Never saw one of these before

[browningautorifle]

It was SOP to just toss obsolete parts

It was and still is. We had a local scrap dealer bid on the scrap from Camp Gagetown, called me at home one night to come identify some odds and ends. He took me into a sprung shelter and it was a tour like the last scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where there were boxes stacked on each other. He had parts from all out weapons and broken bayonets and such. I expect all the gas trap parts taken off during rebuilds went this way, except then they probably went right to the dump not through a system of channels. I think we're lucky any survived through some foresight of others.