Double discharge

[Dorset Deer]

Hi all,
I went clay shooting today and twice my gun double discharged?
any simple things I could look at or ideas why?

 

[T.eddie]

I've seen this happen if you hold the trigger down when shooting some shotguns/ not releasing the trigger far enough

 

[deerstalker.308]

What’s the gun?

 

[Pedro]

You don't say what type of gun it is, but obviously a double barrelled one. if it's a single trigger with an inertia system, it might be a matter of adjusting that. It has been known that people have adjusted their guns so that they will work better with small loads, 24gs for example. It also might happen with an old gun, double trigger when the triggers are a bit light and you put more powerful cartridges through it.

Unless you are happy taking your gun apart, it's probably best to let a gunsmith have a look. I don't imagine it'll be anything too expensive.

 

[Apthorpe]

Following a recent long thread on accidental discharges, it's my opinion that the ONLY responsible course of action is getting it checked over by a good gunsmith.
Quite a lot of dangerous accidental discharges result from faults with a gun (some which the owner knew about), or from the owner trying to work out what the problem was.
I realise it's not the sort of answer you wanted to hear.

 

[deerstalker.308]

Some guns, I recall zabala possibly had a fun little feature if you pulled the rear trigger first you got both barrels for some reason.....

 

[Scandially]

My Beretta 28b EELL done it. It gets worse and needs looking at.

 

[martin_b]

With my Perazzi trap gun i can make it happen on demand. Wear a thick "bouncy" coat and dont pull the gun hard into your shoulder. ( Tweed works well) basicaly youve now got a bump stock for a shotgun.

If its going to happen when I don expect it it will be on fast high diven birds when the gun moves a quicker than my old body and the gun leaves the shoulder.

 

[Scandially]

Is that not a lock out not a double discharge?

 

[Dorset Deer]

It’s a 12g Betinsolli o/u.
It hasn’t gone off as per an accidental discharge, but both barrels went off as I shot the first clay.
will be booked in early next week with a gunsmith, but never had this happen before.

 

[Dorset Deer]

What’s the gun?

Betinsolli 12g o/u

 

[Tim.243]

Hi all,
I went clay shooting today and twice my gun double discharged?
any simple things I could look at or ideas why?

if the selector is worn/dirty(grime) then it could have been in the middle so both went off...

 

[Dorset Deer]

if the selector is worn/dirty(grime) then it could have been in the middle so both went off...

Thank you. I did mess about with that before hand.

 

[Tim.243]

Thank you. I did mess about with that before hand.

My browning did it as the action was full of grime from a lot of use over the years, i had the stock off held it up and pin pointed some gt85 and could see the **** being washed off. left it to dry and put a small amount of white grease on the barrel selector.

 

[paul o']

If you know how remove the stock flush it and you could have a weak tumbler spring or crap on a sear's ect ? what happens if you swap barrels worth a test .

 

[spannulman]

I’m afraid I don’t know what the fix is but I was looking at buying a bettensoli before I bought a beretta and a friend d said they were known for these double discharges. That was 2008. There ought to be a known fix by the maker I should think. Can you go back to them,or the shop you bought it from?

 

[bfltd0]

First shotgun I bought (with dad's money) was a Hungarian FEG over/under 12b ejector. Generally behaved itself but.................

It had a single selective trigger with a push button through the top back of the trigger. If the barrel selector wasn't definitively pushed to the extreme of left or right, it would occasionally double.

I remember (in the late 70s) talking to a gunsmith about fixing it but this was a shotgun from behind the Iron Curtain and he didn't want to sort it out for less than it cost me to buy.

Certainly made me remember to keep that selector pushed over fully one way or the other.

 

[PMA]

My shotgun did it once !
cut the rabbit in half

 

[riflerob]

There was a known fault on some Bettinsoli O/U guns where this could happen - check that the safety (which is your 'first shot' selector too) is ALL the way to one side or the other. If it's 'in the middle' then this is far more likely to happen.

Any competent gunsmith will probably know about this and be able to rectify it - like you, I've got a Bettinsoli, and it happened to me a couple of times too.

 

[Dorset Deer]

There was a known fault on some Bettinsoli O/U guns where this could happen - check that the safety (which is your 'first shot' selector too) is ALL the way to one side or the other. If it's 'in the middle' then this is far more likely to happen.

Any competent gunsmith will probably know about this and be able to rectify it - like you, I've got a Bettinsoli, and it happened to me a couple of times too.

Thanks, it wasn’t all the way over to one side.
I have moved it now, will see how it goes