Originally Posted By: Ken61

Another "Sleeper" is Zastava, as far as field-grade A&D boxlocks. In now what is Serbia. Zastava was set up by a group of German investors, as I understand FN was. The few I've handled were very well made, and reminded me of typical German field-grade guns. There's more of them popping up now. Aesthetically, they look and feel better than the other Eastern-European types.


I had one of those in 16 gauge. Talk about a tank. The steel was a vanadium alloy and just tough beyond description. The 16 gauge I bought had insufficient headspace for SAAMI shells and getting a tiny increase to SAAMI minimum had my gun smith swearing and sweating.