Your Trojan sounds to be a very decent Parker. Congratulations!
We sure would like to see some pictures of it and we’d sure like to see that case it came in.
A Trojan is a very stout gun and you can shoot most any shell in it but we don’t recommend shooting steel shot until you can determine how it is choked. Steel shot is purported to be rather unkind to full chokes. 2 3/4” are fine in your Trojan - that’s what I used to shoot in the 12 gauge, 28” Trojan I used to shoot back in about ‘60 or so. Heavy or magnum loads are a bit stiff to be shooting in a gun that age, only because the stock head may chip or split, the wood being about 100 years old.
A lot of us shoot 2 1/2” shells in our old guns just to be easy on them.
Have fun shooting it!
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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