Bill, not sure what the referent of "they" is following "Wouldn't" in your third to last sentence. I surely do not know the answer of how it works. Dustin would be the first one I'd ask, or a smith familiar with them. I did want to pass on an anecdote that may lend a clue, or deepen the mystery: I was on a Kansas late season pheasant hunt, the first outing with the 314. I was shooting reloads in the right barrel, factory in the left. Bird got up, thought I hit it hard, but it coasted a good 500 yards into some heavy cover. Off we went after it, with Cocoa doing a great job of locating it. Bird got up again, classic left to right crosser: swung through and pulled the front trigger. CLICK. kept swinging and pulled the back trigger. ClICK. Bird flew off and I stood open mouthed looking at my host. "Never did like French guns" was all he said. Turns out that in reloading before moving, I had put a reload in the left barrel. The tolerances on the 314 were/are so tight that if not a perfectly crimped mouth and resized base, the rising third bite behind the doll's head would not quite seat flush. This kept the gun from going completely into battery, and there would be the lightest mark on the primers. It felt like the strikers were impeded by friction, as opposed to perhaps a mechanical block like a safety sear, and felt very much the same gentle release that is felt when decocking the gun. So now, whether factory shell or reload, I check that the rising bite is flush with the doll's head. FWIW Mike
