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Theres never anything written or any pictures of SXS,s with the Infallible trigger. Lots of pictures of guns with Miller trigger but never a mention of Infal. Do know they were from Lancaster, Pa and cost $25 in 1914.
Just wondered how long they were in business.

Nothing too identifiable about the trigger blade, but the selector is a sliding button mounted at the junction of the wood and metal of the top tang on the left side. It resembles a miniature safety slide. Don't know much more about the company, but the ones I have work OK, so far. There have been discussions about this trigger on this site and/or on the PGCA site. One of the PGCA members owns a gun that is pictured in the 1914 Lancaster brochure and another member owns a gun that was mentioned in a testimonial in the same brochure. What are the chances?

I have a very high SN'd H grade Lefever with an Infallible trigger. This gun was probably one of the Ithaca finished guns & I have no idea if the trigger was installed at Ithaca or if an after-market installation, but I suspect at Ithaca. It is just as 8-Bore mentioned with the little selector slide set into a notch in left of tang. One feature of these triggers is they simply alternate bbls unless the selector is manually changed & do not re-set to a given bbl on opening the gun. The selector itself slides with each pull of the trigger.

Yup, Miller, they will keep you guessing about which barrel is going to fire next. In the field or the blind, you can fire once, quickly open the gun and reload the fired barrel, and the tight barrel will be ready to fire. Not a bad idea for a goose gun.

There used to be a gentleman who posted on here who seemed to be an authority on early single triggers and was well informed on the Infallible trigger . I remember saying that Miller was the best and he was very unhappy. Perhaps he will jump in.
bill

The Lancaster trigger was offered on Charles Daly guns in the pre WW1 era, maybe later. I don't think we know where this was done.

I have an LC Smith 00 grade with the infallible trigger. I also was given a catalog from the early teens from Lancaster. I'll try to find the catalog and take some pictures if anyone is interested.

The Schoverling, Daly, and Gales (SD&G) catalog has a full page advertisement devoted to the Infallible trigger. (I can't recall if this was the 1912 or 1914 catalog. but I will check tonight.) The cost was $25 if I recall correctly. I'll see if I can dig out the ad out and post it tonight.

Ken

Just purely a guess and a similar facsimile, but this cat Alfred H. Worrest looks to be the designer of the Infallible(Oct. 16, 1911): http://www.google.com/patents?id=fd1jAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4 . Here is an earlier version submitted in July 1910: http://www.google.com/patents?id=1ap9AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4 . Hopefully some can set me straight and confirm or deny.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Worrest did indeed invent the trigger and owned the company that made them. Ithaca offered the Infallible single circa 1915 ish. I think James Tyson did a bit on this trigger in a DGJ article. A notch has to be cut in the top tang and I would think any engraving on a factory job would accommodate this notch. I had an Ithaca Lewis with after market installation as the engraving pattern was cut through.