Got the Trojan Home...

[Wayne Johnson]

Picked it up out of layaway today. At best poor pictures. I'm sure it's been refinished, but it seems to have been well done.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b292/CajunBass/Guns/100_0823_zpssaay4xcd.jpg (http://s21.photobucket.com/user/CajunBass/media/Guns/100_0823_zpssaay4xcd.jpg.html)

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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b292/CajunBass/Guns/100_0830_zpstp6q3et2.jpg (http://s21.photobucket.com/user/CajunBass/media/Guns/100_0830_zpstp6q3et2.jpg.html)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b292/CajunBass/Guns/100_0825_zpsmzebrgry.jpg (http://s21.photobucket.com/user/CajunBass/media/Guns/100_0825_zpsmzebrgry.jpg.html)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b292/CajunBass/Guns/100_0832_zpsah9fjlfd.jpg (http://s21.photobucket.com/user/CajunBass/media/Guns/100_0832_zpsah9fjlfd.jpg.html)

I hadn't even wiped it down when I took these pictures. It looks even better with the fingerprints and such off it. I hope to figure out a place to take better pictures soon.

[greg conomos]

Looks really nice

[Dean Romig]

That's a darn nice Trojan.





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[Gary Laudermilch]

Nice Trojan. Now the fun begins!

[allen newell]

Very Nice. What gauge?

[Wayne Johnson]

Oh sorry. It's a 12.

[Eric Eis]

Yes bad pics but I don't think the gun has been refinished, yes somebody tried to polish the receiver, but varnish on the stock and the blue on the barrels look original. Looks to me like a really nice gun

[Wayne Johnson]

Really? That's interesting. Somewhere or other I got the impression the receiver should have been casehardened and the rest of the gun looked so good I figured it HAD to have been refinished.

[allen newell]

hard to tell from the pictures, but if the stock has been refinished, they made it look very original. otherwise, it looks honest. nice Trojan. now you need to find a 20o ga trojan

[Brian Dudley]

Really? That's interesting. Somewhere or other I got the impression the receiver should have been casehardened and the rest of the gun looked so good I figured it HAD to have been refinished.



The frame was case hardened and is. The colors are just worn off. The surface hardening is still there though.

It looks to me like your frame may not be silver from simple wear. Someone likely worked it over and polished the colors off.

I would suspect the barrels and surely the trigger guard have been reblued on your gun. And maybe the stock refinished or finish freshened up at one time.

[Jerry Harlow]

Nice gun. From Greentop?

[Wayne Johnson]

No. Hopkins in Mechanicsville.

[charlie cleveland]

nice gun this gun will serve you well through the years...

[Phil Yearout]

My, but that's a pretty gun! It's not that I don't drool over the high end stuff, but a good old field grade - and the stories it could tell - is what really blows my skirt up. Shoot it long and well Sir!

[Wayne Johnson]

The frame was case hardened and is. The colors are just worn off. The surface hardening is still there though.

It looks to me like your frame may not be silver from simple wear. Someone likely worked it over and polished the colors off.

I would suspect the barrels and surely the trigger guard have been reblued on your gun. And maybe the stock refinished or finish freshened up at one time.

That's what I thought when I first saw the gun. It just looked "too good" and the seller did say he thought it had been refinished. It looked good to me, so I would be happy with it either way.

I'm not a real "shotgun guy." I normally use a shotgun for deer hunting with buckshot, and maybe doves a couple times a year, and have used the same Sears-Roebuck/Mossberg 500 for thirty-five years, so this is all new to me.

[Dean Romig]

Well, you're really going to fall in love with that Trojan. I started hunting with a Steven's single shot 20 but graduated to a borrowed Trojan 12 when I was thirteen. I hunted with that Trojan exclusively for three years when the owner moved to Idaho and asked to have it back.
I wish I still had it.





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[Russ Jackson]

My first Parker was a Trojan 16 Gauge with the little Dolls Head Extension like yours , Great looking Gun Wayne !!!!!! ENJOY !:)

[Alfred Greeson]

Nice gun. To re-case harden is one thing but keeping the wood nice and your blue on the barrels may be original. I would say someone used it but took excellent care of that gun. I have read many stories of Parkers that were redone by the factory a number of times. If you could afford the high grade guns, you did not want to have them looking worn but someone who was proud to own his Parker may have just taken good care of that one. Enjoy, you are now the caretaker of a nice Trojan for the next generation.

[Wayne Johnson]

Any particular type of ammo I should use, or avoid in a gun this old? I know my grandfather used to shoot 2 3/4" magnum buckshot in his A.H. Fox double that he said he got in the nineteen-teens or so (with Krupp Steel barrels he was quick to tell me), but that was him and this is me about fifty years later or so. I'm not planning on the buckshot but don't want to damage the gun, steel or wood.

[allen newell]

Wayne, I have several Trojans and regularly shoot 1 oz loads with them. I don't shoot any loads heavier. Not saying they couldn't handle a larger load but just prefer 1 oz for all of my field shooting as well as on skeet and five stand

[Russ Jackson]

Wayne ,I like RST for all my Old Parker's ,I like the idea of the lite recoil on the older wood of the stock where it meets the receiver ,just my opinion on this ! You may also consider Polywad Spreaders I have a feeling that Trojan will pattern pretty tight !