Nice scalloped back Simpson, JayCee!
I have a plainer one marked BSW that was made just after the Nazis took over Simson in 1936; it is also marked by a retailer in Salonika, Greece who had an Armenian surname.
It was brought to the US by an Army Air Corps officer when he returned from Germany after WWII. I have often wondered how it got from Salonika back to Germany.... Confiscated by the Germans? Probably never know. 29 1/2" barrels choked "full and fuller."
What were the chokes on this one, if you remember? I've never thought of trying slugs on mine, although the "Original Brenneke" slugs say they are safe in full chokes, and as the discussion in another thread tells, German chokes were often VERY full.
Saludos,
Mike Armstrong
