Shooting double triggers

[ch]

One also, never tried two just read something got me to (no pun intended) wondering. Thanks Yoda's ch In case some of you are wondering who in sam hill yoda is he was the all knowing Jedi master. = smart fellow.

[edgarspencer]

I've had a few English guns with articulated (hinged) front triggers, but they were on small bore guns, making it less necessary to begin with.

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

A friend has a nice BH Parker with an articulating front trigger.

[Jack Kuzepski]

The first time I ever fired a Parker was over 45 years ago. It was a Parker Trojan in 12 gauge I was borrowing from a close friend to use hunting. I was in my very early teens and had only been hunting once or twice before with a single shot 20 ga. Being it was the first double I was going to shoot he suggested that I test fire it to get the feel of it before I went hunting. We went out to a vacant field and he gave me a pair of green Remington paper shells and I loaded the gun. So I asked him what I should shoot. He suggested hitting that sparrow flying straight away. So I threw the gun to my shoulder and, not knowing any better, placed two fingers in the triggerguard. After the shot(s) I found myself sitting on the ground, legs out straight, still with the shotgun to my shoulder. To say I was suprised is an understatement but trying to remain somewhat composed, I asked him if I got the bird. After about 15 seconds, he was able to breathe again from laughing so hard to say that he was so suprised to see me going backward that he didn't see the bird.
All of my SXS guns are double trigger guns but I learned a long time ago to use just one finger inside the trigger guard.

Jack Kuzepski

[Michael K. Burnley]

One of my Parker VH's has 30 inch barrels, both full choke so it doesn't matter which barrel I fire first. I have found that I can fire faster pulling the rear trigger and then the front. It just seems that my finger moves from rear trigger to front more easily than front to rear. I also realize that if you are shooting a gun with different choked barrels you need to shoot the correct barrel first for the situation. Mike
P.S. I haven't put both fingers in since years ago for the same reasons everyone else mentioned.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Michael K. Burnley

I also realize that if you are shooting a gun with different choked barrels you need to shoot the correct barrel first for the situation.

But it's still one heck of a lot easier to do than to try to 'select' one barrel or the other with a SST gun in the heat of the moment.

[Big D]

I dunno Dean - I think the safety/barrel selector on a 3200 Remington is the best possible system. I'm surprised no one has adapted the same cocept

[Dean Romig]

In my humble opinion John, it isn't as good as double triggers.

A very long association of exclusively shooting double guns with double triggers, for me anyhow, has taken any guesswork, in fact any thought whatsoever, about using an additional mechanical device to select one barrel over the other.

[todd allen]

Two fingers at a time?
I'm not clever enough to be able to do that, so I settle for one finger.

[Big D]

Dean - That's why the M3200 is so good - the act of taking the gun off safe selects the barrel. There is no " additional mechanical device to select one barrel over the other".