Trojan Problem

[Stepmac]

I'm a pawn shop hound. I've found all kinds of great guns in pawn shops over the years. A great Mannlicher Schoenaur 1952 carbine, a nifty Steyr Mannlicher .243. A very nice Lefever 12 and fantastic like new Ithaca M37 16, a bunch of Win M12's.

Now there's a Parker Trojan on the rack. Also a Elsie 00. The Trojan is priced, I think, about $300 high. It's covered with rust. Big blotches of BB sized rust spots. SS# in the 202xxx range. Can't recall all of it. It is a 12. Nice bore. Some kind of old rubber recoil pad that is crumbly. I'd say original. The rust obscures about 1/3 of the lettering on the rib. No cracks. Dings on the breech ends of the right barrel. Nice forearm. Maybe 60% blue with pretty deep rust spots. Maybe 40% case colors.

Is it time to snap up Trojans?

This one hefts and points about like my Fox Sterlingworth, which I love. That Fox is in much better shape than this Trojan, and cost, in fantactic condition, less that they want for this Parker, which is shabby. If the Trojan was mine I'd have to do a lot of work on it to make it presentable. However it feels and locks up like a nice shooter. It comes nicely to shoulder and my eye falls on the bead.

So what is a body to do? I can afford the this Trojan....just....maybe. Maybe not. Not sure. It'd be hard. Is a Trojan worth the effort?