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Is the early browning superposed with double triggers more desirable than the single trigger guns?
Edited for clarity: I'm asking about the very early traditional double trigger guns before Val's double/single trigger invention.
Last edited by RyanF; 10/04/19 05:18 PM.
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I like them. BUT I am OLD  The gun is not plastic, black, and will not hold 8 shells. Seems like all of us old fellas that like Superposed guns are dying off, Mike
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It's all in the condition. Neither one is more desired, both are very coveted in high condition. Late guns past 1966, not so much. Double trigger supers in high condition have become cult guns.
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I thought the salt wood started about 1964
Maybe Salty bOb Cash will straighten us out.
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Is the early browning superposed with double triggers more desirable than the single trigger guns?
Edited for clarity: I'm asking about the very early traditional double trigger guns before Val's double/single trigger invention. My double-trigger Superposed has a serial number less than 500, so I guess that counts as early... the first guns were beautifully made and marketed directly by FN, and are so marked. I cant speak from experience anout later 12 gauge guns, but I have a Superposed in 20 gauge with the single trigger, from the first year that version was available. I have to say that I prefer the double trigger configuration, as I dont have to think about the barrel selector button. I agree with the other comments, either one is a fine gun in the field, and desirable to own.
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Is the early browning superposed with double triggers more desirable than the single trigger guns?
Edited for clarity: I'm asking about the very early traditional double trigger guns before Val's double/single trigger invention. My double-trigger Superposed has a serial number less than 500, so I guess that counts as early... the first guns were beautifully made and marketed directly by FN, and are so marked. I cant speak from experience anout later 12 gauge guns, but I have a Superposed in 20 gauge with the single trigger, from the first year that version was available. I have to say that I prefer the double trigger configuration, as I dont have to think about the barrel selector button. I agree with the other comments, either one is a fine gun in the field, and desirable to own. I recall that the 20 gauge Superposed was introduced in the 50,s Is my memory correct.?
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Is the early browning superposed with double triggers more desirable than the single trigger guns?
Edited for clarity: I'm asking about the very early traditional double trigger guns before Val's double/single trigger invention. My double-trigger Superposed has a serial number less than 500, so I guess that counts as early... the first guns were beautifully made and marketed directly by FN, and are so marked. I cant speak from experience anout later 12 gauge guns, but I have a Superposed in 20 gauge with the single trigger, from the first year that version was available. I have to say that I prefer the double trigger configuration, as I dont have to think about the barrel selector button. I agree with the other comments, either one is a fine gun in the field, and desirable to own. I recall that the 20 gauge Superposed was introduced in the 50,s Is my memory correct.? Calgary Bill, your memory is correct. The 20 gauge Superposed dates from 1951, and the 12, a field grade pictured here, is from 1930 or so (it is hard to pin down dates from the very early FN production, it seems - but it is before they were marked with a Browning barrel address and marketed in the US). 
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The earliest 20 gauge Supers were shipped in late 1949, but 1949, 1951, who cares? The 20s started with their own serial number series. My #605 was probably shipped in early 1950. Schwing lists some early numbers by shipping date. In my experience, no early 20s were built with double triggers. Later on, probably some special order guns were made with double triggers.
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I had always wanted a double trigger Superposed, so when someone here had one for sale, I bought it. It was nearly new. I found that I didn't like the ergonomics of the gun. It didn't seem to fit me as well as the later, single trigger Superposed guns that I had owned. It was bulky and felt generally oversized. So I sold it on with no regrets. There were some early "double-single" Superposed guns in which if either trigger was pulled, it could be pulled again to fire the other barrel. Or the other trigger would do the same thing. I've never used one so I can't say how they performed.
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