12 ga 28 inch Trojan

[King Cobb]

Picked up this beauty this week.

Parker Trojan 200578, 12 bore, 28" uncut barrels. 14 1/4" LOP, 1 7/8" DAC, 2 3/4" DAH.

It has some nice case colors left on it, though it doesn't show up as well in my photos as it does in person.

The wood has a few nicks but nothing obnoxious. Barrels are good and bluing while not perfect is still nice.

It is a 28 inch 12 ga trojan which seem to me at least to be a bit rarer then the 30 inch variety.

In addition to being a nice gun, this Trojan somewhat represents progression for me in regards to my parker collecting.

A while back I had more or less gotten into buying quality or as more tenured parker collectors would say "buy the best condition parker you can afford." I have adopted this philosophy for the most part, except for buying Trojans. A cheap poor condition functional Trojan has always been hard to turn down. Cheap in this case being 600 bucks or less. I have bought and subsequently sold 6 such trojans. I do regret selling one of them, but other then that, after buying them I quickly grew to dislike their pitted actions or heavily sanded stocks or cut barrels and so off they went. I believe this Trojan is progress, it wasn't a cheapo special like the other ones and I recently even passed on such a trojan because it had loose barrels. Yes...Progress indeed.