Period Correctness question

[Ornery Orr]

I'm looking at the Spartan SP-210 Cowboy Action that is being imported by Remington www.spartangunworks.com and was curious if a single trigger side by side existed back in the day.  I've seen a few doubles in my short life and they all seem to have two triggers.  I like the looks of this shotgun but don't want to get one if it stands to be outlawed in a future congress meeting.

[Quick Fire]

Ornery Orr, I'd advise against buying any gun unless it is on the approved list. However any member can bring up a petion to have a gun approved. Just bring pictures or the gun to the next Congress meeting. Show documentation that it is a copy of an original{2 forms of documentation} and have it submitted to the Congress for approval.

[Silver Creek Slim]

OO,
I'm not sure when single trigger SxS's came into existence.
The Rem Spartans are the old EAA Bounty Hunters made by Baikal. I think EAA lost the exclusive contract to import these in the US.
Savage imported these for awhile and sold them as the Stevens 411, but it is not in the current catalog.
The Spartan comes in several different models. The SPR220 Blued has internal hammers and double triggers. The SPR220 Cowboy Action has mule-ears and double triggers.
http://www.spartangunworks.com/sidebyside.htm

Slim

[Wymore Wrangler]

The modern recoil pad would make it automatically illegal, unless you covered it up with a leather butt stock cover, we've debated the single trigger issue here several times and if memory serves me correctly, there were single trigger doubles during our later timeframe, but only on very expensive shotguns and probably weren't common on the frontier...   Merry Christmas Tony and Cinda...

[Will Sellit]

I may be missing something but I do not see a modern recoil pad on these guns. A modern recoil pad as described in the NCOWS unapproved list is said to have a white spacer and I don't see that on the pictures of these Spartan shotguns. May just be my eyes.
Recoil Pads (lace on, slip on and mounted) were available during our time period as shown in the reproductions of the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs.
Personally, I do not like the looks of a recoil pad on my guns, and I have a hammered double that has one and I did what Wymore said and covered it up. I really don't care for the looks of the cover either.
I think the single trigger may have been invented and was available on a limited basis, but I sure have not seen a picture of one.

Will Sellit
NCOWS 1799

[Ornery Orr]

I was talking to a gunsmith friend of mine last night and Slim is correct.  They are Baikal's.  The difference is supposedly Reminton has someone over there stepping up the quality assurance.  Should be a little better.  My brother has a 411 and it seems pretty good so maybe they did the same thing then that Remington is doing now.  The recoil pad isn't a problem.  Like Wymore said, I'll cover it up with a lace on pad from Cabelas anyway.  My main concern was the single trigger design.  Just curious if it fits our time frame.  If not then I'll just keep shooting my hammered Rossi Coachgun.