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Trapdoor Springfield rebirth
Mar 31st, 2016 at 7:43am
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I usually just lurk here, absorbing information. I thought some of you may like to see a Trapdoor I finished building this week. Before and after pictures, this gun had been used as a movie prop in "Gunga Din".

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Reply #1 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 8:44am
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Nice work, very balanced look.
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 9:28am
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Good looking rifle, nice job.
Certainly a case where one did not have to worry about modifying an original.
Nice save.
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Reply #3 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 2:56pm
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I like it. 

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Reply #4 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 3:56pm
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A really classic looking Trapdoor sporting rifle. You did a great job.

How long is the barrel, and what did you use for a buttplate?

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Reply #5 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 5:48pm
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You get two thumbs up from me too.  Nice job restoring that old classic.  She's a beaut.
  
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Reply #6 - Mar 31st, 2016 at 8:45pm
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Nice job waksupi. Where did the stock come from?
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 1st, 2016 at 7:36pm
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That is a handsome rifle, waksupi!

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Reply #8 - Apr 1st, 2016 at 8:21pm
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Yes, it's gorgeous. I'm trying hard to remember back 50 years but didn't the old Williams Converting Military Rifles have a chapter on the trapdoor?
  
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Reply #9 - Apr 1st, 2016 at 10:35pm
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marlinguy wrote on Apr 1st, 2016 at 12:42pm:
If I owned a Trapdoor, I'd want it to look exactly like your reincarnation! Great job!

If you want to do one, I have parts, but the barrels are shot. Would have to get a good barrel fitted.
  
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Reply #10 - Apr 1st, 2016 at 10:48pm
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I always wanted one of those movie prop 45-70s that were made up to look like flintlocks, but every thing I have heard about them, they are pretty rough by the time the studio's turn loose of them. I have seen any number of them in vintage movies.
  
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Reply #11 - Apr 2nd, 2016 at 12:48pm
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Nice looking rifle!
  
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Reply #12 - Apr 2nd, 2016 at 1:11pm
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Nice work!
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Reply #13 - Apr 2nd, 2016 at 4:13pm
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Mike Gish wrote on Apr 1st, 2016 at 10:48pm:
I always wanted one of those movie prop 45-70s that were made up to look like flintlocks, but every thing I have heard about them, they are pretty rough by the time the studio's turn loose of them. I have seen any number of them in vintage movies.

All you need is a flintlock lock and you could swap them ack and forht form shooter to looker  Cheesy
  
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