Hi all, I've never bought from them, but I have heard that the guns they are good to deal with and the guns are as described.
GDR (DDR) shotguns were all made in the same factory as stated in previous posts, The Ernst Thalmann Peoples Works. The Reds labeled their guns with the names of pre war makers, such as Merkel, Sauer, Simson, Wolf to name some. And also under their own banner, Fortuna, Buhag etc. Basically all the same gun, just different names stamped on them.
The quality of these guns range from low end (for the common folk)to high class ones for Party Bigshots. They even had classifications for the guns quality. These codes can be found on the bbl lumps of the gun and are:
Q1 (since the early 60s) and “S” (until 1960) = superior quality over the average level of the world market
1 = good quality on the average level of the world market
2 = sufficient quality; adequate but below world market level
Perhaps someone who is an expert on German shotguns will chime in and expand on this.
All the best!
Greg
