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double vision
PostPosted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:07 pm  Reply with quote
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fin2feather wrote:
double vision wrote:
I'm glad I have options.


Me too.

Researcher wrote:
In my seventy-five years I can recall very few times I've been shooting when it was so cold I had to wear a glove on my right hand.


I don't really like to have any glove on my right hand. I take off whichever one I'm wearing as often as I can. Pockets work too Very Happy !


Wish that were possible in my region, but it's not. Good hunting boys.
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mcrewz
PostPosted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:15 pm  Reply with quote



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I use something similar, when it’s real cold put on a cheap pair of those dark brown jersey gloves underneath and mine have a build in pocket on the mitt for one of those shakem up chemical heaters. If I’m still to cold I walk faster.
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fin2feather
PostPosted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:10 am  Reply with quote
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South Dakota, two years ago. We hunted in t-shirts and vests one day, the next day it was colder than the proverbial witch's breast, wind howling and a foot of snow on the ground. I'm not convinced that any gloves would have kept my hands warm that day; if they existed you couldn't have shot ANY gun with them on unless you took the trigger guard off. Maybe. If I'd been at home I'd have stayed there. I put on the warmest thin gloves I had and then tugged the heaviest I had on over them. Had to take the right one off at every shooting opportunity. A single trigger gun wouldn't have helped. Exceedingly unpleasant but I survived. Coldest I have ever been while hunting, and I've been pretty darn cold before. This is not to argue with anyone about the merits of single triggers; just to point out that this doesn't happen to me often enough that I feel the need to have one to keep my hands warm. Thankful for that.

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UncleDanFan
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:35 pm  Reply with quote
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I wear gloves all the time from November through January while Chukar hunting, and have no issue with dt's. Then again, my gloves aren't giant mittens either.

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Dave in Maine
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:00 pm  Reply with quote



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All my multibarrel guns have two triggers. Even the drilling with its three barrels!

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 11:57 am  Reply with quote
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For pheasant hunting I use cross country ski gloves during the winter and they rarely interfere with my double triggers and they keep my hands pretty warm unless it is approaching the single digits. I have become a wimp in my old age and if it is below 8 degrees I don't venture into the pheasant fields or the XC ski trails. TOKO XC gloves work very well for me. Some gloves make the index finger too long and that creates a problem.
Good Hunting,
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canvasback
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:22 pm  Reply with quote



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I have about 15 or so SxS. All DT except the last one I bought. A Francotte 28 gauge. It was converted from DT and the sale included the original hardware.

I intended to immediately switch it back but I’m having some fun trying it out.

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nj gsp
PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:04 am  Reply with quote



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My favorite gloves are the SSG 0600 Rind N' Ranch, I not only use them for riding horses, but they also make a great glove for those chilly days in the grouse woods. Personally I prefer single trigger guns because I always seem to forget about the second trigger right when I really need to remember I have one. Missed a lot of birds forgetting about that rear trigger...

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Ted Schefelbein
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I didn’t need gloves, regardless of weather, until I was about 55. People thought I was a freak, but, I’m from here.

I have an O/U that has a single trigger. It was my Dad’s, he had a military injury that kept him from shooting double triggers, or, a straight stock. If it is going to be cold, say, anything under 20 degrees F, I use the O/U. Non selective single trigger, simple is good for a guy used to double triggers. Above 20 degrees, I can get by with a single glove on my non trigger hand. Usually.

I’m in a relearning phase right now, double triggers are a bit strange to get used to with my right paw, but, I am going to try, hard, to get it to work. I love my double trigger guns.

Best,
Ted

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Jta5er
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Take a double trigger sub gauge gun dove hunting a couple times and the rest will be history. I’m like Ted no glove on trigger hand while bird hunting in the cold. But if it got bad I would cut finger off Jersey glove for trigger hand, done that deer hunting before. Even my o/u duck gun ( fias kasnnar beater) has 2 triggers. Use to use 10ga zabala but 12lbs got to be much for me now the desk jockey.

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Old colonel2
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:42 pm  Reply with quote



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Of 13 SXS guns, all double triggers save one M21 12ga.

I prefer double triggers, but have no real issues when shooting a single trigger.

I believe it is ultimately what you are used to using.
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UncleDanFan
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I have a factory ST EE grade Lefever 12 on layaway, for use mostly as a dedicated clays gun, and also because it's a steel barreled gun that only weighs 6lbs 6oz, so I can use it for upland as well. After shooting at a trap event today where barrel selection was a huge factor due to increasing ranges, I'm not sure I made a good decision getting the EE. I guess we'll see.

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nj gsp
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:29 pm  Reply with quote



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Old colonel2 wrote:
I believe it is ultimately what you are used to using.


Exactly! If I practiced more with my double trigger guns, I would not be so forgetful of that rear trigger.

All of my double trigger guns have a shorter LOP than more modern guns, which seems common in those small frame doubles of the first part of the 20th century.

I have rarely had an issue with “Back Trigger Finger” but I believe that is why a lot of people wear gloves or pad the back of the trigger guard. But basically they are holding the gun incorrectly. I do it too sometimes, when I forget what I have in my hands, but usually I just forget about the rear trigger because 97% of my shooting is done with single trigger guns, which most often I’m only firing a single shot.

Practice, practice, practice…
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