Lifter for Trap - Uneven Lock Wear?

[Woodcock survey]

I have shot 2 W.C Scott hammer guns at skeet and at station 1 am in the habit of shooting the back trigger , both would double. If shooting right then left no doubling. These are well worn guns and my thinking is over there lives the front trigger has had a lot of use and wear. Using the front trigger first cures the problem.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

I have shot 2 W.C Scott hammer guns at skeet and at station 1 am in the habit of shooting the back trigger , both would double. If shooting right then left no doubling. These are well worn guns and my thinking is over there lives the front trigger has had a lot of use and wear. Using the front trigger first cures the problem.

Reminds me of my first try with my Grade 2 lifter 10 gauge . On station one I shot the high bird with the right barrel left unloaded , shot the low bird with the right barrel left unloaded then loaded both for the doubles called for the birds pulled the front trigger and oh my two loads of 1 1/4,ounce #8’s obliterated the high bird and opened my eyes . Hadn’t thought to try the right barrel with the left cocked . As one would expect that’s crap has been fixed . Now EVERY time I get a hammer gun this gets checked both ways .

[TxHuntermn]

'Trap is enough of a mind game without worrying about stuff like that. "

I agree wholly with that statement, so for me, I am going to shoot the trigger that is most comfortable to me, and gives me more confidence. That gun has already probably fired exponentially more rounds from the right barrel with God only knows what loads. Unlikely a few hundred rounds of trap is going to make a measurable mark on the gun.

How many of you guys shoot anything but the bottom barrel of an O/U at trap?