One of the Trojan Skeet guns, quite possibly the only known example, is in the custody of the Remington Arms museum. Brian Dudley wrote a Parker Pages article about it and I think it was also in DGJ.
The original Skeet field was on Davies' Glen Rock Kennels property at 73 Dascomb Road in Andover, MA about a mile from my house. To the best of my knowledge, the chicken yard and chicken coops were on the property of Davies' next-door neighbor and the buildings can be seen dimly in the background of Drew's first picture. Reportedly, the shot pellets raining down on the neighbor's chicken yard at 53 Dascomb Rd. at the corner of Durham is what prompted the change from a clock-face layout to the semi-circle currently in use.
The club in Wilmington, next town to the west of Andover, like so many other old shooting clubs in Massachusetts, is no longer in existence.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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