My first Parker was a 1913 12ga 28" Trojan I purchased from my local gunsmith in 1984. I really did not know very much about Parker's and I had not read Johnson's or Baer's books. An older friend who did a lot of upland hunting at the time had a 26" barrel 12ga Trojan and I admired it and wanted one of my own. In Dec '84 I was getting ready to leave for a remote assignment to Iceland and I had sold my Jeep as I would not need a vehicle. I used some of the proceeds to buy this gun. On the morning I left for Iceland I woke up early, went to a favorite spot on a brackish river feeding into Great Bay. It was low tide and I managed to make sneak on a raft of ducks. When they flushed I dropped a black duck but couldn't figure out the double trigger in time to get a second shot. I went over and picked the big red leg and while I was holding the duck I saw a small flock of mallards dropping in about 50 yards away. I rested the forend on the top of my left forearm still holding the black duck and folded a greenhead with my second barrel. First two shots, two ducks, who says Parker's aren't special?
I still have the gun which was in great condition when I got it, 65 to 70% cc. Near twenty five seasons of salt water gunning and laying in muddy cornfields took it's toll. In 2007 I had DelGrego & Son restore everything but the cc.
