Sorry, I never followed up on this thread. The shotgun was actually a Fabrique dArmes Unies de LIEGE SA. I ended up selling it to a Belgian shotgun fan last summer. I really enjoyed the shotgun for the few years I owned it, but as with most light, fast handling shotguns I was inconsistent with it. I replaced it with a similar Merkel 200E 16 and shot that one worse! Bye bye! My continental O/U keeper is a 12 ga. 200E. That one works for me.