Trap guns were made during a period with how many missing stock books? The answer seems to be four, if you consider that traps guns go back to around 1923. This is 12,000 missing guns out of about 36,000 or 37,000 guns. Does that explain why TPS says there are four P Grade trap gun in total when I have owned or seen at least a half dozen, and I don't get out much. I thought the authors were supposed to have "extrapolated" the production numbers based on present and missing stock books. If that is the case, I now own half of the P Grade trap guns produced, according to TPS yet my experience tells me that there are many more. Since vent rib guns were in their heyday during the years that a third of stock books were unavailable for research, I think that we will never know much about vent rib and trap gun production. Your guess is as good as mine. The "Trap Gun" subchapter in TPS made a valiant attempt to explain the difficulty of determining total production of trap guns and vent ribs. Pages 401-2 and some previous pages in TPS.
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