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I have an SST and look over the shoulder of my uncle who also has an SST Repro, and neither has had problems. I know both have fired "thousands," but anything beyond that would be a guess.

Elsewhere, I know of a Repro that had a trigger problem, but it showed up very early on. My second hand knowledge of Repro single triggers is similar, that if there is a problem lurking out there, you won't have to wait long to find it. On the other hand, if it works right while you burn up the first couple of flats, it's going to be clear sailing.

I think there may be something to 5E's statement. If you buy an unfired Repro, or maybe one that's been shot very little, it could simply be a question of "crud" gunking things up. That was clearly the situation with one of mine, which I solved very nicely with an application of Crud Cutter, after which I had no problems. It was not the situation with the other one, however. One was a 12, the other 28, so gauge doesn't seem to matter. But I did have a 20 that caused me no problems, although I did not put nearly as many rounds through it as either the 12 or the 28.

There was a rumour circulating a few years ago that when Tom Skeuse was having Winchester's Olin-Kodensha plant develop the Repro that Skeuse obtained a 20-gauge DHE Remington-built Parker from Del Grego's shop that was in for a doubling problem and it was this very gun that was cloned for the Repro and it was such a perfect copy that the cloned guns also doubled!...maybe there was something to this rumour?

As an aside, one of my Repro's (a 28) is a single trigger gun, it has never doubled---yet!

Nice endorsement Dean- is it true then that internal parts are interchangeable (albiet with a minor fit/filing) with original Parkers? Both Meriden and Ilion Mfg. Parkers??

Claims were made in Repro promotional material that there was a high degree of interchangability between original Parker parts and Repro parts, and such promotional material pictured parts cabinets full of Repro parts. Claims were made that these parts would be available for purchase by anyone, but this was not to be. I can't remember any particular claim that single trigger parts were as interchangable with original Parker parts as other parts.

Sadly. all those bins of parts were destroyed when the warehouse they were stored in was flooded.

Somewhere in my pile of gun ephemera are some Remington letters circa 1948-1954 responding to inquiries about Parker parts and they all state that the parts they had required some fitting and some parts had to be fitted at the Remington factory. They offered stocks that had been rough turned also.This must have been before Mr. del Grego bought all the parts.Apparently few,if any, parts were a drop in fix.

Given the advances in machining from the 1930's to the 80's, I'm guessing that spare parts for the Repro were much more likely to be a drop in fix than for the originals. But sadly, as Don reports, those parts are history.

Larry, I believe it was you that told me the same receivers were used for the CD 201. Would parts between them and Parker Repros interchange, either with or without minor fitting?

Skip

I had one of them 201s. You might be able to use some of the screws, springs, and replaceable bolt plate, but that's about it. The 201 is "Parker Repro x Winchester 21 mutant offspring".