I am restoring an I. Johnson Special Trap that I came by several years ago. I am restocking it and having the metal done, too. I came across one in what I hoped to be original condition, primarily to use as a pattern. Didn't work out as hoped. I did get a tracing of the original checkering patterns though.

I would like to have a nice 32" Elsie SBT for the Fall Southern competition, but that was not the impetus for this buy gone bad. Lots of fish in the sea. I'll keep my eyes open. I did learn one thing from it, Bill. Special Traps were built with two completely different forend styles. The one like mine and the one you had ................. and then the style like billgrill has with the schnabel forend tip. For a long while I thought the schnabel style was a non-original replacement, but they did make them like that, too.

SRH

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