Poll: DT vs ST

[Quigley97]

I have two and both are DT.

[Joe Bernfeld]

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 !

[Harry Collins]

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

[CHE]

3 ST

[Donovan Kirkpatrick]

4 ST
2 DT

[Bob Jurewicz]

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

[PML]

3 ST

[Rex Northen]

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.

[Ken Hill]

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

[Harry Collins]

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.