Re: Trap Grade SXS with Trap Gun Option Archived Message
Posted by Jason G. Harrison on May 31, 2008, 8:55 am, in reply to "Trap Grade SXS with Trap Gun Option"
Tabs,
First off, congrats on your new gun. To clear a few things up...the "T" stamped on the water table denotes the grade of the gun, which is TRAP, it does not denote Trap Gun Option.
The Double barrel Trap option or package is a theory of sorts and at the present time, research is on going to prove or disprove some theories about the use of the "T" symbol. I am speaking about the use of the "T" as it is recorded in the surviving ledgers at Cody, NOT the stamp on the water table.
The configuration your gun has, to me at least (not an expert) would not be a Trap gun. Anything could be special ordered, but standard equipment on a Trap gun of that era would be a Special long Beavertail forend, Hunter One Trigger, Ejectors, pending the date of the gun, i.e. post 1926...vent rib, etc...
Prior to the advent of the Vent rib guns could be ordered with the option of the Double Barrel Trap package. Basically the same configuration as listed above but with out the vent rib.
Stocks were also much straighter when set up for trap, with not much drop at the heel...as I am told it created a more consistent mount with head placement. I am not an expert. There are those here who are and I am sure they will reply when they find this thread.
A Cody letter is the only way to know exactly what barrel length your gun left the factory with.
The research I mentioned about the use of the "T" is just about done at Cody. I will have the results and then I will compile all that data with the other data I have collected and begin a comparative analysis and see if something factual can be derived from the data uncovered in this project. Long and slow...but I hope in the end, it will be helpful to those who like this type of side bar research about our beloved "Elsie's".
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