three digit gas trap on Julia Auction

[browningautorifle]

They were used but nice.

Makes sense for take offs. They'd be good rifles sent in for re-build I guess.

[RCS]

In 1987, I did install a like new gas trap barrel D-28286 B-1 in serial number 23025 (I keep a log of all barrel installations/removed) bet the owner thinks it is original now !

Last gas trap barrel that I traded for was in Carson City in 2002, traded some wood and cash, barrel had a T.E. of just over 3.0 nice bore too

[browningautorifle]

bet the owner thinks it is original now !

Like many of the things we've sorted out over the decades, with time they become original and a scarce variation...

[Bob Seijas]

Yeah, that's the standard drill... a guy makes something "just to have a representative piece" and eventually sells it with full disclosure. The new owner may or may not resell it as a reconstruction, but the next guy calls it original, and it is "original" from then on.

[RCS]

Also a check of the serial number 23025 will show the receiver was among a group imported in the early 1980's. Collectors should do all the homework possible before the
purchase of any complete gas trap

[can14&]

There were a few 4/5 digit numbered guns in the Danish lot Springfield in original finish is what I have

[browningautorifle]

I had the chance to purchase SA 153 and SA 154 several years back from widely separated vendors...but they wanted far too much.

[Calif-Steve]

They had a Gas Trap at Benicia Army Depot had hung in the Small Arms Branch. It was there for years. When they shut down the Depot it disappeared. I know a local Bay Area collector has/had it and it was a real, true Gas Trap. It has not been seen here in years. I wonder where it went.

[Bob Seijas]

I'm guessing that was the very late one that showed up with Bill Ziegler at San Francisco Gun Exchange. It solved the mystery of the late -1 gas trap cylinder. Before that we were all convinced that parts numbering was completely regular, with dashes first, then no dash and a space, then no space, then no number. The -1 cylinder was a puzzle because there didn't seem to be room for it between numbered cylinders in the low 20,000 range and no numbers in the 23,000 range unless only a very few were produced. Then this one turned up with a -1 cylinder and it hit me like a ton of bricks: the -1 was later and came after the others! I remember writing a breathless letter to the other collectors that the mystery was solved!

[browningautorifle]

When is this gun slated to sell? I'd love to find out the tail end of this...