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Unread 07-29-2011, 01:52 PM   #1
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Default 1926 Trapshooting Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRoRQHgmvc

This was posted on the Trapshooters forum. The original American Vintagers. Were those the days or what?
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Unread 07-29-2011, 02:23 PM   #2
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looks like they were having a fine old time...really liked the fur coat and that old car.... looks like they were shooting several differant type of shotguns..believe i seen autos over and under and aside by side....thanks ed.... charlie
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I wonder how the trap worked? I see the guy in the "hut" behind the shooters working a long lever which I assume runs the trap somehow.
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What year do you think this video was taken? Clues would be the cars and dress attire of the era.

What looks to me Charlie talks about an over/under is at 5:53 of the video. If it is, who made it?

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gawd... if I just read the title, there is the answer. 1926!

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I wonder how the trap worked? I see the guy in the "hut" behind the shooters working a long lever which I assume runs the trap somehow.
that reset the trap for the next bird to be put on by the "trap boy" when i was a kid my father would shoot at trap feilds that had that for a set up. a MWSA in barrington you can still see the pipe just sticking out of the ground that ran the trap cocking lever. scott
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Unread 07-29-2011, 09:43 PM   #6
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what kind of powder do you reckon them fellas was burning....lot of smoke for smokeless powder...could be semi smokeless or is itblack powder there using....i woulda figured that trap shooter by 1926 used only smokles but who knows for sure... i think im gonna go back and re watch it again.... charlie
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that camerman must have been given a hatfull of that brew he was purty shaky at the end... this time i seen single barrels doubles and auto s and definately a oved and under at the last of the film... i could not make out the old car i wanted to call it a pontiac but im not sure... them boys definatly had a good time.... charlie
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As Scott said, the lever cocked the trap, it also released it by pushing it forward. A club I shot at was still using them in the late 1960s on some fields. We modified them to work with a button switch and a motor driven contraption that mounted behind the trap. Still required a trap boy to set the target on the machine. OSHA would scream if they saw one today.
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There was a man in Hockessin Delaware that had one of those traps set up behind his house. In the 1970's he would let me and a few friends use it on occasion. It was a far cry from the push button jobs!
Did you notice toward the end of the trapshooting segment that there was a SXS with a cross over stock leaning against the clubhouse to the left of the doorway?

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i could not make out the old car i wanted to call it a pontiac but im not sure... charlie
Took some sleuthing. One fairly unique feature is that "both" the front and rear have "suicide doors". Most you see of that era it is only the rear doors that open like that. So with that and the very round barrel like engine cover, Google images was searched and searched, to no avail. A check with Canadian Hot Rodders got a few intrigued. Some suggestions but then pay dirt, I think. Franklin was suggested as a possibility. The 1925 model sure looks close. The bottom two images are taken from the video.
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