Dean, I love those 20ga Trojan's , I have 2 and I believe they are the best deal for a 20ga S x S.

I have 2 20 gauge Trojans and 1 12. Maybe one day I'll get a 16.

...if you exclude a Repro, I'll agree. :corn:





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I want one.... :D

Dean, how about a couple more photos of the Trojan. Agreed with all the other fans of the Trojan and the fact it's the last good deal in subguage vintage SxSs and even they are a thing of the past as since I bought mine 6 months ago even Trojan prices are going out of site. I've got an LC Smith and Ithaca NID in 16g as well but the the Parker has quickly become the favorite. Guy that I bought it from said he thought that DelGrego did the restoration but I spoke to Larry on the phone and sent him photos. Said it wasn't his work but whoever did it did a really nice job. Said it looked to him like a early Turnbull maybe and to call him. Just haven't got around to it yet. Had my gunsmith replace the broken safety and put a 3/4" pad on it. Also just had the chokes opened to IC and MOD. Have only shot it one time but it's gonna make a hell of a grouse gun. Just curious curious about other Trojans now. Mine has 28" barrels

Okay Walter... Here you go...


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Dean:

Thank you, but that's just a start in this jurisdiction. You know we like water table and barrel flats, too.

"The book" says factory 26-inch barrels, which is kind of special for a 16-gauge Trojan, isn't it?

Russell,
Twenty-six inch barrels on a 16 gauge and 20 gauge Trojans were one of the two choices, twenty-eight inch barrels though, were certainly the more popular option.

According to "The Parker Story" (our bible) in sixteen gauge some 992 guns were made with 26" barrels while 5,577 were made with 28" barrels.

In earlier issues of Parker Pages in Josh Loewensteiner's column "Parkers Found" you will see an entry for No. 202066 listed with a few oddities.
It is a gun manufactured in 1922 or '23 as I recall but had the pre-1917 safety switch and it had a rib extension which had all but been discontinued about a year or two earlier.

This is all from memory and I stand subject to correction.

Incidentally Russell, I sold the gun to my brother-in-law about 5 years ago, after he saw how neatly it dispatched the errant grouse and woodcock, so barrel flats and water table pictures will have to wait a while 'til I can get over to his house which is in the next town about 12 miles away.





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26" is my favorite barrel length for quail and woodcock, although 28" is not bad either

We can really get our money’s worth out of those ungraded guns by reveling in their unusual features when they have them.

Some examples are referenced in the Trojan chapter in THE PARKER STORY and appear, as Dean points out, in its statistical table on page 246.

Exceptions include extra-long or short barrel lengths, twist steel, single triggers, and ejectors, and those distinctive anomalies possessed by Dean’s Home Page Trojan 16.