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HISTORIC ORIGINAL GAS TRAP M1 GARAND RIFLE : Curios and Relics at GunBroker.com


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[Mark in Rochester]

it sure will be an interesting auction - not sure it will meet reserve

[Kirk]

How did a gas trap make it through WWII from Panama to Europe, unaltered, and with the GI to whom it was issued? Small odds of that happening! Good job documenting it.

[Bill Hollinger]

Heard tell the experts all agree that this is the real deal. Fine looking gas trap!

[RCS]

a person on Jouster stated this gas trap was missing the lock bar rear sight, another on the CMP forum stated that the follower was wrong and also the lock bar rear sight was missing too !

[Joe W]

a person on Jouster stated this gas trap was missing the lock bar rear sight, another on the CMP forum stated that the follower was wrong and also the lock bar rear sight was missing too !

At least the guy that thought it should have a lock bar admitted he didn't know and was trying to learn. The other guy is still carrying on. Makes one want to give up on the CMP forum.

[Johnny Peppers]

a person on Jouster stated this gas trap was missing the lock bar rear sight, another on the CMP forum stated that the follower was wrong and also the lock bar rear sight was missing too !

The locking bar rear sight wasn't used until somewhere near the 500,000 serial number range. Up until that time the flush nut rear sight was used as is pictured on the rifle. The follower was changed from the early type to the later type around serial number 44,000 serial number range. Those two items are correct as shown.

[RCS]

gas trap serial number 46195 was sold in 2000, then resold two more times, the data sheet was just about the same as s/n 46097 except the revision 2 bolt had a C11 heat lot

[Bill Hollinger]

It is crazy what is out there and what people think.

[browningautorifle]

I AM curious how that rifle would make it from pre war through training in England to D-Day to Market Garden to the Bulge to V-E Day without a broken part or armourer rebuild happening. Unless it wasn't shot and what's the odds of that. Some of you have done that and know how many rounds it's possible to go though in a short time. And documented. I read the ad and don't recall it exactly saying he jumped into France with it and carried it from beginning to end. I believe he was issued it. I believe he managed to get it home before the war so it didn't get lost in battle or destroyed. But I'm sorry, I just don't think he carried it from the beginning to the end. I know a Canadian and an American who were issued Thompsons (I know they aren't M1s) and they each told me they went through four guns during the three years and two years respectively that they fought. I just wouldn't pay for the story. I would LOVE the gun however!