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I have two old DT shotguns. One is a 60's vintage Fabarm O/U with Mod /IC fixed chokes and the other is a Miroku 500 SxS with IM/Mod chokes.

When I went to the local 5 stand range the other shooters are intrigued by them, and note that I do pretty well. Even on the skeet range despite the rather tight chokes and from a low mount I regularly take all 25 birds with either, but do better at trap with the Fabarm.

Anyone else use DT's for shotgun games?

Yep. Rare that I go to a range/club for "shotgun games" (we have two Lincoln throwers on the property), but anytime I do, it's always DT. But then, I'm almost always with other guys also shooting a twin barrel in an obsolete gauge with tubes laid out like my eyes. But then, I've always been. A little. Different.

Mike

That's all I shoot at Sporting Clays and Skeet. I hunt with them and its practice for hunting as far as I'm concerned.

Intrigued by double triggers. That is funny.

Shoot a SxS and they will be blown away.

gnappi
Welcome on your first posting
Yes the double triggers just seem right
Mike

Possibly an age thing but I don't own a double barrel gun with a single trigger O/U or SBS, I have tried them but having used double triggers from the very start of shooting a single trigger is not for me. Also I like to choose what choked barrel I want to use at the time I mount the gun, with just one trigger to pull the aged brain gets confused messages because my trigger finger cant find the one my brain has selected.
Oh the joys of growing old!!!!

Welcome, gnappi.

I enjoy double triggers as that is what I first learned to shoot a shotgun with. As many of my S x Ss are choked tighter in the left barrel than the right I often shoot the rear trigger/left barrel first, then go to the front trigger for the second shot. Incoming doves are especially suited to that, taking the first bird as far out as possible, then trying for a second bird closer.

I also enjoy a good single trigger, and can switch back and forth between the two without conscious thought.

It is interesting to see someone who has always shot a single trigger try a double trigger gun for the first time. Almost every one will try and pull the same trigger again, even when they have been instructed ahead of time. OTOH, when I taught my grandson to shoot flying I started him at age 8, the same age I was when I started, and with the same type gun, a double trigger .410. He never had any trouble getting onto double triggers and can switch between a single trigger gun and a double trigger one now, with no effort.

SRH

Routine can be the the bain to almost anyones existence. I did it last weekend while shooting sporting clays. I was shooting a new gun and trying to get used to that. On the second station the second bird on a report pair came out broken. After clearing the trap, i had forgotten that i had already fired the right barrel. I ended up trying to pull the front trigger again. It wont be the last time.

In regards to SSTs, a lot of vintage doubles have the barrel selector in an awkward or downright unsafe location. It makes you wonder how many people actually use the selector in the field on the fly. I have always said that there is no more convenient selector than simply moving your finger back to the othet trigger.

I don�t think many, if any humans can use a barrel selector with a SST in the heat of battle. In my opinion, barrel selectors are superfluous for hunting, but useful for sporting clays where you know the shots ahead of time and can get set up for those shots ahead of time.

Funny hearing a Miroku and a Fabarm being described as "old".

All my SxS are DT. I would be unlikely to buy a single trigger SxS.