My preference is for double triggers on a field gun. But, to say that all single triggers are unreliable or unsafe is just wrong. Beretta, FAIR, Perazzi, Kreighoff and many, many others have single triggers that are just 100% reliable. No pigeon shooter would ever walk to the ring carrying a doublegun that was not reliable, yet close to 100% of them shoot single trigger guns at flyers.
I've shot high volume doves in Argentina twice and run nearly 10,000 rounds through that 687 SP II Sporting 20 ga. at a rate of one shell every 6.7 seconds for the three-hour long shoots we had. Never a failure with the trigger, or with the ejectors. Guns get hot and dirty during a shoot of that intensity, but never a hiccup from the Beretta.
There is no single trigger that I am aware of that will ever equal the double trigger's ability to choose choke instantly. THAT'S the big advantage of double triggers in the field, IMO. Not reliability.
Now the caveat. I'm referencing MODERN single triggers, not the Rube Goldberg contraptions so many vintage American doubles companies developed and sold. No comparison there, again IMO. Too many shooters who are only schooled in old school single triggers lump them in with modern ones, and that's very unfortunate because it's like comparing A.G. Bell's first trans-Atlantic phone call to today's cell phone communication quality.
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