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As an employee of a "Cabela's Gun Library," I learned that on double rifles, a person shot the rear trigger FIRST. The reason was that if one was in a hurry and let his finger slip while shooting front trigger first, one could "double."
They say it only took once to learn the lesson.
Sam That is interesting information. I didn't know that...Geo
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As an employee of a "Cabela's Gun Library," I learned that on double rifles, a person shot the rear trigger FIRST. The reason was that if one was in a hurry and let his finger slip while shooting front trigger first, one could "double."
They say it only took once to learn the lesson.
Sam I was just reading a story on another forum by a woman who did just that on a cape buffalo. Second shot went high into orbit, but the first one was sufficient so it did not matter, except to her shoulder. The only double rifles I've ever shot were relatively small (18 bore and a .45 BPE). Neither recoiled more than a shotgun so it seems the front-trigger-first issue wasn't really an issue at all.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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I recall in one of Robert Ruark' s articles he wrote about his .470NE as I recall would double if the front trigger was fired first, though he gave no explanation as to why. Seems as on this particular hunt he shot a nice horned "Pink Elephant" ( It had been wallowing in some red ocher earth) in the rain & remembered to pull the rear trigger first. Then hs guide, Selby I believe, told him to go up & give it that insurance shot, so he shot a dead Elephant & having reloaded, forgot & pulled the front trigger. Flipped him head over heels into a thorn bush.
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I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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Mr. Olin had the chokes reversed from the norm not the triggers. His right barrel was full and the left more open.
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Ruark also detailed that he had a .404 Jeffrey on a Mauser action-- but the wing safety went South- so the only way he could put that rifle on SAFE was to lift up the bolt handle.
Ruark was a gifted writer, even better on Africa than Hemingway (but not equal to Peter Capstick) IMO.. But he was a raging alcoholic, and miss-handled his firearms- Without Selby backing him up with his .416 Rigby, he would have been trampled to death by "M'Bogo" long before he died in Spain in 1965 from cancer.
Last edited by Run With The Fox; 02/13/19 05:20 PM.
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Hemingway, Ruark and Capstick were all serious alcoholics from my reading of their work and biographical information
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Why? All his custom-built M21's had the single selective triggers-- With that option, you can choose whether to shoot the tighter choked barrel first, or secondly- in your "chain-of-fire" scenarios.
I use the M21 my late father left me in 1980- for upland birds (preserve fezzants) over pointing "dawgs""- so I always use the open choked barrel first, reserving the second more choked barrel for the second shot- if needed. Old habits die hard!!
Last edited by Run With The Fox; 02/15/19 06:26 PM.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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