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I suppose I should clarify. I won this auction. I just wondered if any of my opposing bidders happened to be a member. I also wonder what everyone thinks of it.
I like it...but that was my high limit. Just happened to work out.
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"Chokes unknown, it is marked on the barrel flats but the way it's marked didn't make sense to me."
The marks probably include the chamber length; if 70mm you're in luck.
Siemens-Martin steel was good stuff.
Once you have the gun please post detailed images and we may be able to give you more information. The lettre annale appears to be a lower case 'i' which would be 1930.
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Thanks Drew. The pictures are poor, but I did notice the chambers were marked with the "sideways omega", which if I'm not mistaken makes its post-1924 anyways. I have requested a clear picture of the barrel flats so we'll see what additional information that provides.
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He just sent me the pictures. Sadly, it appears the chambers are 65mm. Not that I couldn't just use RSTs or Polywad, but it would have been easier with 70mm chambers...
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Please have a double gun specialist check and clean the gun before use. If the chambers have been lengthened, very careful measurements of the wall thickness at the end of the chamber and forcing cone need to be taken.
The bore in mm over muzzle dimension is likely just forward of the flats, but may well have changed since 1930.
Hope the gun works out for you.
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Dr. Drew and others...not to "jump the shark" but it seems to me that a lot of French guns I've been watching are advertised as having chambers lengthened from 65mm (2 1/2) to 70mm 2 3/4. French guns are pretty robust... But if they haven't been reproofed...and almost none of them have over here that I know of..how much of a problem is this? How should they be checked out? If you buy them and they aren't safe, you're pretty much..(what was that old military saying-SOL?).
Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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My thoughts are here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZIo0y746UsSRZIgRuuxwAbZjSBHitO_EanvwLYc-kGA/edit"Inexpert" chamber lengthening of small bore or light British 12b game guns may create inadequate wall thickness where pressure is highest. In heavy barreled turn-of-the-century U.S. maker 12g doubles, the angle of the forcing cone is usually greater than the taper of the exterior of the barrel, so it is not uncommon that the forcing cone WT is the same or greater than the end of the chamber WT. A 16g Smith with chamber lengthened to 2 7/8". Wall thickness at the end of the chamber was .096" and I suspect SuperX Magnums were involved  
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I don't think the previous owner of that great little gun had enough time away from hunting to send it to a gunsmith for barrel work. My guess is that it is still 65MM.
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