CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE VALUE OF A REM 870 RELEASE TRIGGER MADE BY SCHWAB IN FINDLY OHIO?

Value as in money or as in utility?

I don't know what they cost, but release triggers are favored by some target shooters who believe that they give them some type of advantage over a conventional pull trigger.

As for me, I think they're a dangerous departure from the standard design.

I've seen only one case myself, used by an elderly skeet shooter. He had some neurological problem that prevented his pulling a trigger in the usual way when he wanted to do so, so he used a release trigger. In such a trigger, you pull the trigger when you start your swing, and release it when you want to shoot.

Such a trigger seems dangerous to me, but maybe it's the right solution to the problem of someone such as the man I saw using one.

Can't tell you the monetary value, but I can tell you release triggers are rather common amongst trap shooters. I shot one on a Ljutic for several years. Had to. I developed a bad flinch and about one out of 50 shots, my trigger finger would lock up (it's a subconcious brain thing). First time it happened I thought there was a mechanical glitch with the gun. Not so, it was a glitch in my brain. Eventually, went to the release trigger and that was the end of the flinch thing. It only took one or two rounds of trap to get the hang of it. After a couple hundred rounds it became second nature.

This flinch thing has been hashed over a zillion times around trap fields. I tend to believe the following: the flinch-glitch subconciously appears, 'cuz your body says "no, I don't want ot engage that muscle and get punched in the shoulder". A release trigger on the other hand, is a relaxing of a muscle, rather than a pull of a muscle. For some reason the brain allows that to happen without the flinch glitch rearing it's ugly head.

Please understand that in the course of a trap shooting season for an active competitor, it's nothing to fire 5,000 rounds of 12 ga. Even with light loads, that's a lot of shooting. And missing two targets out of 100 will put you out of the running at even local registered trap shoots. Missing one out of 100 because of a flinch is a bad thing.

On a trap field a release trigger is not that tough to master.