Need advise on 16ga Trojan with bad barrel

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Bibb Gault

So if it's not original, was it possibly done when sent back for repair, or with some sort of kit? Are there any marks on the receiver that would indicate when and if a modification took place? Do factory records get detailed enough to indicate it it came with 1 or 2 triggers? Sorry for all the questions guys, but I am very curious as it seems to function very very slick and does not appear to be a hatchet job.

Thanks,
Bibb

No it does not look to be a hatchet job, the reason I said it did not look like a Parker trigger was the selector switch to switch from the right barrel to the left barrels was located where the left trigger was which on yours looks to be covered over with a plug. If you request a letter there maybe more information on the trigger.

[charlie cleveland]

bibb i dont know what the barrel liner would cost give brilys a call...but the barrels can be fixed the way i said...you have to take around rod same size as the inside of the 16 ga barrels slolw heat the barrel metel that is blown... hammer and peen it down ...kinda like shaping a bent car fender...once you have worked barrels down then tig weld broken seams... you then will have some grinding and re welding...remove the iron rod in the barrels and put in liner.... not as easy as it sounds but most anymetal man could do this....and yes ive done this before..the cost was very little as i done them myself i didnot have to have a barrel liner my barrels were not hardly as bad as yours but close... charlie

[Dean Romig]

Whatever it is - it appears to be a non-selective trigger setup. I wasn't aware Parker ever made such an affair.

[Ruff Hunter]

...and yes ive done this before..the cost was very little as i done them myself i didnot have to have a barrel liner my barrels were not hardly as bad as yours but close... charlie

Charlie, am I correctly understanding that you have welded up split barrels and fired them, and you still have an intact left hand?? Can you post a pic of the results of your barrel welds? I did not think such a procedure was even possible, let alone advisable. You've got way more guts than I do....my heart still races every time I fire low pressure loads through good damascus barrels.

[J.B. Books]

Darn new fangled black barrels let go again. Supposed to be safer than Damascus?

If it was my fathers gun I would look for another 16ga Trojan, maybe one with a broke stock to keep the price down and have the barrels from the new one fitted to dad's gun. I good smith could number them to the gun too. A legacy Parker is worth saving IMO and worth more than it's monetary expense. You could recoup a little of the money spent on the 2nd gun by partiing out everything but the barrels.

[charlie cleveland]

ruff yes i have welded up split barrels a nd fired them with factory low brass....this old gun was a steel barreled hammer gun ...the barrels were split at about the fore arm and wthere was about a 10 inch sp;it....it was the right side barrel and yes i still have my left hand...ruff you saythat you cring shooting the damacus barrel guns...ive have safely fired up tp 3 ounces of shot several times thru a 8 ga fa lommis with fine damascus barrels....and the barrels are pitted from the chambers to the muzzles but not danderous pitts..i mean not really deep pitts...my dad and i have hunted witha lefever 10 ga over a lot of years actually since 1959...this thing has shot literally dozens of boxes of high brass loads at ducks and turkeys over the years...ive got several guns that are damascus and ive never had any problems with them...in fact a parker 10 ga that i hunt turkeys with has fired several 3 1/2 in magnum 12 ga in it using gauge mates.... and they are twist steel barrels....i guess what im trying to say is that damascus and other twist steel laminated and the other type steel barrels are a lot better than we give them credit..the barrels im talking about arethe better gun makers barrels...you have to also take into consideration to always inspect the barrels good if they pass i would never be afraid of a set of these barrels....all the barrels ive seen blowed up had had a some kinda obstruction in them...such as a dirt dauber nest a reload that did not make it out of the barrel and someone got to check... etc.... back to welding barrels..the last fellow i worked fors grandfathers old hammer gun was in a bad fire warped the barrels so badthey ltierly looked like you could shoot around the corner with them....they had sat untouched for about 20 years but he had wrapped them in a old sack and poured burnt oil on them...we took those barrels straighted them brazed them back together...put new springs in it....we then had a old gent make a stock forearm we then cold blued the old gun....we test fired the old gun with low brass shells by the old method of tying string on trigger and getting behind the shed...old gun held up and was shoulder fired after being test proved...we only got to test one of the barrels as one hammer was missing...bout 5years later he found a hammer that would work and it proved out ok too...bout all this old gun does is set in the gun cabinet but if someone else shoots it down thru the years it wikk be ok...wish i had some pictures to show you the work but we done this when no body thought about taking pictures.... charlie