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Am working on something else, but ran into several mentions in Sporting Life of Rolla Heikes' single trigger 1894. I think Researcher checked previously and found no mention of a single trigger option in period Remington catalogs. Anyone seen one?? I also posted on trapshooters.com

Rolla used a Parker at the 1900 GAH at Live Birds, finished out of the money, and went back to his Remington, and won the Interstate Association�s First Annual GAH at Targets June 1900
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1900/VOL_35_NO_14/SL3514012.pdf
Grand American Handicap at Targets, open to all. 100 Blue Rocks, handicaps 14 to 25 yards, high guns, not class shooting. The match was shot from two Magautraps, a Sergeant system, and a five expert system, 25 targets on each set:
R. O. Heikes, Dayton, O., 22 yds. Remington - 91
High Average for four days, counting 430 shots without handicaps:
R. O. Heikes in the lead with .955 per cent., J. S. Fanning second, W. R. Crosby third.

Nov. 10, 1900 Sporting Life
Heikes is now shooting a new single trigger Remington hammerless gun. He divided first money with Fred Gilbert and Elmer Neal in the 25 bird sweep at Peru, Ind., on October 31 with 24 dead.

Nov. 17, 1900
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1900/VOL_36_NO_09/SL3609014.pdf
�E. H. Tripp, the Indianapolis trap shot, tells a "hard luck" poker story- He was sitting in a quiet game with a few of the
trap shots one night at St. Louis. Everything had gone the other way with him, and the boys had been "doing something."
At last he got a handful of aces in the deal, and he said to himself, -�Here is where I get even." He started to bluff the others, but just at that moment Colonel Courtney. who up to that time had been a quiet onlooker, began to tell about a new Remington hanmerless gun that had but one trigger to pull both barrels. He got the other fellows so interested in that gun that they forgot all about the poker game, and Tripp got but five measly chips out of his four aces.�

�RoIIa Heikes is now working his new single trigger Remington hammerless gun��


He appears to have been using the same gun at the National Sportsmen�s Association Tournament March 1901
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_36_NO_25/SL3625013.pdf

R.O. Heikes (Remington Hammerless), Ed Banks (Winchester Repeater), W.R. Crosby (Smith), Jack Fanning (Smith), possibly B. LeRoy (Remington)



He went to a Parker for the Anglo-American match in June 1901, but went back to his Remington.

Feb. 1, 1902 Sporting Life
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_38_NO_20/SL3820012.pdf
"...using a new Remington single trigger hammerless gun..."

Then used a LC Smith to take 3rd in the (last) GAH at Live Birds in Kansas City.
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_39_NO_04/SL3904019.pdf
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_39_NO_05/SL3905018.pdf


Could it have been a Fulford Single Trigger?

January 2, 1904 "The American Field" courtesy of David Noreen.



Fulford won the 1898 Grand American Handicap at Live Birds
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1898/VOL_31_NO_02/SL3102016.pdf
E. D. Fulford, the winner, needs no introduction to the shooting men of this country. He has been at the traps as a professional shot for five or six years and is at present a shooting representative of the Remington Arms Co., and used a Remington hammerless gun weighing 7 3/4 lbs., 3 1/2 Schultze powder in U.M.C. Trap shells, three inches in length; 1 1/4 oz. No. 7 shot.

He sadly died of pneumonia when only 41 Oct. 15, 1904.

Maybe Remington was already planning to abandon the double gun market, which they eventually did February 1910 when the company�s entire inventory of breech loading shotguns was sold to Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co. (St. Louis), successor to Shapleigh Hardware?

I have a notebook full of U.S. Patents for single triggers that either show a Remington double in the patent drawings or the patents are assigned to Remington Arms Co. Patents by C.E. DeLong, E.D. Fulford, E.H. Thorneley, and G.E. Witherell. Some years ago, I believe it was the late Charlie Semmer, sent me a listing of the single trigger Remington doubles in the museum at Ilion. So, it appears to me that Remington Arms Co. was considering entering the single trigger market.

Also, some years ago someone sent me these pictures of a single trigger on a Remington trigger plate --

I don't recognize that trigger, but the selector doesn't look like the one in the Fulford picture. A Fulford equipped Parker appeared at our Chantilly gun show recently, but I didn't take a very close look at it. I don't remember when the Lancaster Arms Company trigger was introduced.

I think it would be more interesting showing up at the trap club in a 1900 suit and top hat.