The Parker

[Hixie]

Nice short story titled "The Parker" in Gray's Sporting Journal, The Bird Hunting Edition, volume forty-two, issue 4, August 2017. It's about a 12 ga Trojan that a guy inherited from his Grandfather and got him into grouse hunting.

It includes a photo where you can see some of one side of the original instruction and care tag that came with the gun. It must be a generic tag included with both hammerless and hammer guns as you can see in in big bold letters: "IT DOES NO HARM TO SNAP HAMMERS DOWN ON PARKER GUNS WHEN NOT LOADED. SNAP THEM ALL YOU PLEASE." Of course the subject Trojan is a hammerless gun.

It also describes that allowing the ejectors to snap open with no "exploded shells" in place can cause harm to the gun. I don't own a Parker with ejectors, but I will keep that in mind for when the time comes.