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Offline DeepSouth

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Cartridge trap-Anybody ever install one
« on: February 24, 2009, 12:05:30 PM »
Has anyone ever installed one.I would like to install one on my 30-30.Looked at some in the Midway catalog.Kinda of looks like a steel frame with a cover.Is it spring loaded or does the shells just slide out?Is there more to it than what they're showing?Does a container go inthe stock?I've seen these on some custom lever guns made by Brockmans,but you can't really see anything.Thanks DeepSouth

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Re: Cartridge trap-Anybody ever install one
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2009, 08:41:54 AM »
New England Custom Gun has several different models, you might want to look at.



They have traps with flat or curved lids, and spring-loaed lids, or lids that must be pried open.

Butt-end cartridge traps are generally easiest to install, but not as nice-looking as a well-done trap added to a buttstock's bottom line.

All I've done were just hinged covers of one kind or another - underneath which a series of proper-sized holes were drilled to accept the length and diameter of the user's cartridge of choice.

Either style requires that the buttstock be inletted for the hinged lid, and (if a bottom-line type) the stock edge flattened in the area under the lid.

Another butt-style trap can be handmade via reworking a buttplate's wood-side face for a thin sliding door, that can be withdrawn to open an oval cut into the BP's center section.

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