What's your favorite Trojan, 0 grade or 1 grade?

[Craig Larter]

In the realm of common Parkers what is most appealing to you? I like the hammerless PH with twist barrels. I love the pattern in twist barrels and engraving just enough to decorate the action. How about you? I have friends that like the Trojan action shape and others that like the VH for it's simple classic Parker lines.

[B. Dudley]

I can agree with that.

I see good things about each. I think the Trojan lines are tastefully simple and attractive in their own right.

[Double Lab]

That's a tough one Craig, I like them all. I've grown to really appreciate the D grades. Just enough engraving to give them some class but still affordable. I've got a DH 1892 with 32" tubes with knockout wood and ordered with 2 3/4" chambers. The damascus pattern is stunning. Next would be the G grades and of course any hammer gun, especially grade 2's.

[Bill Murphy]

I have a couple of high condition Trojans and a couple of high condition PH Twist guns, one with straight stock. I displayed the PH guns with letters at a PGCA event and they drew a bit of comment. The Trojans haven't been out yet. I have no feeling for these high condition guns beyond the fact that I could shoot them. I would rather shoot my beaters.

[Researcher]

My Grandfather had a PH-Grade and my Father had a VH-Grade does that mean that I should have a Trojan? At any rate, I bought this NH-Grade just because it has some condition --











and to me it is the quintessential Parker Bros. double.

[Tom]

I really like the D model, but must admitt I have been looking at a few G's and they are growing on me.
At the end of the day they are all real cool.

Tom

[10 bore]

PH; with a black and white twist

[Fishtail]

I just have a run of the mill Trojan 12ga but I will admit I don't have any other Parker that fits me as well or shoots as well.

[Craig Larter]

Dave that is a stunning grade1 example!!! Gotta love the pattern in the barrels, great wood and engraving. A straight grip long barreled PH with twist would be a very handsome gun in my opinion.

[Kevin McCormack]

My favorite Trojan was the 16 ga. that had to have been in 95-98% condition overall that some moron (you know who they are!) had made into a stand-up (vertical) floor lamp. It surfaced in an obscure auction house outside of Timonium MD in a "sporting collectibles" auction about 9 years ago. Whoever did the work really wanted a floor lamp bad - the stock was drilled as if it had a drawbolt channel; the wiring was fed up through the action cut in the watertable and a hole had been drilled into the chamber face of one of the barrels so the cord could be fed up one tube to the lamp fixture at the muzzle which was secured by a wooden dowel driven into the tube opposite the wired barrel, complete with a lampshade in the "outdoor motif." I never saw a higher condition Trojan until Ed Muderlak bought Ed Ulrich's NIB 12 ga. at the next-to-the last Vintagers in Millbrook NY.

My favorite PH(E) was the very late 1 1/2 frame 1928 steel barreled 12 ga. that I traded Herschel Chadick for against a 16 ga. EE Lefever with cut barrels (Herschel said his Texas quail hunters just didn't give a damn about cut barrels on a 16 ga.!). Bad internet photos and too long in inventory sent the PHE my way - when I unwrapped it at the FFL holder's house, it proved to be a bona fide 85% overall condition gun.

My favorite VH(E) has to be the Sunderland gun, a simple but elegant rib-inscribed graduation gift from a father in the Heartland to his son who served faithfully and well in defense of his homeland.