Do you think percussion double shooters said this center fire madness will end In time and then they will return to their percussion doubles? I am sure some did.
We like archaic relics. We don't care about state of the art. Our state of the art was perfected a hundred years ago. So when we see others flock to plastic guns, to O/U or other non doubles we can't be surprised. Others chase state of the art just as much as we cling to SxS.
I don't think sxs are all that "archaic". OU's have actually been around for a long time. Just took longer for them to catch on. And it took longer to make a reliable single trigger. But, assuming equal quality in both guns, double triggers will always have at least a slight edge in reliability. So, you wed the most popular design (OU) to the most reliable trigger (double) . . . and you look hard to find very many of them on the market. Especially new.
