| JPK |
| (.375 member) |
| 14/04/08 12:58 AM |
Re: front or rear trigger
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I cannot realy subscribe to the right way wrong way thing when dealing with double trigger double gun. Especially shotguns.
There are many situations where one might have cause to fire the barrels in different orders as they are choked differently.
If shooting driven Partridge, then one might wish to fire the choke barrel first and then the cylinder/1/4 barrel as the birds get closer. Crossing Grouse may well be dealt with the opposite way around. Going away birds open first choke second, incomers the other way around. Crossers either way depending on where one wants to kill them.
So IMHO there is no point in training to fire a double only in one order. Better to be entirly familier with the gun and to use it the way that suits best.
Personaly for deliberate fire with a D rifle I prefer to use the rear trigger first as I prefer the trigger angle and find that I have more feel for the break than the straighter front trigger blade.
I think however that in the end it comes down to personal preference and familarity.
Regards
Bramble's point is a good one, as he states there are many situations where with a shotgun the rear trigger is the one to pull first. I'll add a few more commonly encountered on our side of the pond, duck and goose shooting over decoys, dove shooting, for examples.
{Off topic aside: On the other hand, I have a second set of barrels, all barrels bored 1/4 choke (about light modified for US readers), for my driven bird pair of guns since I find 1/4 choke to be neither too little nor too much for every situation. And on occasion I've seen a pair where one of the pair has the tight barrel fired by the front trigger.}
I don't have any issue with this with game gun weight 12ga shotguns. But I find that with the recoil of a big bore rifle, the rear trigger is right there for the second shot, but I have to reach forward for the front trigger.
Will, if a single trigger suits you, then you should use a single trigger. The reason that some makers don't want to talk single trigger is that that maker hasn't yet figured out how to make one 100% reliable, imo. And yes, I've seen several malfunctioning single trigger shotguns - but never a rifle since there just aren't all that many. The thin risk of a single trigger failing when that ele is in front of you and hostile is way too thin for concern, imo.
JPK