Kyrie, you're right: different Arizaga. (With the reduced number of Spanish makers still in business today, we don't have the problems that continue to exist in Italy, although there aren't as many different Rizzinis putting their names on guns as there were a few years ago.) O'Connor was referring to Esubio Arizaga. He bought a 28 with a single trigger that gave him some problems, but he liked it well enough that he ordered a 20--with a single trigger that doubled even more often, which he finally had replaced with a Miller. He suggests buying Spanish guns with double triggers, and that's certainly the trend on current imports. But other than that, he has very good things to say about the guns.
Re Spanish guns and single triggers, I've usually avoided them as well. But my Ugartechea-made Hanus Bird Gun has one, mechanical, and it's been 100% reliable--both on quite a few grouse and woodcock hunts and several rounds of skeet.
