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I'm not familiar with these, only having used a "mechanical" single trigger or double triggers...are there pluses or minuses to these, reliability or otherwise? I mostly shoot moderate to light loads if that matters...
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No problems here with two Browning Supers and three Citori over-unders. One of the Supers was about as ancient as they come.

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My Bernardelli Hemingway has an inertia single trigger, never a problem unless you mess around with snap caps (which I don't!).


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My three Superposeds are 1968 New Model Skeets. The 12-gauge has the inertia trigger, while the 20-gauge and .410-bore have the mechanical trigger. I shoot a lot of my light 7/8 ounce 1200 fps reloads in the 12-gauge and it has functioned perfectly.

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If you are hunting and you have a misfire for your first shot you will not be able to take your second shot. There goes the Grouse or whatever! I have a 12ga SKB with many 10,000's of rounds thrue it and it has been very reliable. Even with 7/8 oncers. The choioce is yours.

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On a double gun a single trigger must momentarily disengage from battery, or possibility exists of both barrels firing nearly similtaneously. The human brain unknowingly pulls the trigger during recoil. Both inertia and mechanical single triggers accomplish the same thing. As for the supposed advantage of the mechanical trigger allowing the second barrel to fire in case of a dud, I've never had the situation come up in 23 years of hunting, probably never will.


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If the recoil is too low, a mechanical trigger is probably required. An example of this is using 410 or 28g. tubes in a 12 gauge gun. Using different size tubes in a 12 gauge gun is very common in Skeet.


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The only guns I had a problem with had double triggers---12 gauge AYA Matadors---and none with my 20ga SKB o/u Model 500 in 30 years.

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Single triggers can leave you stranded on the second shot e.g. is when you hurry the first shot, typical when you have a chukar dropping over a cliff, and you didn't get the mount firmly in place. You are then outta luck for any quickly flushing second bird.

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The best of all worlds.

Two inertial single triggers in the same gun.

Otherwise known as the Browning 'Double-Single Trigger'. If it fails to reset for the second shot just pull the second trigger.

Though I have never had to test this since both triggers in my gun work fine even with light 7/8oz loads.


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