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I've never heard anyone ('till now) claim an English single trigger was reliable...
Any of you guys seen the old Holland single trigger design in use? The one you push forward to get the tighter barrel? Mental masturbation, in it's purest form.
Even in the cold, I prefer a double trigger. I get around it with one of those giant mittens strapped to my front, that I can slip my hand out of as I mount the gun.
What is the reason, exactly, for a single trigger on a gun with two barrels? I have never understood that.


Best,
Ted

Double trigger, but I wouldn't turn a single trigger down...in fact, I have one. A DT is faster, if that's a concern (which it never has been for me.) The re-set on a single trigger can be a bit problematical if you use light loads, which I like.

But you don't have to move your hand at all with a single, and you do have to move your fingers with double triggers. Or I do, very slightly.

And I think double triggers look COOL.

For two barreled guns there should be two triggers. A single trigger is a mechanical contraptation waiting to fail. What was the motivation in the first place for someone to think that he wanted a single trigger, double barreled gun?

My birdguns have double triggers and I don't even have to think about which trigger will give me the choke required if a longer shot is required. But I was raised on a double trigger since age 12 (I will be 70 this week so lots of experience.) I do have a couple single trigger guns which I use mostly for clays when I am not practicing clays with my hunting guns. The Kreighoff M32 has approx 250,000 rounds through it without a problem, although that trigger isn't the nicest feeling it has never messed up. The other is a very new B Rizzini and I can't site enough experience with it yet.

For hunting, double triggers offer instant choke selectability. All other reasons for double triggers pale in comparison to the advantages of instant choke selectability.

I agree with others that single triggers are a solution to a nonexistant problem.

--shinbone

Drive over 1100 miles with one shotgun riding in the back to hunt for over a week in the middle of nowhere and see if you don’t decide upon double triggers. (Two guns on one stock).

I have sold several of my doubleguns, but of those that remain 3 have double triggers and two a single. I don't have alot of experience with the single trigger guns, but choke selection is made when the safety is pushed off. With the double trigger guns the safety is pushed off and the trigger is selected. If there is a time lag my experience doesn't reveal it. I will admit that, for me, having the two types can present a problem. With the double trigger guns I try to pull the same trigger twice and with the single trigger guns I reach for a trigger that is not there. I console myself by admitting that making a second attempt is more unlikely than the first and that the few "doubles" I've made on doves I always have trouble finding the first one down. Course I have even more problems anytime I'm involved with hooks and monofiliment. One thing for certain, you guys really worry me when you start talking about the possibilty of doubling. Probably going to give me a flinch! Perhaps I'll have to start using a pumpgun?

I need a single trigger, selective if possible, Miller is best. I lost my right eye 10 years ago after 60 years of being right eye dominant, and 50 years as a right-handed shooter. It is a fact that I can't sign a check with my left hand, and my left trigger finger is not connected to my brain as good as my right.

I sold off most of my double-trigger Parkers (all except a nice Trojan), and the SST's mitigate the difficulty of shifting from the front to back triggers, which are staggered for right-handed shooters. It is difficult for me to get off a good second shot with the Trojan, and even my SST guns sometimes forget to discharge when the connection between my brain and left pointer finger fails for some obscure reason. EDM

I am a real DT fan. My Miroku O/U has one trigger and it works well, but I don't seem to react well to releasing the trigger for the 2nd shot. All my other guns are DT, it is just so natural for me to go to the 2nd trigger, I don't even know I do it.

I like to shoot a number of different guns, with a DT it's always the same, the front trigger for right barrel the rear for left barrel. You don't have to ponder, even for an instant, how the selector works on that model gun... with DT's they're all the same.
Steve