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Shooting School, and full facilities were given for 

 making a thoroughly practical trial of this exceedingly 

 ingenious device. After firing an extensive and ex- 

 tremely varied series of shots with light and heavy loads, 

 I came away convinced that at length a thoroughly 

 practical and workable method had been discovered for 

 manipulating both locks of a double gun with one 

 trigger. 



I have since used in the field, with both comfort and 

 success, a single-triggered double gun made by Mr. 

 Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond St., W. In this gun 

 all risk of the simultaneous discharge, or premature 

 firing of the second barrel, either by the jar or con- 

 cussion of the first explosion, or by the sportsman's own 

 involuntary clutch on the trigger, is entirely obviated 

 by an ingenious and simple arrangement which Mr. 

 Lancaster calls a " spring-detainer." This moment- 

 arily delays, in fact times, the movement of the switch- 

 ing trigger on the sear of the other lock until the 

 shooter desires to pull off the second barrel. This plan 

 lends itself to the application of the selective principle, 

 by which means the barrels may be fired right-left or 

 left-right as may be found expedient. This of course 

 is a great advantage to those meeting with a variety of 

 game, for they can thus use upon hare, pheasant, or 

 wild-duck the No. 5 shot cartridge they may have in 

 their left barrel, or upon snipe the No. 8 shot in their 

 right barrel. Those, however, who shoot much at driven 

 game, with barrels of identical boring, will find the 

 selective principle less essential. 



One morning in the autumn of 1897 there reached me 

 a single-triggered double 12-bore from Messrs. Holland 

 and Holland, 98 New Bond St., W., just as I was about 



