Which trigger fires which barrel

It simply saves you having to move to the second trigger. Having said that these setups are rare. There is no real protocol as to which barrel to fire first you select to meet the occasion. On out going shots I frequently choose the open barrel first followed by the tighter barrel since the bird will be getting further away.

On incoming birds as I. Pass shooting doves I frequently shoot the tighter barrel first as often the bird will simply fly past you as opposed to flaring off. The best option is to choose the. Appropriate choke and don't miss most important don't get caught up in choke selection and lose your concentration on the target. As Ingwe said it isn't rocket science. Joined: Nov Annapolis, Md. Once you get used to it you should be able to pull the front trigger and instead of letting go of it with your finger and re-inserting the finger back into the trigger guard onto the rear trigger, just slide it off the front one smoothly back onto the rear one.

Handy for quick doubles, such as doubles on skeet station 7, or simo pairs in sporting clays. That's why the front trigger is often given a soft radius along the length of its right side, to allow the trigger finger to easily slide off and back.

Factories back in the day would special order odd ball choke arrangements in doubles. Ie: the right barrel being the tight one. Not to mention the abundance of choke reamers out there, and guys who know how to use them. So don't automatically assume the right barrel is open and the left tight- the pattern board is your friend when you buy a new gun. More than a few discerning guys wanted them choked that way.

Admittedly that is rarely to be found in hardware store-grade guns though. Then there were the guns that were choked identically in both barrels- usually guns meant for waterfowling and choked full and full, or open-and-open for close quarter bird shooting. The "name" factories would also special order at no small expense triggers set up for left handed shooters, with god knows what choke combinations.

NW Alabama. Yep, just pick which trigger-barrel you want to shoot for that particular shot. Tighter chokes for longer shots and more open chokes for closer shots. Just don't put two fingers in there. I did that once as a kid thinking I would just shoot whichever one I wanted. When I pulled the first trigger, it made the second one pull too.

It will get a kids attention. Joined: Aug East Texas. While it is "generally" true that on a double trigger SxS shotgun that the front trigger fires the right barrel usually the less tightly chocked and the rear trigger fires the left tighter chocked barrel Some older shotguns at least two L.

Smith's that I know of are set up so that the front trigger fires the LEFT barrel while the rear trigger fires the right. I know this from experience It normally makes little difference as these older guns are in effect chocked full-and-full. However when I was maybe 15 it cost me to assume that every shotgun had triggers set up "normally". In those days it was quite common at least where I lived for many to hunt through the woods "meat" hunting for any game that might appear.

When deer season was open, we would place a buckshot load in the right front trigger barrel and a squirrel shot load in the left. If a deer or rarely a hog came along This puts the gun out in front of average-framed shooters right into the sweet spot for balance and follow-through, and it works quite well for lanky, long-necked fellows like me.

Dragging my wife into an early evening, I coaxed her to fling several dozen clays for me. The little Bobwhite G2 swung like a live thing, and when I managed to follow-through properly, it left nothing of the clay targets but dust hanging in the sky. The gauge Bobwhite G2 is light enough to be really responsive, but that light weight also exacerbates bad habits. Shooters prone to stopping their swing when they trip the trigger like me will need to focus on good technique and following through.

Informal patterning on a clay bank suggested that the gun is regulated to put a cloud of high-brass No. Trigger pull on my gun is stout but not overwhelming. The front trigger breaks at 5 pounds, 3 ounces; the rear at 5 pounds, 6 ounces. A good upland gun begs to be field-tested on birds, and my good friend Colton Heward managed an invite to a dairy farm plagued by Eurasian doves—an invasive subspecies with no season and no limits here in my home state of Utah.

Shortly, the barrel became so hot I had to be careful not to touch it. Because the Bobwhite G2 fits well, there was little or no adapting curve, and I was cleanly knocking birds down—including high fliers and at least one clean right and left double. Give a Gift Subscriber Services. See All Special Interest Magazines. All Shooting Times subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets.

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Recommended Posts. Posted February 4, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Vlad G Call CZ? Old School Parker Posted February 5, To be honest my switch to side by sides and double triggers left me doing just that on several occasions. Like so many of us, I grew up shooting single trigger guns, a youth model at first, and eventually a Remington I digress that if a person wants to shoot a pump, I would suggest making it the first gun one learns how to shoot, as like riding a bike, you never actually forget how to cycle the action despite years of time away from them.

That being said, I was very much accustomed to single triggers and the switch for me took some time. My switch came as a result of wanting to shoot the broke down old American side by sides I was buying at gun shows and restoring to function.

It was nice to be able to take that 20 gauge Stevens out and shoot some woodcock with it, and in fact, it was the gun I learned how to shoot two triggers on. There was just something about carrying a side by side and I was willing to sacrifice a second shot to do so.

And, I think it made me a better shooter. Knowing I may not get off the second barrel made me take my time with the first! As far as actual mechanisms are concerned, double triggers tend to be simpler. Trigger mechanisms consist of moving parts, and it could be argued that the fewer moving parts to affect the action in question firing the gun , the better. In cocking a double gun, a spring is compressed, storing energy.