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This appears to be a clone of the Beretta Companion folding shotgun. However, instead of having an action opening lever ahead of the trigger guard as in the Beretta guns, this appears to have a side lever. Additionally, according to the description, the barrel is rifled. I wonder if this is for slugs, or if this is similar to the Supra rifling found on the French becassier and Italian woodcock guns. I know Fabrica Nazionale d'Armi was a military arms producer, which makes this gun rather interesting. https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/731165485
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Any ideas? As always any comments are welcome...
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I guess if this gun is too obscure for this crew, it must be an oddball...
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I patterned this contraption yesterday at 15 yds. A dense even pattern that measured over 30" in diameter. I guess I figured out what its purpose was intended to be. Now if I could just find a way to prevent the side lever from digging into my hand when I fire the lightweight gun, it would make a nice light woodcock single shot gun!
Next, I may try to fire a sabot out of it and see how it shoots.
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Is the barrel, in fact, rifled?
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Yes it is. I wish I could describe how it was done. Its rather strange and unlike the barrel of a rifle in that the grooves are very narrow and shallow. There are a total of seven grooves and just by looking down the bore, it is an extremely slow twist. It would probably not shoot a sabot very well.
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Is it just at the muzzle end or through the entire barrel length?
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Gil,
It's the entire length of the barrel...
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I saw the tool that did that rifling in St. Etienne. It was an ancient Cincinnati lathe with an attachment that drove a spindle about one turn forward, and then one turn backward through the barrel. How long the rifling was would depend on your cutter, but, the one I saw started just outside of the monobloc, and stopped just before where the choke would be. Perhaps 12-15 inches.
A lot of the specialty machines and tooling I saw was older, American equipment, designed or adapted for a single task. The press that puts the Darne name on the opening lever was built in the USA. Sometimes the punch broke and the guns had the name engraved in a recess, which is never as neat and clean as the punch, so few are like that.
Best,
Ted
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Caleb, weren't the woodcock/rabbit rifled guns just in the front of the muzzle? Gil
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