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Unread 10-25-2024, 12:14 AM   #21
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Gawd yes, get rid of all the single trigger guns. I just spent pushing $1000 to get a single back in working order. Never again!
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Destry, I "feel" for you. Unfortunately, you probably had a gunsmith or gunsmiths who didn't know what they were doing. Our guns are too important to let someone experiment at fixing them.
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Bill Murphy does that seem like something I'd do? I sent it to Dan May.
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Never met a single trigger mechanism I liked.
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I shouldn’t comment since I’ve never owned or even shot a two-barreled gun with a single trigger. The idea never appealed to me: two barrels, two triggers. Just seems right
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Yes it was.
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Single triggers on a double gun are the dumbest thing going. They are only for the folks who cannot go from shooting one trigger to two triggers, or for those who think bells and whistles mean something.

Most barrel selectors on single trigger guns are just plain unsafe and are never really utilized in the field or on the fly situations. There is no more reliable or quicker a barrel selector than just moving your finger back and forth to a different trigger.
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Single triggers on a double gun are the dumbest thing going. They are only for the folks who cannot go from shooting one trigger to two triggers, or for those who think bells and whistles mean something.

Most barrel selectors on single trigger guns are just plain unsafe and are never really utilized in the field or on the fly situations. There is no more reliable or quicker a barrel selector than just moving your finger back and forth to a different trigger.
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Now I’m sure I have a sickness

Well, I might as well enjoy it, just send me all of those awful single trigger doubles, I will put them to good use, and I promise I’ll take excellent care of them

I guess I only own 1 single trigger Parker, I think I’ve only had issues with one single trigger gun, that sporting a Kautsky

I’ve never had much trouble with my NID single triggers, never enough to make me hate them for sure
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Single triggers and beavertail forends are for guys who shot automatics till they were north of 50 and now wanna be double gun men.
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