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The Fabarm Elos N2 RS Trap — The Best-Value Adjustable High Rib In Australia

Trap is a game of sameness. Step to the line, mount the gun the same way, see the same picture, break the target — then do it again. Twenty-five times a round, hundreds of times a day. The shooter who wins is the one whose hundredth target looks exactly like their first, and every honest thing about a trap gun should serve that one relentless idea: repeatability.

For a great many trap shooters, that pursuit leads to a high rib. A raised rib lifts the sighting plane clear of the barrels, lets you shoot with your head up in a natural, comfortable, repeatable position, and sets the target where you want to see it — sitting up above the barrels, rising into your pattern. And the best high ribs are adjustable: change the rib, change where the gun shoots, and tune the point of impact to exactly your technique.

Here is the catch the market has lived with for years: an adjustable high rib has been a feature of guns wearing serious price tags. The Fabarm Elos N2 RS Trap ends that. It is a forged-steel, Tribore-HP-barrelled, Italian-made trap gun with a genuine adjustable 13–11mm Ergal high rib — from $4,199.

Australia’s best-value adjustable high rib shotgun? In the mainstream market — real brand, real distributor, real warranty — we will happily say it: you bet. In 30″ or 32″, right or left hand, in stock now. This page is the case for why.

A High Rib Is A Choice — And A Good One, For The Shooter It Suits

Honest first: not every trap shooter wants a high rib. If you do, read on.

Let us be straight with you before we sell you anything. A high rib is not for everyone. It changes the sight picture, and it changes how your head sits on the gun — and there are very good trap shooters who try one, decide it is not for them, and go back to a flat-ribbed gun perfectly happy. If you have never shot a high rib, the smart move is to try one before you commit. The Gun Bar team can point you toward a club or a chance to shoulder one.

But for the shooter a high rib does suit — and that is a great many trap shooters — it is a genuine advantage, not a fashion. A raised rib lets you shoot with your head up, in a natural, upright posture, rather than craned and buried down on the comb. Over a long squad, a long day, a long competition, that upright position is more comfortable, easier on the neck, and — the part that wins trap — far easier to repeat exactly.

It changes what you see, too. With the sighting plane lifted clear of the barrels, the rising trap target sits up above the rib, in clean air, instead of being chased up from behind a barrel. You see it sooner, you see it better, and the gun’s point of impact is raised to meet it. For a target that is always going away and always climbing, that is a real, repeatable edge.

So this is a page for the shooter who knows — or strongly suspects — that a high rib is for them. If that is you, the only real question left is which high-rib trap gun. And that question has a clear answer.

An Adjustable 13–11mm Ergal Rib — Dial In Where The Gun Shoots

A fixed rib gives you one sight picture for the life of the gun. This one, you tune.

The RS Trap is topped with a tapered rib — 13mm at the breech, 11mm at the muzzle — a wide, confident sighting plane, raised high and clear of the barrels. It is made from Ergal, a high-strength aluminium alloy, which keeps weight off the top of the barrels where you least want it and least want it moving. But the rib’s defining feature is the single word on the spec sheet that matters most: adjustable.

Here is what that word buys you. What a rib really governs is point of impact — POI — where the pattern prints relative to the bead and your hold. On almost every trap gun, that relationship is welded on at the factory: you get the sight picture the maker chose, for the life of the gun. On the RS Trap, the rib adjusts — and adjusting the rib adjusts the point of impact.

In trap, that is not a gimmick — it is the heart of the thing. Trap targets rise, and how high the gun shoots is the single biggest decision behind the gun. Some shooters want a flatter-shooting setup; many want the gun to shoot high — the 70/30, 80/20, even 90/10 point of impact that lets you hold under a rising target, keep it in clean sight, and still centre the pattern on it. The RS Trap lets you set exactly that, to your eye and your technique — not to a factory’s best guess.

And it keeps paying off. As your style matures, as a coach tweaks your form, as you move between disciplines, you re-tune the rib — you do not re-buy the gun. A fixed-rib trap gun asks you to adapt to it. The RS Trap adapts to you, and then delivers the same picture and the same POI on every target, every round, all season.

Australia’s Best-Value Adjustable High Rib — And We’ll Stand By That

Among mainstream guns, in the sub-$8,000 bracket, the RS Trap simply stands alone.

Here is the claim, stated plainly. In the Australian market, among mainstream brands — the ones with a real distributor, a real warranty and parts you can actually get — there is no adjustable-high-rib trap gun that offers what the RS Trap offers for the money. At $4,199 it sits in the lower half of the sub-$8,000 bracket, while a great many of the adjustable-rib guns it shares a category with are up near, or past, that $8,000 mark.

