Bill, you should probably eschew the 16 at all costs. Once you buy the first one and see the light, you'll look at that 12 like it has weevils, or some such. :rotf:

I don't know. I grew up shooting a 20ga A5, but those things don't go boom loud enough for me anymore :)

Next to Parkers, A5's rule. I have one with a buck barrel that enabled me to drop 2 deer in front of me last year out of a pack of 4 deer. Shoots like a rifle! You can't but love that ker bang noise the action makes when shooting. A classic. But 16 doubles rule still.

That Trojan is a lot of gun for the money!

The biggest issue with my dad's 60s Era A5s is for a 20 gauge they kick about like a 10. They are great quail guns.

Allen,
The catalogs stated 28" barrels were regularly bored M/F "but other borings may be had if desired." Yes it sounds like something Parker would produce but it might check out M/F if measured or patterned.
Erick

Thanks Eric, I may visit the gun shop tomorrow and will bring my gauge to measure the chokes as well as bores. It just struck me as odd that the 28 inch barrels would be full and full. I would have thought full and full would more likely be on a longer barrel set say 30 inches. The barrels still have the barrel band at the end of the rib so they're not uncut barrels. The gun was owned by a gent on Cape Cod and he may have ordered it this way for ducks. If the serial number is not in the book (I have checked), would a letter be possible still?

I dunno....the first 'grownup' shotgun I had was an A5. After I started buying Parkers I sold the A5 as fast as I could. Something about that action cycling - the term 'claptrap' comes to mind - made it something I had no desire to shoot anymore.

210401 for a research request states there is no info available for a letter.
Information for a letter is sometimes available even if not listed in the Serialization book.
Erick

A bargain in my opinion.