doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Calling all Parker Repro SINGLE TRIGGER owners!

That is not a revelation, thats pretty much a given.

Single trigger 28ga. owned from 1996-2001. Extensively hunted. Never had a problem. I'd give my left one to have it back for what I sold it for....

Larry, Larry, Larry...DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!

I will admit, you did state one time, and one time only, that I can recall---and that was a very long, long time ago, you went down on record stating that the SST Repro problems were usually taken care of with a simple cleaning. Here's a friendly reminder: from this moment going forward, Don and I will be monitoring each and every one of your posts just to make sure you toe-the-line regarding this issue. Please, in future discussions regarding SST Repros, qualify your statements---and for your wellbeing, do not slip up! DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!

Now, if you want to bring up issues with SST'ers and SKB's...I once owned an Ithaca/SKB Model 400 that developed a doubling problem, no one that I knew of could get it fixed, subsequently I was able to dump it. If that gun had been a Parker Repro, it probably never would have had the problem, but if it did, all it probably would have taken was a strip and clean to solve it. Maybe we should start a new thread..."Calling all SKB SINGLE TRIGGER owners!".

Well Greg, since all SKB's (except the Royals) are SST guns, wouldn't "Calling all SKB SINGLE TRIGGER owners!" be redundant? And you must not have responded to my long ago (I think I did the articles in Shooting Sportsman on SKB's in about 2003) SKB trigger thread.

It's amazing, Don, even though you admit that it's a "given" that DT guns have fewer trigger issues than ST guns, that some people will continue to protest when someone points out problems with the specific ST in question. So it's "only" a strip and clean that's required? Well, how about if the owner takes it to Dick the Ham-Handed Gunsmith? Even Greg admitted previously that the wrong smith might make a simple problem worse. And there are quite a few reports, right on this thread, of that "simple" problem. I'm not going to figure the %, but if we assume there are maybe 10,000 SST Repros out there and the rate of "simple problems" runs the same as it has on this thread, then you're talking about hundreds of "simple problems".

Since the DT option is available, one can hardly dispute the advice that the best way to avoid the ST issue is to buy a DT gun.

I look at the SST Repro issue similarly to that of changing the oil in your vehicle. Should we stop buying vehicles because they may need the routine maintenance of an oil change?

Greg, ALL vehicles need oil changes. From the threads on SST and DT Repros, it would appear that not ALL Repros need routine trigger maintenance. Why not buy the one that doesn't need routine trigger maintenance?

The thread we should start--and one that's always intrigued me--is this: why are SST's on OU's less problematic than those on sxs? Is it some inherent design issue?

I apologize for my innability to post the following picture of a panel of Parker Repro SST owners discussing the possibility of problems with their guns. Perhaps someone with some computer saavy can help.

http://newzar.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/hear-see-speak-no-evil1.jpg

Apparently there are three things you don't discuss in polite company. Politics, Religion and Parker Repro SST's.

I would refine the question: "Why are SSTs on Beretta 68Xs and Browning Citoris and Superposeds less prblematic than those on SxSs?"

I have had trouble with the triggers on a Berretta ASE 90 Gold Trap, a Beretta SO5, a Marocchi, an SKB and probably others I can't remember right now. The regulars at the gun club mainly shoot Perazzis. About half of them carry a spare trigger plate assembly to pop in when the original goes out. But the guys shooting the Bertta 68Xs and the Brownings shoot them forever.

Best,

Mike

Other than SKB OU's, with which I've never had problems, I haven't owned any of the guns you mentioned, Mike. Several Beretta 686's (and predecessors) and Citoris, 101's, a couple Superposeds. I did have problems with a FAIR failing to fire the 2nd barrel if I shot the top barrel first. Only OU ST issue I can recall. (And on FAIRs, DT's were an option.)

Some years ago, I and two of my hunting friends shot Citoris on days too bad to take out a nicer gun. From time to time we all had problems with the safety/barrel selector. Sometimes it would jamb between safe and the barrel being selected. Don't know if this has been fixed as I haven't had a Citori for decades.