Gas trap book

[jarrodeu]

Bodyman is right, this is wayyyy... addictive.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...SAM_1716-1.jpg

Wow! Are those original or restored? Very impressive either way!

Jarrod

[cgroc09]

restorations or at least as close as I can get.



future projects

[Bill Hollinger]

AMAZON!!

Dude - seriously!!!

Try ABEBOOKS - 6 copies of the Pyle book on there.
1 here in the UK, 1 in Canada, 4 in the USA.
Prices range from $45US to $67US - though if ya feeling generous - take whatever you pay for your copy from ABE off the $275 on Amazon - divide by 50% & send me that value in 6.8 brass

Yeah I know. I went back and looked some more and found a number of the hard back collector grade books for less than $60.00. So, I'm buying a book!

[Bodyman]

Bodyman is right, this is wayyyy... addictive.

Very nice little selection there - and THAT must be where all the early parts have been going! (grin)

Pyle is dangerous because he will tell you what you need - darned near pry the money out of your wallet ... The cool part is that you can start with just one part - heck, you may already have one on a rifle that you own - flat sight cover with numbers on it, or an early trigger housing, they were all good parts for rebuilds so they ended up everywhere (I got a very nice no pad trigger housing from a beat up Dane return! (pictured below)). Then you can start watching for deals here and there and with a little luck, over time you will all of a sudden have most of the smaller easy parts in one little pile. Here is my gastrap 'kit', and I do lay the blame squarely at Billy Pyle's feet - without his book, I wouldn't have known I needed ANY of this (grin).



Hey, one of yours is 1584 - I have receiver 1591! I was thinking about one of those new gastrap kits - they look really nice and maybe I could actually shoot it! Nowadays, there just always seems to be a different need for the money, ya know ...

Anyway, here is another old favorite early pic back at ya - boy, there is just something about them early numbered ones;

[cgroc09]

VERY NICE....... I need that op rod for this one.







Hey Bodyman, pm sent

[Bodyman]

In case any of you were seriously considering that -2 trigger, you might want to look very closely before you buy. I just noticed on the flip side of that part - if you look closely it is broken where the trigger pin fits thru (usually from some ham-handed assembler somewhere in the past).

Scroll between the two sides and you can see it.



This is not uncommon and it will still function, but it does affect value - I just felt a little responsible after posting it yesterday.

That being said, it is a gorgeous finish, or lack of finish, that is very hard purist restorers to find nowadays ...

[RCS]

There are more variations to the top marked revision 0 op rod, note the ledge or step under the drawing number.Attachment 21280Attachment 21281

[Bob Seijas]

Great selection of receivers! Please tell me about the guide rib -- where do you see
1. sheared rib
2. welded rib
3. intact rib

I'm collecting data for a book. Thanks.

[cgroc09]

Bob, pm sent

[RCS]

Also look for any "extra wide" rib receivers too, there is a small group that is recording all the data on the extra wide rib receivers - either with the correction or withoutAttachment 21299

Photo of receiver with the extra wide rib and chamber flag