Jack, maybe I should have put a after my comment about 2 being the "correct" number of triggers. I thought everyone would realize that such an overstatement was a joke. Maybe your sense of humor is frozen, up there in the Great White North.

Please note that in your exchange with Ted above, you're doing more than a bit of "spinning" about Burrard's preference for ST's. To me, your quote implies that Burrard prefers a ST WHEN HE'S WEARING GLOVES--not that he totally abandoned the DT in favor of the ST for all his shooting. Unless you have further quotes to provide about how he went TOTALLY, UNDER ALL CONDITIONS from DT to ST. And having spent a bit of time in the UK, where it doesn't get nearly as cold, nearly as often as it does in places like the Upper Midwest, my guess would be that an Englishman having to use a ST due to weather factors is a fairly rare thing.

Have you ever had a problem being bruised by a DT gun, Jack? I have not--and I have owned and shot literally hundreds of them. Some people do have that difficulty, which in many cases can be solved by a little device Galazan sells, that fits on the rear of the trigger guard. I have a left-handed friend who does have difficulty with DT's, but of all the people I know and shoot with who use DT guns, he's the only one. Hand geometry, trigger guard and trigger spacing, all come into play. Just not for all that many people. And the same goes for gloves and DT's in cold weather. Some DT's don't leave enough space for HEAVILY gloved fingers. Depends on how cold your hands get, how much space there is, etc.

Those who say DT's continue to find favor because of "tradition"--as if they couldn't possibly find favor simply because they WORK for most people, and offer some advantages in the field that ST's (especially inertia ones) do not--seem to imply those hidebound Brits were so resistant to change that they wouldn't know a better idea if it hit them between the eyes. Unfortunately, that contention runs smack into the fact that the Brits changed, without much resistance in most cases, from hammerguns to hammerless. If they were so tradition-bound, why didn't they stick with the hammerguns, just like most of them did with the traditional DT's? And even though ST's have improved significantly, it's interesting to note that DT's still find considerable favor with sxs shooters--even those who, given the small share of sxs in the overall shotgun market these days--are much more likely to have "grown up" with a gun that only had one trigger. Seems to me it's because DT's work as well as they ever have, and provide the same advantages they always have. So much so that unlike hammerguns--few of which are made these days--they continue to hold down significant market share in currently manufactured sxs.