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The fact is, there is one instance in particular, of the haveing double triggers was a saver, that I'm personally aware of! This was by Gordon Cundill, with his 500NE double rifle in the middle of a lion charge.

It seems PHC shot a lion at about 50 yds, in the back of the head with a 375 H&H bolt rifle, as that was the only target he had. However, the bullet missed the brain, and went out the opposite cheek through the mouth from the back of the jaw. The lion immediately charged the sound dirrection. A lion can cover 50 yds in about 3 to 5 seconds unless hit, slowing him. The lion was hit ten times, before he went down in the real close charge. With both men fireing, the double Gordon was shooting had a batch of bad ammo, and the first shot was a HANG FIRE,click,pop, #2 click, pop, #3 click, NOTHING, #4 click, pop. So out of four shots tried the rifle fire three time, with hang fires. If Gordon had had a single recoil set trigger, he would have been out of the action after the third shot, but the lion was hit ten times, with #1 being the first bad shot, then three from Gordon, and 7 of the shots was from PHC's bolt rifle, 6 of them durring the charge. To me this says two things. #1 the two triggers were a life saver in this case, along with #2 PHC's handleing of a bolt rifle under fire, so to speak.

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Mac,
A mechanical single trigger would have been able to handle that situation just the same as two triggers.

There is some scary stuff in that story and IMO it has nothing to do with how many triggers were fitted to GC's double.
The hangfires and misfire are the real worry, and for more than one reason!

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