doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Double triggers?

I learned to shoot on a DT gun and much prefer it over a ST. But finding a modern gun capable of shooting steel shot with DT is very difficult. It seems that even the Turkish guns mostly come with ST. I have read that the Beretta 486 is available with DT, but I am yet to see one. I think they are mythical. I don't like the rib on them anyway.

Given that I'm considered a odd bird of sorts because I often use DT's at the range I'm a bit surprised on one hand at the number of replies to the thread, on the other what other type of users would a site called "double gun" be expected to have? :-)

I have and have had had many "modern" O/U's, pumps, and automatics for shotgun sports and for certain the logic of DT's where the "presentation" is unknown DT's are a real advantage. Try and tell that to a younger crowd!

I grew up with an old Savage (IIRC?) bolt action 20 gauge that had a wide choke and I always wished I could get a double with DT's. Those cool pics on the covers of mags with guys in the field with their dogs and SxS shotguns just hit home for me.

When my first DT equipped came along (the Fabarm) I sent it to my Dad in New York and he used it for turkey, after he passed I got it back.

The good news for users of DT's prices are very good for buyers.

Many comments above could use a reply but the one from B.Dudley is striking, "It makes you wonder how many people actually use the selector in the field on the fly" Personally I don't think many are THAT good to use the selector, crap, many kids are now using a high gun mount because they can't use a field mount and NEED that time to make the shot, use a selector? I personally don't see it happening. So many now use automatics that pumps and older double guns are at the ranges I go to getting rare.

And Canvasback, I appreciate your signature "Message to Garcia" what was then is still today.

Single, double, makes no difference to me.

This comes up every so often, and the passionate dissertations in favor of one style over another can be quite amusing.

They're your guns, your targets, your birds. Do as you please. Just don't preach to me that your preference is the one and only true and traditional way and stick your nose up in the air because what others do is so obviously inferior.

I don't give a rat's ass. I shoot them all, equally well or poorly as your perspective may be. They are all fun.

What I admire in a shooter is the ability to pick any gun off the rack, adapt to it, shoot it well, and not [censored] about fit, triggers, mid beads, glow worms, recoil pads, screw in choke tubes, swamped or raised ribs, barrels side by side or stacked, jam-o-matic, trombone, or the patent number.

Now I'm not saying I don't do any of the above, it's just that I find the ability to shoot anything that comes down the pike admirable. With me it's a work constantly in progress, but I do strive. Variety is half the fun.

all but one pf my shotguns are double triggers and all are sxs

Gads, what 's bugging you? Not once did I read a preachy account, unless YOU took it that way, jeez lighten up?

BTW, "observing" another shooters preference, and mentioning it is not preachy, it's an observation.

Geezo!

Perhaps I unloaded both barrels through the muzzle a bit hastily.

That was intended as a preemptive strike, not a reflection of this particular thread, which however is just a continuation of an ongoing discussion.

Double triggers are fine. As is a single trigger.

Start 'low gun' if you wish, another ongoing debate. Skeet isn't bird hunting, and even a proper 'low gun' hold approximates an ideal starting position not encountered frequently afield. Of course, birds don't start at 50 mph either nor do they fly a predetermined path.