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

[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.

[C.O.B.]

A grade 1 16ga hammergun, straight grip and 32 inch barrels. Next is an O grade 16ga lifter hammergun.