Here's the story of my Special Trap, the one pictured in Frank Conley's book. One of my shooting buddies had a gun store some years ago, in the basement of an office building in Bethesda, Maryland. He sold everything up to and including Class lll and wheeled cannons, as well as being our source of loading components for shotguns. I was in the store one day and he said that he had taken in three guns, coated in shallow red rust. One was a high condition EE Krupp barrel Lefever, cut off at 20". Another was a wonderful Damascus Neumann in good condition. The last one was an Iver Johnson Special Trap. I asked the price for all three. He said "What is thirty nine times three?" I paid him $117.00 for the three guns. I didn't mind losing the Iver Johnson, but I sure would like that Lefever back. I sold it to a friend for $300 and he immediately turned it around for twice that.
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