Poll: DT vs ST
 

Rex got me thinking, so I decided to survey members of this board. So, how many DT vs ST guns are/have been owned by people on this site? I too have always heard that the number of each manufactured was around 50/50. I believe we see fewer DT guns for sale simply because more people prefer shooting them and therefore don't sell them. I've owned 8 Parker Reproductions, and all were DT. I didn't find any way to do a formal poll on this site, so I'll begin :corn::

DT:ST = 8:0

edited due to remembering one I never should have sold!

Two, both double

Two both single trigger guns.

1 DT

2 DT

I have one with a single trigger. Dad has two and one is double trigger and one single trigger

All together 12 DT and 2 SST. Currently 6 DT 0 SST.
Bob Jurewicz

1 single trigger

Ok, so the running total as of Heff's post is:

DT:ST = 26:7

Interesting stuff. Anyone else care to chime in?

All - 2 DT and 1 ST
Current - 2 DT
(Wish I hadn't sold the ST though!)

Three total - 2 DT and 1 ST
Still own both DT guns.




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Robin Lewis told me how to do a poll, but too late now. I'll know next time :)!

Now up to 30:9

3, all ST

(6) Single
(2) Double

DT vs ST
 

1 ST

I've owned approximately 20 repro's over the years and still have two. A 16/20 & a 28"-28ga.

All of them have been double trigger guns.

At this point it appears this thread is showing the bias here toward DT gun's. The greater majority you see for sale are single triggers.

Currently in the closet 9:1

I've owned 11
6 ST
5 DT
Current 2 DT
1 ST

10 28 ga
1 20 ga

I have to wonder if taking this survey here doesn't skew the results because original Parker's were DT and "we" collect them, thus we have a bias toward DT?

Regardless of period of manufacture or even manufacturer's name, I would still opt for a DT SXS... Period.

Choke/barrel selection is waay faster and more instinctive with a DT gun.






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Dean is spot on.
All DTs here (as in both).
Best Fishes, Steve

+1



Mechanical simplicity/reliability along with instant choke selection be good :)

All I can tell you now is what is now in the vault, 8 ST, 17 Dt. I think :shock:

My 20 gauge has a single trigger.

Eric is the man. 25 Repros and we wonder why double trigger 28s are hard to find. I personally don't care. I own one double trigger beavertail straight grip two barrel 28 and really don't need another unless it is a "deal". I bought mine during the selloff when people said they couldn't get what they wanted. I think the potential customers at that time didn't give enough effort on the phone. That's how I got mine and I could have had many more, but was not smart enough.

The results may be skewed, but I doubt it has anything to do with original Parkers. I've never owned one, and I wouldn't call myself a "collector." I buy guns to hunt with; if I don't use them, I sell them. I, like Dean and many of you, will only own double trigger double barrel shotguns. I even had Rich Cole convert my Beretta Diamond Pigeon 687 EELL O/U to double triggers (does an over/under count as a "double ;)"?).

Yup it does.




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Wow - that's quite a few PRs!

Sorry, I included two Scotish DT guns and two English in those totals....

I have several ST repros, a few DTs, wish they all had DTs. All my other SxSs have DTs.

I have two and both are DT.

Well, I give up. The closest I can count, the tally is now DT:ST 85:35, or around 71% DT. I guess we know where all the missing DT guns are :p!

I would have converted the Miller single trigger gun back to double triggers, but the Sears were bent in the conversion.

3 ST

4 ST
2 DT

It seems that the DT/SST poll has cooled. What became apparent to me was that many of us have owned or do own Repros with SST.
Since SST reliability has gained a poor reputation could we who have owned them address our experience with reliable function?
MINE WORKED FLAWLESSLY.
Bob Jurewicz

3 ST

My single trigger A1 wasn't functional when new, it would only fire the bottom barrel. The dealer I purchased it from had me send it back and a few weeks later it was returned, working.

This is an interesting thred (to say the least). Britain in the early 1900s, late 1890s, tried to build a reliable single trigger. Obviously this was not for instaneous choke selection since a lot of the high end guns were used for driven shooting. Double triggers are simple and reliable. However, I'm sure the other gunmakers did not want to bel "inferior" and moved to a single trigger.

DTs are simple and reliable and not needed for most shooting. How many actually care about about the instaneous choke selection? Were the original Parker single triggers that reliable?

To me, DTs are the correct approach, but modern STs are very reliable on a two barrel gun.
Ken

I delight in the ability to chose the choke with double triggers. At sporting clays and in the field I will often chose the rear trigger first for a far bird or a going away leaving the open choke for the crosser. I most always shoot the tight barrel for going away birds.