using double triggers
 

With hunting season over, I enjoy weekly trips to the gun club where I blast at clay targets with old shotguns, none that are really choked for skeet. When shooting doubles I often use the back trigger which shoots the mod. or full barrel for the far bird and then the opener barrel for closer bird. Since I did not grow up shooting doubles I consider this training to choose the barrel needed while hunting. Just wondering if I am alone doing this or do other double shooters do this.

You have the right idea. I do the same when shooting skeet although I don't shoot skeet much any more. I do shoot a considerable amount of 5-stand and am constantly changing which barrel I shoot first. I go a step further and always shoot low gun and only make my barrel selection while mounting the gun. Good practice.

It's just part of the learning curve. I very much dislike shooting a double with a single trigger. I find it very troublesome and simply can't get used to having to use some sort of selecting device to do it. Give me double triggers any day! Quick easy selection I rarely even think about anymore.





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The club where I shoot is putting in a 5 stand course now. It will be fun. I start with a low gun just before the season opens. Maybe I should start with a low gun all summer,but at my age enjoyment is the name of the game. If I improve it is just a plus.

I forced myself to learn back to front trigger and glad I did. Normally I mount trigger finger beside the guard sliding into the front trigger as the gun comes up. Back to front put trigger finger inside the trigger guard lightly touching backside of the front trigger slide back to the back trigger as the gun mounts .

2nd shot I like to re mount and it's a natural to mount finger outside the guard then onto the front as the gun comes up.

Works for me.

William

Dean I ordered a RBL 20 with a single trigger,beavertail,upgraded wood etc. Nice gun killed my share of birds with it. But, while hunting prairie chickens and sharptails I got tried of birds flushing at 35 yards and I am standing there with improved shooting first and mod. shooting next. I can not work the selector while shooting. The gun is now called the mistake gun. Now when out west I carry double triggered a 16 GH choked imprv. and full. Last fall in Montana some sharptails tried the flush at 35 trick and they rode to Mississippi with me.

I'm just like Dean said. When your used to shooting double triggers most of the time and then you shoot a single trigger gun it completely messes me up. I find myself going for a rear trigger and then a misfire or missing the shot.

Most of my doubles are full full or full mod so I just shoot front / back trigger since it's shooting ridiculously tight patterns in both barrels at 21 yards anyways.

Today I shot my Lefever D grade that is choked CYL and full so I was using the back trigger first on shot going away and following up with the front for the incoming shot.

I noticed myself I needed to remind myself which trigger to choose in the first couple rounds but after that I was unconsciously bringing the gun up with the finger on the correct trigger needed for the respective shot.

I grew up with double trigger doubles , however the first quality double I ever owned is a Greener boxlock tang safety with a bastard Miller trigger , bought that one at the ripe OLD age of 14 . I dunno why but I've never had an issue switching back and forth between doubles with single or double triggers . Same can be said for horizontal or vertical double barrels . Before I meet my maker I'd like to get my hands on one of the early Superposed with factory double triggers , had a few in my hands just never bought one .

I still think the barrel selector/safety arrangement on the Remington 3200 is the best, safest system going. The act of taking the gun off safe selects which barrel will shoot first. And it works well with gloves in cold weather

Of all the SST guns I have used, the 3200 and the Ruger Red Label were the easiest to use... But I still much prefer a gun with double triggers.






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