Hunter One NON SELECTIVE Single TriggerArchived Message
Posted by Bill Hofstetter on April 20, 2016, 1:14 pm
I own a 1941 Field Grade L. C. Smith in the Wildfowl configuration with the optional Hunter One Non Selective single trigger. I ordered a research letter from the this association which confirmed the gun came from the factory with this trigger. During the 10 years I've owned the gun I've never had any trouble with the trigger although I haven't fired it more that 8 or 9 times. The gun has spent most of the past 10 years in a gun case-barrels down. Every spring I clean the barrels and when I close them I pull the trigger on each barrel to relieve the locks' mainspring tension. I do this with snap caps in the barrels. Yesterday I went through my spring cleaning routine but was surprised to find that when I pulled the trigger the second time (left barrel) the lock did not fire. I then opened and closed the barrels 3 times and each time the right lock cocked and snapped but the left one would not. I then carefully removed the locks to inspect them. Both locks looked fine and when I brought the hammers back of each one cocked as it should. I them inspected the lifters and they too looked fine. With each lock cocked I put them back in the gun and worked the trigger 3 times and each time the triggers worked perfectly, as usual. The fourth time, however the same thing happened---the trigger fired the right lock but the left lock would do nothing. I then opened the barrels again to cock the locks, and removed both of them. The right lock was in the cocked position but the left one was not. I then looked at the trigger bars I could see and the left trigger bar was up a little. I pressed on the left trigger bar and it went down. I then cocked the left lock and put both locks back in the gun in cocked position. I pulled the trigger twice and both locks fired. I then cocked the gun and fired it two times and the triggers works perfectly. The third time however same problem occurred when I pulled the trigger the right lock fired but the left one did not.
I am certainly no authority whatsoever on the complexities of Hunter One Non Selective Single trigger but I cannot understand why the second pull of the trigger sometimes fires the left lock but other times it doesn't does. When I take the left lock off after the trigger doesn't fire it, it isn't in a cocked position and the left trigger bar is up and seems not to have dropped down to the cocking position after it previously successfully fired the lock. Do the trigger bars drop down after firing by gravity or is there a spring I can't see that returns the trigger bars???????