My trapdoor

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I bought this rifle this week from a friend. I have shot the gun several times but always with black powder. Yesterday I shot it with smokeless, 25 grains of 4759 to be exact. While the gun is fun to shoot and does draw a crowd, that trigger takes some getting used to. That sucker is hard. All the metal is in beautiful condition and the bore is bright and shiny but the stock was Bubbarized years ago, probably when the guns sold for about ten bucks.

[Wayne Smith]

Buffington sight, too. Some people live on the good side of life!

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Wayne I also got the bayonet including the scabbard.

[Discus420]

did you look the serial number up in SRS? send it to me Ill look it up if you want and if it has one......

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I don't know what SRS is but the serial # is 3186xx.

[marlinman93]

That's a good looking Trapdoor! If you can find a decent donor stock, I've spliced them under the band and it will never show with the band in place.

[Drydock]

http://www.ssfirearms.com/proddetail.asp?prod=GS145&cat=94

[M-Tecs]

S&S is great to deal with.

[marlinman93]

S&S is great to deal withm

S&S is great! Amazing there's enough chopped forearms for them to offer these repair forearms! Pretty cool!

[Texas by God]

I'll give you about ten bucks (a week) for it since it's so wretchedly disfigured......!

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[thegatman]

Very nice

[sharps4590]

Man, that thing is slick!!! Shame about the stock but evidently that can be repaired to look correct.

[Chill Wills]

I bought this rifle this week from a friend. I have shot the gun several times but always with black powder. Yesterday I shot it with smokeless, 25 grains of 4759 to be exact. While the gun is fun to shoot and does draw a crowd, that trigger takes some getting used to. That sucker is hard. All the metal is in beautiful condition and the bore is bright and shiny but the stock was Bubbarized years ago, probably when the guns sold for about ten bucks.

I assume the barrel the rifle length still or did it get the carbine treatment with the stock? The picture does not show all the way to the muzzle.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

No, Bubba did not touch any of the metal on the gun, just the stock. Buckshot says I should cut the barrel off and make it a carbine.

[KCSO]

To adjust the trigger without changing anything you can soft solder a small brass shim into the sear notch and reduce the sear depth. Done right this will give you 4-5 pounds pull. DO NOT try and reduce it by filing or grinding the tumbler.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

KCSO, I have been cautioned about taking the gun apart if you have never owned one so I am afraid to take it about.

[M-Tecs]

KCSO, I have been cautioned about taking the gun apart if you have never owned one so I am afraid to take it about.

The TD is very simple and easy to disassemble.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzaMoZJFv8

[M-Tecs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j9HJBXZH5E

[M-Tecs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0Tb9_sqsA

[M-Tecs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkWy9d9RWw

[500Linebaughbuck]

nice rifle!!!

[Larry Gibson]

No, Bubba did not touch any of the metal on the gun, just the stock. Buckshot says I should cut the barrel off and make it a carbine.

I disagree, if you cut the barrel off the ranges on the Buffington rear sight will no longer be regulated should you desire to use M1882 service level loads. If anything you might go over to trapdoorcollector.com and see if you can get a rifle stock plus the other missing furniture. You might also ask about when it was made. If so give the complete serial # with no "X"s.

[Drydock]

You can find barrel bands and nose caps on Ebay. Use the S&S forearm and a dufflecut join for an easy repair to Milspec. Please don't cut it!

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Thank you Drydock, from a former Missourian, Sikeston to be specific. I will try taking it apart later today.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Well I was able to remove the lock with little difficulty and I was very impressed with the fit of wood to metal on this rifle. It looks like the tree grew up around the gun. It is also easy to see why the trigger pull is so heavy when you look at the main spring. They must have had really hard primers way back when. I tried to remove the barrel band but it was a no go, at least for me. I will have to get some help.

[DHDeal]

Nice rifle like others stated.

I suspect you were making a joke about cutting down the barrel. That's how I took it anyway as you know you got a nice one regardless of the fine woodwork of a previous afficianado.

I was guilty of a Bubba job years back on a Swedish Mauser.

[Drydock]

If you loosen up the tang screw first the barrel band comes off a lot easier.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Thanks Drydock, I will try that. DH, I am sure that many of us have turned into a Bubba sometime in our past, if we were honest. I know I have and it was one job I still regret.