Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:12 am
The LC Smith Hunter-One trigger was based on the Lard Patent single trigger that was already in use for some years on English Westley Richard guns. Here's a news clip dated September 1904. I have another reference, letter dated June 1905, stating its writer had used the Lard W-R single trigger "for three years now". Personally I doubt SxS single triggers were intro'd mainly in response to popular single trigger, single barrel guns like the 1897 Winchester pump gun. Probably very few 97's were to be seen on driven hunts in the British Isles.
Silvers

