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Unread 02-06-2010, 11:58 PM   #1
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Now that's a full plate James. Healing after the knife is never a good time. Wish you well. Hopefully all is ready for your wife's return just a few days ahead of Valentine's Day. I've been dealing with dog kennel modification in order to have a permanent cozy set up inside my little hunting buggy. Doing dog hikes, taking pictures and reading the forums. Starting to feel a bit like those four you hooked. Here's a few pics from today of my Trojan. Prior to being "educated" here, I would have been pleased to have this gun - and I still am but now I know all its warts but hey, it's one of them great Parker guns that nobody's making anymore. (Somebody did try to make this one from a variety of sources it appears but the metal numbers match). Cheers,
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James,Wishing you well in your recovery. 16 gauge hammergun? Is this the gun from Gunbroker? Pictures please!

Jack,Looks like you managed to get that Parker wet already.Good Boy! Thanks for the photo's. Nice gun....
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Hard to beat a Parker Trojan for a great field gun- inspite of the few flaws you noted, there is always one basic truism in owning/shooting a Parker Trojan- Can't be "upgraded" and passed off as a higher grade Parker, as I have seen done with some Vulcan grades- What gauge, chokes and barrel specs??

A new scope for a M70 pre-64 in .220 Swift? Delivered by the "Little Brown Santa Claus"- aka- UPS driver perhaps?? Sounds good. What make and series scope and mounts are you using on this 500 yard range "Gopher grinder"?
I love to snipe prairie doggies and woodchucks- I have a "hybrid" Winnie .220 Swift-my late father also loved that type of rifle shooting, and in 1935 he bought a M54 SuperGrade in that great 4000 fps. Mach whatever caliber- After it came to me I rebuilt it to a 1940 style bolt, release and safety- Thanks to Maynard Buehler, installed a Timney trigger and replace the sheet metal trigger guard and floor plate with a Blackburn forged series- No drop down floor plate of course, but this M54-70 "dinger" is basically a single shot bolt action, of course I can eject unfired rounds by cycling the bolt too- I have a 4x14x44 Vari-X 111 leupold on it now, Dad had an older Stith 12x with the spring adjustment bases- barrel and throat are as new, 26" stainless barrel- if I had a $1 for every round through that old Winnie since Dad bought it, I would have Warren Buffett listening to me on occasion.

Sorry about the bladder and knee business- one of my good friends from our Hunt Club is a spry 81- shoots either Over-under or M21, and has had a reoccurance of prostate cancer- treatable, but that radiation process is no picnic- can't put a price tag on good health and good vision, even if you aren't an avid shotgunner as I am-- priceless

I'll pass on the Famous grouse (or infamous when you miss one in the thick stuff and he roars away like a F-16 with Chuck Yeager as the pilot)-- but Yukon Jack and Tullamore Dew are the winter's fireside sippin' choices- always think about Yukon poet Robert W. Service and writer Jack london when I look over the bottle's label-- "Oh I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I've learned to defy and defend-- Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out, but the North must win in the end"--
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