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Unread 09-24-2018, 03:54 PM   #1
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Occasionally it occurs, but not often, that you encounter a nice old honest gun that you really don't need but price says you can't pass it up.

So it is with this trojan I picked up. She isn't a beauty queen by any since, but she is in decent condition. The forearm has had some work done on it, apparently someone tried to yank off the forearm and ended up pulling the metal out with it. The repair is visible but not bad, the refinish is what it is, but the price was agreeable and she's got some nice honest condition.

Barrels are clean, metal on action is discolored but free from pits, buttplate and screws are original, barrels are factory length, there are some remnants of case color still on the old girl. 1928 model with the proof marks on the barrel flats.

Wasn't looking for it, but like I say sometimes they just have to come home with you.
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I owned a pristine 20 ga Trojan with a similar puncture in the forend. Apparantly some guys used their Parkers to hold down the bottom strand of barbed wire when stepping through a fence.
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I was betting they just tried to yank the forend off and the wood came out with the metal.
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I was betting they just tried to yank the forend off and the wood came out with the metal.
You may be right but the smaller hole appears to be a puncture. If these guns could only talk.
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sorry misunderstood what you were referring to. Yeah that is a likely source of the puncture.

I have crossed many a barbwire fence in my days, have yet to lean a gun on the wire.
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sorry misunderstood what you were referring to. Yeah that is a likely source of the puncture.

I have crossed many a barbwire fence in my days, have yet to lean a gun on the wire.
Neither did I. My dad taught me better. Guess not everyone were so schooled.
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Forend lug went theough the bottom of the wood. How??? Don’t ask me.
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I just finished up a Trojan with the same problem but much larger. If the checkering is redone right, that blemish will dissappear. The checkering has to be taken down so all is level and then re-cut. I would challenge anyone to find where the blemish is on my gun. It all but dissappeared. I fitted the blemished wood in with glass bedding compound colored with the same stain as the rest of the stock which I refinished. You can checker over glass bedding compound and the line will virtually dissappear when restained and brushed with oil. It is not a hard fix.
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The last one of those I had to repair, I inlaid in a large diamond of wood, where the seams fell right on the lines of the checkering. Once finished up, you would never know it was repaired.
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There is just something about a Trojan...it may have only been what an old guy could afford but it put meat on the table for a long time and I'm sure if asked what is that, the words "It's a Parker!" was heard just as proudly as if it had been an A grade. I recently bought a well used 20 Trojan but the condition says someone was proud and took excellent care of it for many years and it fits me as well as anything in the safe!
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