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back to " safe " placed the shooter in rather an awkward 

 predicament, and besides, was calculated to give rise to 

 remarks that would otherwise have been unnecessary ; 

 still, it is better, because safer, to have the bolt jar on 

 than jar off. Other cases are on record where faulty 

 hammerless guns have been known to go off when the 

 safety-bolt \vas pushed back, and this, too, without the 

 triggers having been touched. All these undesirable 

 qualities are, however, thoroughly eliminated in the best 

 makes of hammerless gun of this day, so that at length 

 one is convinced that a really well-made hammerless 

 gun is more to be desired than any type preceding it. 



More than one generation of gun-makers has been fully 

 alive to the fact that a single-triggered double gun would 

 prove much handier and quicker in use than the two- 

 triggered arm. In truth, many years ago, considerably 

 more than one hundred firearms on this principle were 

 planned and patented ; but although several successive 

 generations of gun-makers have been theoretically alive 

 to its advantages, the production of a thoroughly reliable 

 double gun on the single-trigger system has been re- 

 served to the gun-makers of our immediate time. One 

 serious difficulty presenting itself in the initial stage 

 of this recent endeavour to provide sportsmen with 

 single-triggered guns was the premature discharge of 

 the second barrel, caused either by the shooter himself 

 or by the shock of the first discharge. Since that time, 

 however, gun-makers have overcome these difficulties, 

 and will now guarantee their single-triggered double 

 guns safe against premature discharge of the second 

 barrel, either through jarring off or by reason of a 

 second involuntary pull on the trigger by the shooter 

 on feeling the recoil ; this recommendation holds good 



