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If I were going to buy a new shotgun and the option was a single selective trigger or double triggers, I would select the double triggers. To me that is what a sxs should look like and have.
The only reason I have a few "elsies" with either the HOT trigger or Millers is that that aren't that common, especially the Millers.
In all my years of hunting I have never, ever selected to change one barrel from the other, why, most of them are to clumsy to do so while either bringing the gun to mount or mounted. The Miller trigger with the safety selector is the only one that you are able to do so mounted. Some of the newer o/u and sxs have the sliding selector on the safety, still not user friendly mounted.

So to me the Miller single trigger on the safety is the one to have.
As far as checking the safety while hunting, I do it all the time just to make sure it is on "Safe", whether a standard two trigger, HOT, Miller's or 3 position. Just habit.

In theory to me the safe in the middle safety/selector on my NIDs is the best for hunting with a single trigger gun, but I hardly ever do that. I almost always hunt with a double trigger gun. Last fall I did take an IC/Mod Superposed out hunting and had a fairly wild flush where I wanted to switch to the heavy load in the modified barrel, but it didn't happen, and the Rooster went safely, and un shot at, out into the cattails of a lake a half mile away.

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One man's abomination, another man's treasure. The Miller trigger with barrel/choke selector at safety is one of my favorite triggers on a Parker. Not sure why Murphy struggles with it so much, I find it to be very simple and accommodating. Middle position safety-On, forward position-right barrel mod, back position-left barrel full. Choke selection with your thumb in the blink of an eye..... No Fuss, No Muss.

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Can anyone tell me when the Miller trigger first came out?

Will get photos up after Christmas. I bought the gun and told my wife it was my Christmas present, so I'm trying not to play with it too much til after the holiday.

Hello All

Here is a picture of my Miller triggered gun




Mike

Of all the single selective trigger guns I've hunted with, I rarely have tried to change barrel selection once game was in the air. The few times I've tried, it was futile. I just pull the trigger and not worry about barrel selection.

I do like a selective trigger on a dove gun. I shoot doves a lot, and am constantly trying to improve my technique and averages. One of the things I have taught myself to do is take incomers earlier than I used to. In Argentina I experimented a lot and learned just how far out a 7/8 oz. load of 7 1/2's or 8's will down an incoming dove out of a light modified choked 20 gauge. I normally keep a LM in my left barrel and a more open tube in the right. If the birds are incomers I switch to fire the left (tight) barrel first and can down the first bird in time to double with the second, as the birds get closer, with the more open right barrel. If not incomers, I will switch back to the right barrel first, then the tighter left.

However, this is the only time in the field I have ever had any real use for a selective trigger.