Why a SST on a double gun?

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

Single triggers have been around since the late 1800s. Parker first used the cranky Lefler patented SST. Pages 140-142 of The Parker Story covers this improvement in gun design very well. The Parker catalog of 1920 shows a single trigger used in their SBT trap gun. The first catalog showing the SST as an option is in 1926 according to the Muderlak - Parker Guns-The Old Reliable (page 70).

There were some car dealers that never believed the differential drive train improvement on 1900s era cars would supplant the cog and link drive chains used on earlier cars. Some of us still insist on fishing with bamboo fly rods. OMG - some people still shoot 140 year old SxS guns with double triggers. There are even some people who actually drink Scotch that's 18 years old. Go figure!

[edgarspencer]

I wouldn't pay a lot extra for a Parker with a single trigger, mainly because I love to hunt with my guns. I also love shooting them at sporting clays, but not for the competitive nature of the game; just the sheer fun of shooting Parkers.
There are those who take clay shooting very seriously and you would never get any of them to shoot a double trigger gun.
I never could figure why there was a SxS trap gun, but maybe that was before the advent of the single barrel trap gun. A skeet shooter won't lift his head, or at least he shouldn't between the first shot and the second, but when we're hunting, and are fortunate to get a second shot, when we weren't fortunate enough to down the bird with the first, or in the case of a possible double, we almost always raise our head, so the motion of sliding to the rear trigger is of no consequence.
As with almost anything, it's horses for courses.

[John Davis]

One day on a "hot" dove field and double triggers will no longer be a problem. I own one single trigger gun and that's for guests to use who are not double trigger savvy. I personally prefer double triggers but as my dad would say, "that's why they make chocolate and vanilla."

[Bill Murphy]

John, I know your dove field is a Parker only situation. I will honor that rule if I am invited. I will shoot a single shot on my first day there, a Parker SC with a Cutts compensator with the improved cylinder tube installed.