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Thanks Mike, your reply came as I was trying to get the attached photos. I see the first provisional mark in (a), the view mark, and the optional provisional. Under (b) I see the provisional and the definitive and the view. I am wondering what the numbers are, looks like it might be 18.2 ( left barrel) and 18.6 (right barrel)

Thanks Mike...you have been a great help!

Thanks,

Help is what this site is about.

Learning and helping and lusting after the gun eye candy

Merry Christmas

Mike

p.s. come north and west and we will play, I have the keys to the skeet and trap range
After all, you are only 650 miles away.

Rooster,
I used to have a similar shotgun to yours. I purchased it for $75 at a shop in northern Illinois. I used to shoot it at SXS events using Winchester AA Low recoil/noise shells. My gun was unnamed, but made in Belgium like yours.
Steve

lol @ Mike...yep...Texas is a big State, but rest assured, if I decide to come North and West, I will give you a shout. You were a wealth of info and help on this as well as teaching me about posting photos...give yourself an "Atta Boy" for me!

@ Steve, Thanks for the advice about the shells, I may try sandbagging it and attach a string to the trigger about 20 yds away and see if it is safe. You say low brass, would you say that dove/ skeet loads would be ok? I think it would be neat to shoot it....not sure what chokes it has but I think the 18.2 & 18.6 on the barrels is the choke...I just have to figure out what that is, but I am betting full and mod.

18.6mm = .732", 18.2mm = .7165". Nominal 12ga bore dia of .729" = 18.5mm. Unless it vastly over size bores those sound more like Cyl & � choke to me. Then again they may just be the bore dias & one bbl has an undersize bore. I haven't looked up the Belgian marks in a while but seem to recall that if the bbl as only one mark it is bore size. If choke is marked there should be two marks, as for instance 18.5, 18.2 both on the same bbl, then it would be choked by .3mm/.012".

Rooster,
Forget the dove/skeet loads to start. Buy Winchester AA Low Recoil/Low Noise Target loads. These loads use 26 grams of shot and are very low pressure shells used by trap/skeet and cowboy action shooters. When I lived up north I'd refill them with #6 shot and use them as my right barrel shell for pen-raised pheasants.
Steve