Lanber selective safety

[Guttersnipe]

This is probably very straight forward but your advice would be welcome.

 

I bought a Lanber sporting Deluxe, O/U single trigger ejector, off here about two months ago but just haven't had the chance to use it yet, this is the first Lander i've owned and the first gun with a push accross "switch" on the sliding safety - the rest of my shotguns the safety pushes up and across as a whole or are double triggered (excluding the S/A's).

 

My question is that on selecting a barrel on the safety and sliding the safety catch forward/off, that barrel fires but then the second barrel will not fire without sliding the selector switch back across to select the second barrel which then fires normally. I believed the selector switch just chose the first barrel fired, after this is discharged the second pull of the trigger fired the second barrel - this is what happens on my guns where the entire safety slides over to select.

 

I've only dry fired it and used snap caps so wondered if the recoil of a live shell was required to move to the second barrel.

 

I hope this is clear, I just want to identify if it has a fault. i can and will of course take it out when i get a chance but my shooting at this time of year is wildfowling and its too far of a walk to carry two guns or just one and have it not work.

 

Any thought welcome. Thanks

 

[PhilR]

You've got an inertia block trigger mechanism. So the recoil of the first barrel firing allows the trigger to fire the second barrel.

You can dry fire test it by pulling the trigger to fire the first barrel and then smartly hitting the butt pad with your hand or tap it on the floor. This will provide the effect of recoil and allow the trigger to fire the second barrel.

[Silver pig]

You've got an inertia block trigger mechanism. So the recoil of the first barrel firing allows the trigger to fire the second barrel.spot on

You can dry fire test it by pulling the trigger to fire the first barrel and then smartly hitting the butt pad with your hand or tap it on the floor. This will provide the effect of recoil and allow the trigger to fire the second barrel.

[Guttersnipe]

Thanks very much guys - i thought it may be that, but good to have it confirmed. i'll take it out Sunday morning and test it on the geese as said i just didn't want to walk all the way out and wait for those rare opportunities, only for it to "play-up"

 

Much appreciated - GS

[Dakers]

One thing I found when taking my Lanber Sporting Deluxe out for the first time when still very new, was that my mount wasn't solid enough to allow the inertia block trigger mechanism to kick over correctly. I'd fire the first shot, and then nothing for the second. Once I was mounting correctly all was fine.