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Interesting that in Pete's catalog copy, they specify not to use T powder with slugs.

Larry,

I had not noticed that before. I know for a time T was considered a more powerful powder. It was used in Belgium for a short time for Nitro proof because it could consistently produce higher pressures.

Pete

Sorry I am late getting back.
R.R No offense at all and Was not worried about montary value As I paid MUCH less than. 1K. I had never heard the name befor but outside of the bore it looked like a quality product at one time and a excellent doner for a possible project.

Skeettx.Rifling ??? for about the first 6 inches looks bad. If the rifling was real light it could be loaded with lead or.?? And being honest I did not care. But in front of that area things look great. Whitey

Mike Armstrong: I also remember the advertisements for those relatively inexpensive French SxS 16GA shotguns. IIRC they were in the Shooting Times magazine around the mid 1960s.

Pete, so there is no confusion, only the ones on the right hand pages of the catalogue you posted are Idéals.

JC

Thanks, Ian. I used to read "Shooting Times" a lot; then switched to Rifle/Handloader, and some specialty ones like "Small Bore News" or some such title.

Hello Mike,

Just finished reading Martin Godio's article on Idéals (DGJ Winter 2006) and in passing he mentions Manufrance Robusts and says: "This shotgun was advertised in American magazines in the sixties" (page 126).

JC

I think they were available in the States into the late 70's or early 80's, at least. Don Zutz mentions them in his "The Double Shotgun" as being current imports, and it dates from that period.