Single Trigger Question?

[JLoew]

I recently picked up a very unusual Parker DHE 16ga. The gun has a single trigger, the likes of which I have not yet seen. It has the selector in the safety with a small toggle for right or left. The barrel can only be switched when the gun is in the "fire" position. The gun is a very lightweight 28" 0 Frame gun in the 137k SN range. I am at a loss for the name of this system or who may have invented it. Please let me know your thoughts on this trigger. Thank you in advance!

[Dean Romig]

Very interesting - I've never seen that one either.





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[John Davis]

And it looks as vintage as the gun. Very cool.

[B. Dudley]

That is very cool. It is very much like the single trigger selector/safety used on many modern guns.

You gotta open that baby up and see what is going on inside.

[Jeff K.]

That's a new one on me.

[Researcher]

Not in my notebook of vintage single trigger patents.

[Bill Murphy]

Looks like a Beretta selector, maybe some kind of modern retrofit with a bit of aging. Brian is right. You have to look inside.

[John Knobelsdorf II]

Please show the trigger too.

Was it a Parker Bro’s. single trigger to begin with? So only the safety selector is a retrofit? Or was the trigger also modified (from double to single)?

This may not be illuminating, but will make me better informed if I ever come across another that looks like this example.

Also, what era of manufacture? Before or after the 1917 redesigned safety slide was being installed? I am guessing it is post 1917 by looking at the other details (like engraving style).

[Hammer Gun]

Josh , New to me also! interesting, Gary

[Bill Murphy]

Yes, please show a picture of the trigger blade itself.