Jurjevic single trigger

kirbylawson · 11-09-2013, 05:10 PM

Does anyone have information on the Jurjevic single trigger? This one is new to me and I'm curious if they are any good and what time frame they were used. A google search has not turned up much.
Thanks for any input.
-KL

Robert Delk · 11-09-2013, 07:57 PM

Jurjevic was probably as good a gunsmith that ever plied the trade. He worked in the US in the 70's and 80's,I believe. I think he went back to Austria and died there. He is mentioned in one of the early 80's Gun Digests and they show some pictures of his work.

kirbylawson · 11-10-2013, 04:54 AM

Thank you for the information.
My interest is the quality and function of his single trigger and how a conversion may affect the value on a Parker. Looks like he converted various shotguns and worked on all.
-KL

edgarspencer · 11-10-2013, 07:21 AM

Joe Was an incredible master of gunsmithing. He was originally working in Duchess County New York when I met him in the 70s. His trigger is foolproof. I had one on a Francotte. A wealthy Texan moved him to Texas just to have him close by. He converted one of my drillings to shoot rimless cartridges by installing a tiny spring loaded pin in the extractor.

kirbylawson · 11-10-2013, 07:36 AM

Thanks Edgar.
Opinion on equal to Parker single trigger and similar quality with the Miller?
-KL

edgarspencer · 11-10-2013, 07:49 AM

I'm not qualified to say if one trigger is better than another, but I never heard of anyone ever making a Jurjevic trigger double. I believe he developed a trigger for H& H and was never paid for it. Not sure if it was the same design, but I had a Churchill 20 with a H&H single trigger that was neat. You selected the other barrel but flicking the trigger forward.
I never heard about him moving to Austria, but I believe he was from Czechoslovakia.

Kevin McCormack · 11-10-2013, 05:54 PM

I have never heard of Jurjevic, but an itinerant gunsmith from the mid-Atlantic region tried to develop a single trigger for 10 or 12 years beginning just before WW II, but could never get it not to double, so he left the trade and went into the wholesale furniture business. His grandson carries on the business today, Johnny Janosic, located in midland Delaware along Route 13 between the Brandywine Valley and the beaches. He even sells gun cabinets!

edgarspencer · 11-10-2013, 06:28 PM

You're too young to have heard of Joe Jurjevic

Bill Murphy · 11-10-2013, 08:06 PM

Way back when, I wrote a letter to Mr. Jurjevic concerning a gun he had built. I wish I could say I got a reply, but at least I have a copy of the letter.