After having made some denigrating remarks about Turkish shotguns I acquired one yesterday and must confess that the damned thing is very well made. CZ has made a brilliant move in marketing these guns and anyone yearning for a neat s/s double cannot go wrong in purchasing one. Some years ago, maybe 8 or 10 I saw a heap of Huglus on one of the tables of the CADA show and they were horrible! Humpy undulating ribs, bad metal to metal and equally bad wood joining. Well, the Bobwhite model I have had a hard, feature-less walnut stock and forend. The epoxy finish was difficult to remove but after repeated soakings in paint remover I finally got the damned stuff off. Since there was virtually no grain to the wood, I stained it with Beinert's
blood red stain and finished with two coats of satin urethane.
What surprised me most was the very neat workman-like guts of the little box lock. Dovetail edges of the frame serve nicely to brace the head of the stock. The interior of the gun was as well-done as any boxlock I've ever entered. I haven't shot it yet but have no reason to believe it will be anything but a reliable little 28 bore. And so I have eaten a cold supper of Turkish crow. Chopper
