Double triggers or Single - for Ruffed Grouse/Woodcock
- Thread starter Ahsan Ahmed
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Sharptail, I can get off two shots so two triggers are nice. For ruffies, one shot is about it so it doesn't matter.
I recall now one very memorable hunt where I took a limit of sharpies. A buddy on the other side of a stand of trees was flushing them up over to me, rather like an English driven pheasant hunt. There I was shooting Mod and then IC.
I recall now one very memorable hunt where I took a limit of sharpies. A buddy on the other side of a stand of trees was flushing them up over to me, rather like an English driven pheasant hunt. There I was shooting Mod and then IC.
Applefarmer
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I hate Double Triggers. Never liked them as they make about as much sense as putting three triggers on a drilling and four triggers on a pepper box.
Oh man, grouse and woodcock. Used to spend days stumbling through the creekbottoms looking for "timberdoodles". Seems like a lifetime ago. Wait, it was
I think I may have seen my first and only timberdoodle ever here in NW Ontario last week. Seems like a long ways out of there range tho.
Ahsan Ahmed
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Actually DTs do make a lot of sense (common sense that is
) based on time proven applications given a range of hunting/shooting conditions.
Ahsan Ahmed
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I prefer a single trigger probably because I use several shotguns and when I use my only DT gun ( a Parker) I nearly break the front trigger off trying to get a second shot
LOL! A new young guy I was hunting with yesterday nearly did that to my DT equipped sxs as he almost "crushed" the front trigger when he missed a grouse with his first shot.....he owns a SxS with SST.
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- Saskatchewan
IF you hunt with a gun having significantly different choke dimensions, like IC/Full or skeet/modified, double triggers will give you instant choke selection with no time lost or fumbling with selectors. I like that when hunting birds with a pointing dog and the flush is not close in where I expect it to be. I currently only have one gun so equipped.
For shooting clay targets I think the SST is superior.
For shooting clay targets I think the SST is superior.
Turkeyslayer 1300
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I have had good luck with an SST that being said my Timberdoodle/ Grouse gun's selctor is always set to fire my Top Skeet choked barrel first. The Selctor has never been moved as far as I know.
While I understand and can appreciate the functional advantage of double triggers as many hard core purists so often are quick to put forward as reason to dump on SST's, in this situation the OP presents I would have to be of the opinion that a SST is advantageous over the double trigger. Ruffs are all that I have been hunting for the last 20 seasons and fully 99 % of flushes are going away from me.
I think that with the SST or for that matter, a SNST, a second shot can be had quicker enough than a traditional double trigger setup to possibly connect before the Ruff is lost to sight in the trees and brush.
Even in the example usually made that the double trigger shines in so-called instant choke selection, it is only so in that the tighter choked bbl can be selected first vs. the SST because it is usually set in the open bbl first to fire. If the bird was seen to flush from afar and coming toward the shooter, most SST,s have the time to shift to tight bbl first and automatically have the open bbl for a closer shot. If the bird is seen to flush from afar and going away, then the only advantage the double trigger would have is to be able to fire it's tighter bbl and have no reasonable second shot with the more open bbl fired secondly. The SST would at least have it's tighter bbl fired secondly as the range
Increased.
All the above is just this one man's opinion. Truly I love doubles be they of O/U or SxS and happily use either with SST's, double, and would love to get my hands on an old Browning Superposed with the twin single trigger!!!
I think that with the SST or for that matter, a SNST, a second shot can be had quicker enough than a traditional double trigger setup to possibly connect before the Ruff is lost to sight in the trees and brush.
Even in the example usually made that the double trigger shines in so-called instant choke selection, it is only so in that the tighter choked bbl can be selected first vs. the SST because it is usually set in the open bbl first to fire. If the bird was seen to flush from afar and coming toward the shooter, most SST,s have the time to shift to tight bbl first and automatically have the open bbl for a closer shot. If the bird is seen to flush from afar and going away, then the only advantage the double trigger would have is to be able to fire it's tighter bbl and have no reasonable second shot with the more open bbl fired secondly. The SST would at least have it's tighter bbl fired secondly as the range
Increased.
All the above is just this one man's opinion. Truly I love doubles be they of O/U or SxS and happily use either with SST's, double, and would love to get my hands on an old Browning Superposed with the twin single trigger!!!
I like double triggers -- Of the 9 SxS's that I own, all but one is a single trigger. At first, I thought I wouldn't be able to get used to doubles but found that after 5 or 6 rounds of skeet there was no problem -- in fact I can shoot double targets as fast with two triggers as with my single competition guns with no thought. My brain seems programed that I can switch back an forth naturally. The benefit to two triggers is an almost instantious choice of choke -- the downside is that the larger trigger guard can take a toll on your middle finger from recoil if you have small hands.
Cheers, John
Cheers, John
^^ My sxs is choked cyl/mod. Woodcock almost always get the cyl - and I even have to wait for them to gain some ground before firing. The local, very wary grouse are less predictable and the terrain varies enough that it's nice to have the instant option.
