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Dugaboy, I don´t think he had it converted, the .476 he owned and I presume this is the gun, was a single trigger when he got it, also why NON SELECTIVE, the worst were selectives for going wrong. Daryl, you actually spoke to the great man !!! I am in awe, when I was 12-14 years old, I spent all my time reading his articles in Guns and Ammo

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Mike I don’t think the quote was that “HE” converted only that it “WAS” converted from double trigger to single non-selective!

I don’t like any single trigger on a double rifle that will be used for hunting dangerous game! The “WHY” of my response is that if you risk your life on a single trigger on a double rifle, and it is non-selective, and you pull the first trigger, and the rifle doesn’t fire, you really do not know WHY that barrel didn’t go off! It could be a dud, or it could be a tumbler spring, or it could be a stuck striker, or a broken striker. The other barrel fires then you know, at least, you have a working single shot with that barrel. You break a non-selective triggered double to reload, and with ejectors both cartridges will eject, so you still don’t know why the right barrel didn’t fire. (I say right barrel, because tha non-selective trigger will always fire the right barrel first. You re-load both barrels and the right barrel fails to fire again! OUCH!

If the single trigger is selective and the above thing happens the proper thing to do would be to select the other barrel to fire first, and so that you will at least be firing a barrel you know fired before, and when you pull the trigger again and that barrel fails again, when you break the rifle it will automatically re-set the left barrel to fire first, and will do so each time you open to re-load that left barrel. It the first miss fire was simply a dud then you have lost nothing because the rifle will swtill fire both barrels on each re-load only in a reverse order. Though this is my opinion, and we know what that is worth for buying a cup of coffee, but that opinion is shared my one JOHN TAYLOR, on pages 324 and 325 of his book AFRICAN RIFLES and CRTRIDGES
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