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Mac,
Interesting thoughts on single triggers but the fact that world class clay target shooters rely on single triggers for their competition double guns would surely suggest that quality single trigger mechanisms do not suffer from reliability problems.

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4seventy, what you say is true, and I think single triggers are very reliable, and have several on double barrel shotguns. However, most clay target matches are held on very clean ranges where contestants have a truck load of spare parts, and tools to make their guns right, if they don't simply change to another shotgun. Addtionally, if the trigger does fail, then the gun is out of commission totally. One other thing, not many clay targets stick a horn up your butt if you gun doesn't work.

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Also two quality seperate trigger mechanisms on a two trigger double does not guarantee that if one fails the other will always still operate.
Jack Lott had total failure of a Holland Royal when part of one lock broke and rendered the rifle unshootable.

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Sutherlands Elephant tally was documented where Taylors was not, and as Taylor points out himself, Sutherland would not have continued to use the single trigger system if he was in any doubt about its reliability.

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I'm sure Southerland knew what he was doing, but it still does not alter the fact that "IF" that single trigger had broken at the wrong time Southerlands bag numbers might not be so large, and Taylor's opinion might have been far different on the subject. Taylor also states on that same page the Southerland hunted in far more open, and hence cleaner conditions that Taylor did. The fact is, Taylor did not use single triggers on his doubles, and all, or most, were made to order for him.

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Now regarding authors, I dearly wish that Fletcher Jamieson had achieved his goal of writing a book dealing with his own experiences of African dangerous game hunting.

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I too, would have liked to read stories from the HOSS'S MOUTH on Fletcher's exploits! Too bad he died , so young, in that well!

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DUGABOY1, and MacD37 founding member of DRSS www.doublerifleshooterssociety.com
"If I die today, I have had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"

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By the way, howz that Merk 470 going?
Did you get a set of dies for it?

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