Our local Benelli importer managed to get one, just one, sample 828 and he was kind enough to let me gain some hands on familiarity with it. It is an unusual Over Under, but not as unusual as some others I have held. The sleek lines reminded me of the Swedish Flodman, which coincidentally was […]
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The purposely dark lighting of the video does not reveal the forend configuration, the iron seems to be gone. A new OU from a company that till now made nothing but inertia autos is definitely news! The new OU can be seen in a teaser clip on youtube, right here: The word teaser ticks me
The word new has been a little overused by marketing people, but this shotgun deserves the title. The creation of a highly qualified engineer, the new Lastra (the name of its inventor) offers a number of features that put this shotgun in a class of its own and might just make it a game changer.
The photos are at these sites and they are worth a look: http://www.grives.net/index.php?mod=forum&ac=voir&id=3681 http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero- 427-janvier-2011/page-52-53-texte-integral http://www.naturabuy.fr/fusil-collection-actionless-47-pieper-item-1700613.html It is odd isn’t it! Those triggers in a hollow nest in the stock, the Over Under that opens to the side, the ridged monobloc, the overall look is just odd. . But beyond the oddity and the eccentricity
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NOT FITTED ON THE CIRCLE This Midland Gun Company double looks like any other round bar back action hammer gun. Traditional shotgun lore insists on fitting on the circle for a strong and durable joint between barrels and action. Fitting on the circle is a simple concept, but hard and tedious to achieve. It involves
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A machined Ferlib Euro action, possibly the most elegant Italian boxlock ever made. The bar is parallel, the top strap meets the action in a sweep, yet the top strap is straight and the bottom strap reflects the straightness. A comment by my friend Jim Bode of Beretta Paralleli led to this image intensive discourse.
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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Photos: Haris Gikas The stock of the 486 was pulled to reveal a Blitz action. Finally I got my hands on the new 486. After reading about the new side by side for months and being confused by the reviews, I got a chance to pull off the stock and see
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A NEW SYNTHESIS The new prototype does not look out of place in a vintage case. After several thousand articles on guns the time has come to do rather than merely report and describe: to build my own side by side based on ideas and inspiration drawn from close contact with every type of shotgun
It has been called Palintid, guerrilla gun, slam fire, zip gun. It is a crude setup consisting of two pipes contrived to fire a shotgun cartridge, usually 12 gauge. See it here before we proceed: As you can see the Palintid is an open system. There is no locking. Yet it is evident from this
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QUEST FOR THE MODERN HAMMER GUN “So, does it exist? Or is it just a hypothetical gun?” asked one reader in reference to the idea discussed in the article titled “Shotgun Design- A Modern Hammer Gun?”. Aswer: well, it does and it does not exist. For legal reasons it cannot be made in any form
