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Thanks Daryl, I will have to double-check it when I return home. I wouldn't be surprised if I wrote it down with the barrels off the gun, upside down, and flipped R and L with the choke diameter. Is there a simple tool for measuring bore diameter in the Trojan steel 12g barrel? Or is it a known measurement? I prefer not to spend a bunch of money on a tool I'll use 4 times in my life. Thanks again. |
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03-06-2019, 05:15 PM | #4 | ||||||
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What you will need is called a bore micrometer Jason and if you search this forum or the net you might find one for a reasonable price. If not find a local gunshop or gunsmith who might have one that could measure it for you. If you post where you live maybe one of our members could help you out.
If you get into these old doubles you will find a use for one.
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03-06-2019, 08:59 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I've owned two Parker's that I call left barrel first guns.(Left barrel more open) Still have one. That said, I believe all Trojans would be right barrel first guns.
My theory is that some shooters, back in the day, thought that going left first on a SxS leaves the gun positioned better for a faster second barrel. Think pigeon shooting, not field shooting. My theory, of course. I could be wrong. |
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I was under the impression left barrel guns were for left handed/left eyed shooters.
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I would expect the "left handed/ left eyed" shooter's gun to have the triggers switched as well, no?
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03-07-2019, 08:22 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Not to hijack your thread Jason but I'm a left handed/left eyed shooter and I've never had a problem with the standard trigger setup or firing the right barrel first. In fact, I've long thought that a lefty, firing the right barrel first, has an advantage in that the recoil is closer to the center of the body. The truth is I don't think nor do I care about chokes. If the gun fits reasonably well you can kill/break things a long way off with open chokes.
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03-07-2019, 09:21 AM | #9 | ||||||
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I believe that any Parker gun made with what we refer to as “reverse chokes” was made that way because it was ordered that way for the type of shooting the buyer planned to do with that gun. I can easily understand a gun being reverse choked for incoming targets such as pass shooting either waterfowl or doves to a watering hole or food source. Also for such shooting as European driven grouse... any shooting at game or inanimate targets that are incoming.
As for me, I simply select the choke I want to shoot first by using the trigger for that barrel... .
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03-07-2019, 10:10 AM | #10 | |||||||
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My buddy had a double trigger, reverse choke gun, which had the front trigger fire the right barrel, so who knows. |
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