnesota!?!
I recently bought my Hellion from a kind fellow Calgunner. It's great, a very well built and engineered bullpup with all of the normal bullpup quirks. The main limitation though was the stereotypical
crappy bullpup trigger. Everyone loves to hate on bullpup triggers because they are decidedly meh to terrible. I termed the Hellion trigger "meh", I've shot worse but it was a bit sloppy with a ton a takeup.
Once you get to the wall, it's still a pretty accurate rifle for a military rifle, I experience 1 to 1.5 MOA depending the ammo.
I came across coverage from 2025 SHOT Show with an interview with a company out of Minneapolis who were showing their Springfield Hellion Trigger Pack. You can mail in your trigger pack and for $225, they mail
you back an already breathed upon, stoned and polished trigger assembly. For $350, they offer the same trigger pack but you send them your rifle and they remove 90% of the take up and pre-travel and install the trigger pack.
I got on the waiting list right during SHOT and waited to hear from them when to send in my rifle to them. As you know, the linkage from the trigger back to the trigger pack is mostly what makes bullpup triggers so bad and these guys
have came up with a way to make the Hellion trigger so much better than stock, it's amazing. Springfield and HS Produkt have been working with them on some possible collaboration and they are a legit small FFL who are doing some
really cool things.
I was nervous mailing my new rifle through the Post Office, it was a PITA and the staff made me come back to deal with one of the managers on a separate day from when I first came in to mail it. Black Talon received my rifle in a week and they did the work and shipped it
back to me in four days, amazing turnaround. Dave Wiese, the owner/president of Black Talon worked with me and Dave's communication was exemplary, great guy. I received the rifle back last week and the difference was amazing. I measured trigger pull before I shipped
it with the stock trigger and it was around 8lbs with my Wheeler Digital Trigger Gauge. The trigger had 9mm of takeup and the reset was about 5mm.
After Black Talon did their work, the trigger pull is now 4-4.25lbs and the reset is about 2mm. Amazing. This trigger actually feels better than my ARs with the LaRue MBT triggers. I'm far from a trigger expert and I've never owned a rifle with a really high performance
expensive trigger but based upon what I am experiencing how, if you are willing to spend the money, you can own a Hellion with an amazing trigger. I will getting it out to the range to actually try it out but just feeling the difference and measuring the difference has been
impressive.
Shout out to Black Talon Tactical and Dave Wiese. I truly didn't think a bullpup military semi auto rifle could have this kind of trigger feel, but it can if you're willing to jump through the hoops. https://blacktalontac.com/hellion/
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crappy bullpup trigger. Everyone loves to hate on bullpup triggers because they are decidedly meh to terrible. I termed the Hellion trigger "meh", I've shot worse but it was a bit sloppy with a ton a takeup.
Once you get to the wall, it's still a pretty accurate rifle for a military rifle, I experience 1 to 1.5 MOA depending the ammo.
I came across coverage from 2025 SHOT Show with an interview with a company out of Minneapolis who were showing their Springfield Hellion Trigger Pack. You can mail in your trigger pack and for $225, they mail
you back an already breathed upon, stoned and polished trigger assembly. For $350, they offer the same trigger pack but you send them your rifle and they remove 90% of the take up and pre-travel and install the trigger pack.
I got on the waiting list right during SHOT and waited to hear from them when to send in my rifle to them. As you know, the linkage from the trigger back to the trigger pack is mostly what makes bullpup triggers so bad and these guys
have came up with a way to make the Hellion trigger so much better than stock, it's amazing. Springfield and HS Produkt have been working with them on some possible collaboration and they are a legit small FFL who are doing some
really cool things.
I was nervous mailing my new rifle through the Post Office, it was a PITA and the staff made me come back to deal with one of the managers on a separate day from when I first came in to mail it. Black Talon received my rifle in a week and they did the work and shipped it
back to me in four days, amazing turnaround. Dave Wiese, the owner/president of Black Talon worked with me and Dave's communication was exemplary, great guy. I received the rifle back last week and the difference was amazing. I measured trigger pull before I shipped
it with the stock trigger and it was around 8lbs with my Wheeler Digital Trigger Gauge. The trigger had 9mm of takeup and the reset was about 5mm.
After Black Talon did their work, the trigger pull is now 4-4.25lbs and the reset is about 2mm. Amazing. This trigger actually feels better than my ARs with the LaRue MBT triggers. I'm far from a trigger expert and I've never owned a rifle with a really high performance
expensive trigger but based upon what I am experiencing how, if you are willing to spend the money, you can own a Hellion with an amazing trigger. I will getting it out to the range to actually try it out but just feeling the difference and measuring the difference has been
impressive.
Shout out to Black Talon Tactical and Dave Wiese. I truly didn't think a bullpup military semi auto rifle could have this kind of trigger feel, but it can if you're willing to jump through the hoops. https://blacktalontac.com/hellion/
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