New Parker owner from Missouri.

[Joe from MO]

Hello all, thanks for letting me get signed up.

Just picked up my first Parker last week. It's a 1926 Parker Trojan 12ga with 30" M/F barrels. I had been looking for a decent Trojan or VH for many years now, that was not more than I wanted to spend. Finally ran across a nice Trojan a little over a week ago, and all I can say is I am very happy with the purchase. She's not perfect but in very good shootable condition, and best I can tell all original. Looks like a gun that was carried a lot, but maybe not shot so much.... Wood appears to be in original condition, same with metal. Locks up real tight, and barrels have a nice ring to them.

I have been slowing trying to pick up one of each of the great American SxS's over the last 5-6 years. I now own a 1926 AH Fox Sterlingworth 16ga Philly gun, that according to serial # is the 10,000 Fox SW 16ga. A nice LC Smith
FWT 16ga from 1940, A Lefever Nitro(not a real Lefever but an Ithaca) 16ga from 1946 that I bought for my son when he completed Nuke School with the Navy, this gun is all but new condition, and an Ithaca NID 12ga with 30" M/F chokes that is in excellent condition as well.

I know somewhere buried in this forum is a lot of good information on Parkers, I guess my first question would be, what are some solid pheasant/Duck loads people have shot in their Parkers. I don't want to over do it. RST Bismuth are $65 a box, but if that's best option, so be it.