Double Barrel Trigger Pull

[FishDFly]

In the early 90s I bought a Pedersoli double 10 gauge to shoot competition trap with.

The right trigger pull was not bad, but the left trigger pull was terrible. It was so hard when I went to the line and tried to pull the left trigger, it was so hard I often wondered if I had cocked the hammer. I would take it down to check it. Essentially the double barrel became a single shot because of the left trigger.

My mentor said that they made the left trigger hard to pull so that if you cocked both hammers, when the right barrel went off it would not trip the left hammer.

Any one else see this difference in trigger pulls between right and left barrels on doubles?

Since I only cock one trigger at a time, I had my gunsmith lighten the right trigger a bit and had him lighten the left trigger to match the right.

 

[azmntman]

Recall mine were both crisp and guessing about 3-4 lbs? Also purchased mid nineties from Cabelas. Son used it for his Muzzleloading shot gun merit badge :shocked2:

 

[hawkeye2]

I only have 5 doubles, 1 muzzleloader, 2 original hammer guns, 2 hammerless late 1800's Parkers, and 1 new hamerless and I have only fired a very few other doubles so I'm hardly a qualified shotgunner but I have never seen or heard of anything like that. I believe your mentor was misguided. One of the hammer guns would drop the hammer on the left when I fired the right but that was from lock wear and a gunsmith fixed the issue in no time flat and for just a few dollars.

 

[ZUG]

I have a Pedersoli double 10 gauge that I purchased used and a Navy Arms (Pietta) double 12 and neither of them have trigger pulls like you describe :hmm: :v .

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Naw, since the problem would be the same if one had a double caplock, or a double beechloader, with an exposed hammer if the internals were similar. I own a caplock Pedersoli 20 gauge, and have had several exposed hammer breech loaders over the years, and the internals are quite similar. Such a "trend" would've been known were it normal, eh?

Sounds like the tip of the sear and the full cock notch were rough after machining, and needed some hand polishing with stones. Hey, maybe it was a Friday, and it was Chianti-time, and the quality assurance guy left early?

LD

 

[Lorne Johnson]

Sounds as if some part of the left sear is catching on the stock. I went through that with one of my Pedersolis, and another had a very light pull on the left trigger because the sear was held part way up by the stock wood. Good guns, but the finish work can be a little hasty.

 

[stubshaft]

The double triggers on all 6 of my doubles are relatively similar.