Filling up the gun safe

[chazcole]

I guess I can now call myself a Parker collector since I have more than one now. I just picked up my second gun a 1929 Trojan 16ga with 28" barrels choked F/F. It has a 14" LOP and weights 6lbs 10oz. Cant wait to get it in the grouse woods. I know I'll probably be chastised but I'm considering sending it to Brad Bachelder and having the chokes opened to M/IC.

[Mills Morrison]

Good job! You might try it with spreader loads first, as a bunch of folks do that with success.

[Stephen Hodges]

What Mills said

[Daryl Corona]

[QUOTE=chazcole;176677 I know I'll probably be chastised but I'm considering sending it to Brad Bachelder and having the chokes opened to M/IC.[/QUOTE]

Consider yourself chastised.:eek: Try the spreaders first.

[William Davis]

Spreaders, I have the same gun and spreader loads deliver all the open anybody needs. Two kinds of shells in your bag you can load for long or short in a flash.

William

[James L. Martin]

Spreaders , Spreaders and Spreaders. RST and Polywad make them or you can order the inserts from Polywad and load them yourself, very easy too do, I have loaded 12,16 and 20 for many years, just look for a load with pressure on the low side as the inserts will bump up the pressure a little. Also use cheap soft lead for best results on close shots.

[Phil Yearout]

Love it! Looks like a near twin to mine (1924, 28", M/F, 6lbs-9oz). As others have said, I have used spreaders and they have worked well for me. Enjoy it!!

Sorry about the huge photo. It's the same size as all the others in my photobucket; don't know why it shows up huge here. I tried this pic on another site and it was fine; then I previewed other pics in this post and they were fine. I even did a full shut down and reboot and typed the post all again; still huge! So sorry...

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/prairieschooner/Temps/1c55d2f1-135e-448a-a8da-c00001ecd6e3_zpsf731b363.jpg

[Mills Morrison]

Good picture Phil. Looks like home page picture material

[Phil Yearout]

Now the size is OK? :vconfused:

[wayne goerres]

Bigger is better.

[Eric Grims]

I grew up with a mind set that a modified choke was an open choke. When I shoot RST spreaders in all my fulll and wicked full Parkers I get a very consistent modified pattern at 35-40 yards that gives me a lot of confidence in a choke I am used to with no need to bore a gun.
If you really want to open a gun I suggest maybe do one barrel. I just got back from a day of pigeon shooting with a British 16 choked cylinder and full. True select trigger for near and far and becoming more and more a desirable combination. I love it. Not a radical combo at all.

[William Davis]

My spreader loads are useful under 20 yards. Example of what you can do longer shots with factory chokes, Patterned my 16 G Trojan few days ago. Right modified barrel 3/4 oz 7 1/2 at 25 yards no spreader insert produced very good game load patterns. If the shell was loaded with 1 1/8'oz modified would probably put too many pellets in a bird ruining it for the table. Of course had the gun been open choked and 1 1/8 oz pattern spread would be wider with shot density about like the 3/4 oz loads

Do I need a wider spread at 25 ? IC choke might give the gun another 12 inches spread. When I miss its much more than 12 inches, pattern won't save a bad shot. Choosing your load you can make that Parker do just about anything. Spend some time on paper with that Trojan get to know it well then decide.

William

[Daryl Corona]

Great advice Bill. I've always believed that choke is measured in inches, misses are measured in feet.

[Bill Murphy]

Perfect full screen sizing on my screen. I do love my Trojans.

[Dean Romig]

Very nice - and I like the book too, a Derrydale reprint of the original 1930 book by Eugene Connett.

A vendor had the original Derrydale at his booth at Rock Mountain. I may call him...





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[Phil Yearout]

Thanks all; didn't mean to hijack chazcole's thread. I was just happy to see that my old 16 has a sister out there!

When I was making the post and previewed it the thing was huge; would barely fit on the page. I thought that's the way it was gonna look; I even did it over 2 or 3 times and tried tests on other sites. So I added the apology; then when I made the post it went to an acceptable size. Computers are so confusing for old folks :banghead:!

I bought the whole series of those books when they came out; "The 50 Greatest Books of the Derrydale Press". It was a sporting Book-of-the-Month club; neat editions for those of us who can't afford the real deal. Pretty subjective as to what constitutes the 50 greatest I suppose; I wish they hadn't stopped at 50. They've exposed me to a number of writers I wouldn't have known about otherwise

[Harry Collins]

One of the many things that wake me up in a sweat is having opened up a choke in a Parker. I was given a GH on a 1 1/2 frame that had a broken stock etc and had been refitted with 28" Vulcan barrels. I put them on another GH and shot it at everything. Thirty odd years ago I had the left barrel opened to improved cylinder (.010) for sporting clays. I had no idea what it was before, but I sure wish I had never done it. The right barrel is .012.

[Rich Anderson]

I'd definitely try spreaders. Don't open the chokes, once it's done there is no going back:nono: