Making of a Doubles Trap Gun

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

John, a very nice sounding and looking Parker and I'm sure you'll shoot it well. Thanks for sharing your mods which sound just great to me. Your combo of 20 and 30 points of choke are my preferred duo.

Like others I prefer double triggers on hunting and competition guns but I have to say I've owned good LC Smiths with Hunter Ones, Foxes with the Kautzky trigger, Ithaca NID's with the Miller type, Parkers with the later single trigger, and Model 21's. And while I shoot extensively I never had a problem with any of them except for a heavier pull on some which cramp my style because I tend to be a trigger toucher. I make it a point to pull through with any single trigger vintage American double gun. Maybe I've been lucky on getting good uns but I do check for function and signs that someone's been inside a single trigger gun before buying it (trigger plate screw slot, etc). Best of course is to make a deal to buy a single trigger gun while at an event and contingent on testing with heavier ammo for doubling, balking etc. Of course many on-line sellers won't agree to that which is a red flag for me.

I had a pair of DH 12 32” live bird guns , both left the factory without safeties . Think I sold you the pg one and the other was a straight grip gun that had been totally redone and during all that the do gooder decided to lighten the trigger . I shot quite a few times with that gun before I got in front of the bird . I like light but this thing was to darn light .

[MarketHunter]

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!

[Bill Murphy]

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.

[MarketHunter]

Bill Murphy does that seem like something I'd do? I sent it to Dan May.

[Harry Gietler]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

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!

Was it a Parker Single Trigger?

Harry

[John Davis]

Never met a single trigger mechanism I liked.

[Phil Yearout]

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

[MarketHunter]

Yes it was.

[B. Dudley]

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.