Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Well, kinda, Gnomon.
The steel facility that supplies the gun makers in the Eibar region is a cooperative. The bits of one manufacturer gun's come from the same place as the gun that was made down the street. And, the bits are castings, not forgings.
Ted


Respectfully, and with no offense intended, this is untrue; the 'bits' found in Spanish shotguns are not castings. The day one finds a cast part in a Spanish shotgun is the day to beware of pigs roosting in the tree tops :-)