Take the obvious comparison: the Miroku MK10 HRT. It is an excellent, proven, Japanese-made high-rib trap gun, and a perfectly fair benchmark — nobody at Gun Bar will tell you otherwise. It does the high-rib job, and does it well. But its raised rib is fixed at a set height: a good sight picture, yes — but the one the factory chose, locked in for the life of the gun. The RS Trap’s rib adjusts. You set the point of impact; Fabarm doesn’t set it for you. For the shooter who wants the gun tuned to themselves, that is the difference that matters.

It is worth knowing, too, that “high rib” is one of the loosest words in the trade. The label gets stamped on everything from a genuinely tall competition rib down to one that is, frankly, only “high” if you are feeling generous — and no two makers measure it the same way. Buy a fixed “high rib” and you are taking a marketing department’s word for what “high” means. The RS Trap does not ask you to: its rib is adjustable, so “how high” is a number you set — not one you hope for.

Is there, somewhere, a cheaper adjustable-rib gun? Possibly — if you count whatever is quietly changing hands out the back of a ute in a club carpark. But among real, mainstream products, sold by real distributors, with a warranty that means something and spare parts you can actually source, the RS Trap stands without equal at its price. That is not marketing bravado. It is simply where the market sits.

And the value runs into the details. The RS Trap’s adjustable comb is standard — fitted, included, part of the gun. With some makers, an adjustable comb is a costly option: $600 or more added on top of the sticker price before you can set the gun to your face. Fabarm does not play that game. The price you see is the gun you get — and the gun you get is already set up to be fitted to you.

Tribore HP — Italian Barrels With A Caesar Guerini Bloodline

The rib gets the attention. The barrel is where a trap gun is really won or lost.

Fabarm is, before it is anything else, a barrel-maker — and it has been one in Brescia, the historic heart of Italian gunmaking, since 1900. How good? The proof is a fact from inside the trade. Caesar Guerini, the prestige marque Fabarm shares ownership with, builds guns that sell for many times the price of an RS Trap — and when Caesar Guerini needs barrels, it does not make its own. It has Fabarm make them. The barrels on this gun share their bloodline with barrels fitted to guns costing five figures.

It begins with how the tubes are made. Fabarm deep-drills every barrel from a solid bar of chrome-molybdenum steel — the most demanding and most expensive way to make a gun tube, and the best. Fabarm’s two largest competitors reserve deep drilling for their custom-shop flagships only. Fabarm uses it on every gun it builds — this RS Trap included.

Then there is the bore: Tribore HP. A trap shooter lives and dies on a dense, even pattern delivered exactly where the gun is pointed. The RS Trap’s barrel runs an over-bored section at 18.70mm for low friction and a clean pattern — then, ahead of it, a long 205mm conical section that narrows the bore back to 18.40mm. Squeeze a moving column of gas into a narrowing space and, by the Venturi principle, it accelerates — handing the shot its speed and its penetration straight back. You get the even pattern of an over-bored barrel with nothing given away on the hit.

An extra-long forcing cone eases the shot column on its way and softens the recoil into your shoulder — and for a trap shooter, who may put tens of thousands of rounds through a gun, that softer recoil is not a luxury. It is what keeps your form together on the last target of the last round. Beretta reserves its long-forcing-cone Steelium Pro barrels for the flagship DT11; Fabarm builds the same principle into every Tribore HP barrel as standard.

Tested To 1630 Bar — Built For The Round Counts Trap Demands

No shooter puts more rounds through a gun than a trap shooter. This one is built for it.

Every Italian shotgun is proof-tested by law — pressure-tested for safety — at the C.I.P. proof house in Gardone Val Trompia, to 1320 bar. Fabarm volunteers for far more. It is the only maker to have agreed an exclusive additional protocol with that proof house: every Fabarm barrel is also tested to 1630 bar, a deliberate overpressure well beyond the legal requirement — and every gun, your RS Trap included, leaves the factory with its own 1630 bar certificate.

For a trap shooter, that overbuilt strength is the point. Nobody on a clay ground burns through ammunition like a serious trap competitor — practice rounds, club shoots, championships, season after season, the round count climbing into tens of thousands. A gun proofed well beyond the legal standard is a gun built to absorb that and stay tight. The RS Trap’s barrels are also cleared for high-performance steel shot, a useful piece of future-proofing should non-toxic loads ever be required where you shoot.

