101 20 ga field

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Have a mid 70’s vintage 101. Original owner, low usage gun. Any way, it seems not to want to fire the second shot a lot of the time, I’ve heard they may be inertia cocking hammer/ pins. Does this make sense? And if so is this an easy fix?
 
I had a 20 gauge and yes, it was inertia. Mine worked fine though so can't really help with your problem unless maybe your gun is gummed up a bit from not being used much over time.
 
All four of my 101 Win have mechanical triggers and all the ones I have bought and sold have had mechanical triggers . Short strikes on the upper barrel is not uncommon especially with reloads a good flushing and cleaning of the trigger sets should clear your problem IMHO
 
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I have owned 3 101's over the years they have all had mechanical triggers. Never heard of a 101 with an inertia trigger set up. Sounds like it may be as simple as a good cleaning, as you state it is not a consistent occurrence. I would suggest taking it to a decent gunsmith to have it examined if your not familiar with the inner workings of a OU.

Question: does this happen with the barrel selector in either position. ?? When you pull the trigger you should hear a distinct click, when pulled again you should hear the same thing again. Recock the gun by opening and closing. Switch the barrel selector and dry fire them again and hear what happens.

Trying to determine here if it is just one barrel that is not firing or if the mechanics of the barrel selector is involved in the issue. Do a little experimentation to see what's happening. You can use empty hulls as snap caps if you wish.

Inertia triggers set up that are common in Browning Citori's can be confirmed by pull the trigger and you hear the click, full the rigger again you will get nothing. Give the butt of the gun a hard a stiff bump on the floor or by hand and that will reset the trigger mechanism, pull the trigger again and the second barrel will click.
 
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mrgoat said:
I have owned 3 101's over the years they have all had mechanical triggers. Never heard of a 101 with an inertia trigger set up. Sounds like it may be as simple as a good cleaning, as you state it is not a consistent occurrence. I would suggest taking it to a decent gunsmith to have it examined if your not familiar with the inner workings of a OU.

Question: does this happen with the barrel selector in either position. ?? When you pull the trigger you should hear a distinct click, when pulled again you should hear the same thing again. Recock the gun by opening and closing. Switch the barrel selector and dry fire them again and hear what happens.

Trying to determine here if it is just one barrel that is not firing or if the mechanics of the barrel selector is involved in the issue. Do a little experimentation to see what's happening. You can use empty hulls as snap caps if you wish.

Inertia triggers set up that are common in Browning Citori's can be confirmed by pull the trigger and you hear the click, full the rigger again you will get nothing. Give the butt of the gun a hard a stiff bump on the floor or by hand and that will reset the trigger mechanism, pull the trigger again and the second barrel will click.
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Ya , it does seem to have something to do with the selector if I remember right. I’ll check,
 
I may have been thinking of a different gun when I said mine had inertia trigger but I thought I had to bump the stock to get the gun to fire a second time if not shooting live rounds. But I may not be remembering correctly but I came across the information below so I'm not really sure.


Loc: The Republic of Texas The inertia trigger were introduced on some of the target grade guns. They did not replace the mechanical trigger across the entire line. Some hunting grade guns also had the inertia trigger.
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mrgoat said:
I have owned 3 101's over the years they have all had mechanical triggers. Never heard of a 101 with an inertia trigger set up. Sounds like it may be as simple as a good cleaning, as you state it is not a consistent occurrence. I would suggest taking it to a decent gunsmith to have it examined if your not familiar with the inner workings of a OU.

Question: does this happen with the barrel selector in either position. ?? When you pull the trigger you should hear a distinct click, when pulled again you should hear the same thing again. Recock the gun by opening and closing. Switch the barrel selector and dry fire them again and hear what happens.

Trying to determine here if it is just one barrel that is not firing or if the mechanics of the barrel selector is involved in the issue. Do a little experimentation to see what's happening. You can use empty hulls as snap caps if you wish.

Inertia triggers set up that are common in Browning Citori's can be confirmed by pull the trigger and you hear the click, full the rigger again you will get nothing. Give the butt of the gun a hard a stiff bump on the floor or by hand and that will reset the trigger mechanism, pull the trigger again and the second barrel will click.
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Don't do this on a hard floor unless you want a broken stock, especially if it doesn't have a recoil pad!
 
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