7-29-18 Garand Picture of the Day - Gas trap

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Date taken: November 1938

Photographer: William Vandivert

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Pic #2 his eyes are closed.

That is probably a 4-digit rifle no higher than about 6000

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Originally Posted by Sarge1998

Pic #2 his eyes are closed.

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Quite the flinch...

surprising amount of gas blowing back. Bolt is fully back I battery and the brass is only about 8" away from the chamber in mid air.

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Originally Posted by Allen Humphrey

surprising amount of gas blowing back.

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I saw that too and wondered if that's characteristic of a gastrap...not having seen one firing... There's one at 2:43 firing and no signature like that. Again at 4:06.

I Have This Old Gun: Gas Trap Garand - YouTube

Not sure I would like to fire the weapon like that in #1 either way its gunna hit your collar bone, probably get a good smack in the nose by the thumb as well.

Serial number 2126 was Canfield's gas trap, I believe the gas trap that was shooting is one of the new manufactured front end kits, which are made identical to the original

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

Not sure I would like to fire the weapon like that in #1 either way its gunna hit your collar bone, probably get a good smack in the nose by the thumb as well.

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I think that having a gas plume like the one in the second picture after firing each shot would be distracting at the least and flinch-inducing if it blew back towards the shooter as I appears to do.

I see the cheekbone resting on the thumb in the third photo. That would give the shooter a good 'weld' and a contact index to ensure the same position every shot. Looking closely at the first and second photos, neither shooter has that cheek to thumb weld. Cinders is right. A shooter could end up with a bloody nose from not being in just the right position.

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Originally Posted by RCS

I believe the gas trap that was shooting is one of the new manufactured front end kits

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Yes, I'll bet. Can't see anyone shooting his original. Not when you see the one in the book by Pyle...destroyed because of a round firing pin I think it was.