The RS Trap is supplied with five Exis HP extended competition chokes, a set that runs to the tighter constrictions trap rewards — the dense, hard-hitting patterns a going-away target asks for, and the still-tighter choke for the long second barrel of a DTL pair. Each is built longer, with a hyperbolic curved profile, so the shot column is squeezed gently and progressively. Always use each choke as Fabarm marks it; the Gun Bar team can help you set up.

A Hand-Oiled Walnut Monte Carlo Stock, Adjustable To You

An adjustable rib sets where the gun shoots. The stock sets how you meet it.

A high rib and an adjustable comb are two halves of one idea: a sight picture set precisely to you, and held there. The RS Trap is built on a Monte Carlo stock — the raised, level comb of a purpose-built trap gun, which keeps your eye at a constant height above the rib through the mount — and that comb is adjustable. Set it for height and cast, lock it, and the gun comes to your face the same way every time. Pair it with the adjustable rib and you can tune the whole eye-to-rib relationship until the picture is exactly, repeatably yours.

The fore-end is a semi-beavertail — a fuller, hand-filling shape that gives the leading hand a firm, confident, repeatable hold, so you guide the gun rather than wrestle it through a long, deliberate trap swing. With a 377mm length of pull and measured drop at comb and heel, the RS Trap mounts the same way, target after target.

The Racing trigger is adjustable and selective — choose your barrel, and enjoy a crisp, clean break with no creep and no surprise. In a discipline decided by hundredths of consistency, a trigger you can trust and then forget is worth more than it sounds.

And the wood is honest walnut, hand-oiled — finished by hand, the oil worked into the grain until the figure of the timber glows up through it. It is warm under the hand, it wears its years gracefully, and it is the part of the gun your eye keeps returning to in the cabinet. A serious tool, dressed as a gun you are proud to own.

The Chokes Question — Factory Exis HP, Or Teague Precision?

Your RS Trap arrives with five good chokes. There is still a smart upgrade to know about.

Every RS Trap comes with five Exis HP extended competition chokes — genuinely good chokes, and enough to shoot the gun well across DTL and trench straight from the case.

But here is a truth worth knowing before you buy. A gun maker’s real craft is the action and the barrels — the lock-up, the bore, the balance — and at that, Fabarm is exceptional. Choke-making is a different specialism entirely. For Teague Precision Chokes, choke-making is not one component among many: it is the whole craft, refined over decades to a standard a factory choke is simply not built to chase.

Teague are renowned for precision thin-wall chokes — machined to exacting tolerances, delivering consistent, repeatable patterns shot after shot. That is exactly the edge a trap shooter feels when the second barrel of a DTL pair stretches out. Fit a set of Teague chokes to the Tribore HP barrels of an RS Trap and you have the best of both worlds: Fabarm’s barrel pedigree, and a choke specialist’s lifetime of doing one thing supremely well.

The smart moment to make that call is now, at the point of purchase — have your RS Trap and a matched set of Teague Precision Chokes leave together, set up as one package. Speak to the Gun Bar team about specifying Teague chokes with your order.

Everything The Trap Line Demands

A purpose-built trap gun, with the feature that usually costs five figures.

30-Inch Or 32-Inch — Right Or Left Hand

Four configurations, one gun. Pricing varies a little by configuration — and the team can help if you are unsure.

Fabarm Elos N2 RS Trap — Full Specifications

The complete specification for the Elos N2 RS Trap, as published by Fabarm. The 30″ and 32″ share one platform — they differ only in barrel length and the handling character that follows from it.

Where The RS Trap Earns Its Keep

Set the rib, set the comb — then go to work.

In Stock Now — Call The Team

An adjustable high rib at this price does not sit on the rack for long.

The good news is simple: the Fabarm Elos N2 RS Trap is in stock at Gun Bar now — in 30″ and 32″, right hand and left. There is no allocation queue to join; there is a gun ready to be set up and sent to you.

A genuine adjustable-high-rib trap gun at this price is a rare thing, and trap shooters know it — so stock does move. If you have decided the RS Trap is your gun, the move is to secure it while it is on the shelf.

The best first step is to call the Gun Bar team. Tell them your experience, your discipline, your build and how you like a gun to shoot. They will help you choose barrel length and hand, talk through whether a high rib genuinely suits you, and explain how the rib and comb are set up — and whether a Teague choke upgrade is worth it for you. Real advice from real shooters, before you spend a dollar.

One Family Of Italian Shotguns

The RS Trap is the dedicated trap specialist. The Fabarm range covers the rest.

Fabarm Elos N2 RS Trap — Common Questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most. Anything not covered? Call the team on 1800 GUNBAR.