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Are the single triggers in the BSS action enertia or mechanical varieties.

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I am a bit concerned, as this one is a single trigger.

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I guess a lot depends on weather you intend taking the rifle after DG, how dependable the BSS single trigger system is, considering that it is now dealing with rifle rather than shotgun recoil, and weather you can use a single trigger double rifle ok.
Some, like Nitro X, has trouble with pulling the wrong bits!

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An enertia trigger would scare the crap out of me...mis-fire in #1 = no fire in #2!!!...until I drop the gun and run like hell!!

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I've done quite a lot of shooting with single trigger doubles and my experience with them has been very good.
I have an O/U double rifle with a single inertia trigger that has fired a lot of rounds (many hundreds) and has never had any problem whatsoever as far as the trigger is concerned.
Incidently, with an inertia trigger double, if you have a misfire in #1, you can still fire #2 if you have time and so long as you know the "trick".

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Incidently, with an inertia trigger double, if you have a misfire in #1, you can still fire #2 if you have time and so long as you know the "trick".

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The trick is to thump the butt on the ground. Not necessarily a grand idea with a loaded rifle, particularly when something large with bad breadth is coming to visit. You can also try to thump the butt with your hand and it may or not work but is awkward.

Have you seen this rifle in person? It is not like one of your German Drillings.

If the price is right though it may be fun.

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Incidently, with an inertia trigger double, if you have a misfire in #1, you can still fire #2 if you have time and so long as you know the "trick".

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I did not know this rifle was a single trigger model, and that changes the whole deal, IMO! The single trigger is a worse feature than the rimless cartridge extration problem!

First I will never own a single trigger double rifle, and CERTAINLY, not an inertia cocked second barrel, even on a shotgun! The trick is to slam the rifle butt down on something to "SET" the second tumbler, in case of a missfire on the first barrel. I would rather hunt with a singleshot that I knew, up front, is a single shot! The whole idea of a double rifle is that it is two indipendant rifles on the same stock, the single trigger takes that distinction away, and changes a very dependable rifle into a "MAY WORK" rifle! NOT FOR ME!

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The trick is to thump the butt on the ground. Not necessarily a grand idea with a loaded rifle

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Mick, yeah, I totally agree that it would be a rather unsafe practice in more ways than one, but with the inertia trigger on my gun you don't need to do that.

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First I will never own a single trigger double rifle, and CERTAINLY, not an inertia cocked second barrel.............. I would rather hunt with a singleshot that I knew, up front, is a single shot!

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Mac,
I'll bet you right now that if you had a misfire with that single shot and I had a misfire at the same time in the first barrel of my inertia single trigger double that I'd be able to fire my doubles second barrel before you could even extract the misfired case from your single shot!

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Okay, I'll be the one to bite. What's the secret?

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This "trick" might not work on every inertia trigger system but it does work on mine.
You simply pull the safety catch back to safe poition and then slip it straight back to fire and bingo, pull the trigger and fire the second barrel.
Actually it only takes a fraction of a second longer to do than it takes to shift your finger to a second trigger on a two trigger gun!

The single trigger system is not as much of a problem as many people think.
It is actually a myth that inertia trigger systems require recoil to cock the tumbler for the second barrel.
Inertia trigger systems (that I've used) cock both barrels when you break the gun open just the same way as a two trigger gun or a single mechanical trigger gun does!

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