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Anybody had experience with the Holland single trigger. Looking at a Royal with the single trigger. This one allows you to push it forward and shoot the left barrel. But only that barrel as I understand.

Yup. You don't see them that often. I didn't like it.

Best,
Ted

From my copy of the 1904 H&H catalog, page 10, "Royal Hammerless Patent Single Trigger Gun", they clearly state that it enables the gun to be fired right-left or left-right, with the left barrel being fired first by pushing the trigger forward.
If you're not getting the right barrel to fire after firing the left first, I would suggest you need to get it serviced by someone qualified.

That trigger, like more than one English single trigger, was not exactly a roaring success. It has been a long time since it was used, no doubt for good reason.
Someone "qualified" to work on it might be harder to find than a gun so equipped.
A wonderful candidate for conversion to double triggers, in my humble opinion.

Best,
Ted

Oh sorry I have not tried the trigger. A friend told me that Holland single triggers when pushed forward it only shot the left barrel and only the left barrel. I have not tried myself as I have only been looking at it.
So it may work fine.
Just asking if anyone has heard of problems with the Holland single trigger.

Main problems are -
1 age and wear
2 people who have no idea what they are doing working on them
3 having the gun restocked or being renovated and
having the metal work let further into the wood

I don't have any direct experience with H&H single triggers but H&H most certainly did make what was called a "semi selective trigger" which allowed the user to fire the left bbl only & not resetting to fire the right bbl.

In the Donald Dallas H&H book the patent for this trigger is listed as the "Henry Holland & Thomas Woodward Semi Selective Trigger" & initially had an external selector but I know that some H&H "semi selective triggers" used the method of pushing the trigger forward to select the left bbl.

FWIW the Dallas book lists 8 different single trigger patents that H&H held but does not discuss which were actually used in production.

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The Holland Firm has been renown for many things over the years, including unfortunately the legacy of their multiple early Single Trigger attempts, none of which proved even a close competitor of the one provided by T. Boss & Co.