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I was bird hunting with a double shot gun and getting two shots off at a quail was tuff when using just one finger. And if I used two I doubled every time.

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I think that the best way to find out what a 470 feels like when it doubles is to put one finger on each trigger and then pull one.

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Front trigger then the rear trigger and only one finger.

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The above applies to double rifles only! You pull the trigger that fires the choke you want for the shot you are takeing! I set my double trigger shotguns up if I have screw in chokes with the right barrel the tightest choke if I'm pass shooting, or shooting in-comeing birds, This way if a pair is coming in, I fire the tight barrel (RT barrel) at about 35 yds, and fire the more open barrel as the other bird slides in another 10 yds or so, before he can turn.

If I'm walking up birds that flush from the weeds, then I fire the open choke first, then the tighter barrel as the bird is getting farther out! Never us a double trigger shotgun, or rifle with a finger on both triggers!

the right barrel on most double shotguns is the tighter of the two, I like it that way, because it is the same as the order that is supposed to be used with a double rifle.

As others have told you, practice, practice, practice, and it will come!

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On a heavy recoiling DR you should fire the left barrel (or rear trigger) FIRST.

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510wells, you may fire your double anyway you please, as can anyone who owns one! However,the proper sequince is RT, LFT, RT, LFT, on a double rifle regardless of how much it recoils. The reason for this is, the rifles are regulated that way at the maker's. If you will remember from fireing your double, the barrel being fired will instantly heat up as the bullet passes beneath your fingers through the barrel,It can be felt instantly. This sudden heat effects the steel, and because it is tied to the other barrel, it moves the cool barrel as it warps from steel expansion. This dirrectly effects the next shot from the other barrel. Since the barrels were regulated to account for this instant warpage, that is the way it should be fired. Sometimes you can get by with doing it backwards, but it isn't correct.

The fix for avoiding doubeling, is to learn how to shoot your rifle properly. I shoot double rifles with lots of recoil, and I don't double my rifles, and if done properly, you shouldn't either. The shotgun is a different story, unless the barrels are both the same choke, then it doesn't matter, as regulation on a shotgun is an accident at best, and is a very loosely "overlapping", of patterns. But if the chokes are different, then you fire the one first that has the choke you want.

This isn't the case with a double rifle, they must regulate perfectly, and the sequince dirrectly effects that, in most cases, especially on shots over 100 yds! I will admit, at ten yds, on a chargeing Buffalo, it most likely doesn't matter, because this is a "POINT, AND SHOOT" sittuation, and aiming is, in most cases, not a factor, anyway. If you only intend useing your double only for stopping, then use the rear trigger first. If however, you use your rifle to hunt with, which is what it was made for, then doing it properly is a habit that one is well advised to learn!

I'll let the origenal poster of the question decide what he wants to do with "HIS" double rifle. After 48 years of building,hunting, and shooting with double rifles of every size from .22 hornet, to 577NE, I'll shoot mine RT,LFT, RT, LFT. Others may do as it suits them!

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