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French 16 ga. Looks very much like a Manufrance gun. Right barrel rifled with right hand twist.Left barrel smooth. I've seen many French guns but none with rifling. Serial # 78262 on fore end, no # on any other part.Modest engraving. Info appreciated.
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Photos of proof marks, barrel flats, water table, key, chambering marks, etc. would help. Please. Naturabuy.Fr has a number of French shotguns with rifling.
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Canon raye. Becassier (spelling?). Creates spreader patterns for woodcock...Geo
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Canon raye. Becassier (spelling?). Creates spreader patterns for woodcock...Geo Yep. Just as Geo says, rifled to disperse shot at under 15 m. Would love to see pix & details on your fusil becassier!
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Its as GN says, raye bored, if only near the muzzle.
In the FWIW dept. there are several dif. rifled shotgun bbls.
1) Gauge bored w/which I have zero experience aside from having seen some interesting specimens.
2) raye bored; a uniquely French approach to wood cock. note: a long time ago I used to get a rise here ref.in' it as a ortolon boring, but too many knew the real drill;-)
3) paradox guns, used to impart a spin for stabilization of slugs and balls used against dangerous game
4) diffusion type or rifled screw-in chokes
In my experience, raye bores and the rifled or diffusion type screw-in chokes all yield IC percentage patterns when using plastic wads and that would be my expectation w/the gun you describe from its rifled bbl.
Should you buy it and find otherwise, would be much interested in knowing about that.
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That number, if an Ideal, would put it with only 367 other Ideals made in 1939, with WWII already pounding on the door. There may not have been time to put much engraving on. You state no other markings/numbers- I would be surprised if the finished bore diameters, in mm, are absent from the tubes just ahead of the flats. Mike
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French 16 ga. Looks very much like a Manufrance gun. Right barrel rifled with right hand twist.Left barrel smooth. I've seen many French guns but none with rifling. Serial # 78262 on fore end, no # on any other part.Modest engraving. Info appreciated. Particularly likely that it's a woodcock version (becassier) if the barrels are short and the gun is light. The French seem to specialize in that particular setup, although I've seen some Italian guns with one barrel that has dispersion rifling.
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Guns International 100943538 shows barrels of sample gun from muzzle end. While the gun doesn't show being shot much Interestingly previous owner used very tightly choked left barrel more than rifled right tube.
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I would LOVE to hear/see some empirical evidence from paper patterning of one of these barrels versus a cylinder bore or improved cylinder choke. Please, please, please, if someone has one, could you post pattern-board pictures of one of the pattern from one of these barrels versus the other open chokes (or lack thereof)?
These guns seem to be a white buffalo of sorts for me. Finding one with good condition, but also for the right price is seemingly a difficult challenge given the small sample of these guns that made it to our shores here in the US.
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Yes, it would be interesting to see what happen if modern shell with plastic shot cup if fired through that gizmo.
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Goggle these terms to take a look at what is available on the French Market - most are o/u. "fusil de chasse" becassier juxtapose canon rayé naturabuy Here is a Saint Etienne shotgun "artisanal" which might be similar to what you're looking at: Fusils Juxtaposés calibre 12 Marque : Favier Etat de l'objet : d'occasion Détentes : Double détente Type d'éjection : Extracteurs Chambrage : 70 mm Arme pour droitier ou gaucher : Droitier Longueur de crosse : 370 Poids : 2760 Longueur de canon : 60 cm Chokage ou chokes fournis : Lisse, Rayé Epreuve bille d'acier : Non Garantie : non Artisanal Favier sur système Helice , Bécassier canons Heurtier de 60 lisse et rayé ,bronzage patiné mais trés correct ;un leger manque ancien à la crosse voir image canons mirroir , fusil en trés bon état de fabrication artisanale , fusil agréable et qui monte facilement échange possible contre juxtaposés artisan cal 16 crosse anglaise ou fusil de fosse ou centrale + collier repérage ( jag)
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A few years back, some OU's with one barrel that had dispersion rifling were imported to the States. They were Italian, but I can't remember who made them. We had one, 20ga, in our Ruffed Grouse Society sponsor drawing. Barrels were about 24", IIRC. I also have a Verney-Carron catalog from 1999 showing that they offered them (OU only) back then. (At that time, they were no longer making sxs. Instead, the sxs offered in their catalog were being made for them elsewhere in the European Union. Two models, one of which looked very Spanish, the other German.) They're now back in the higher dollar sxs business, having acquired Demas a few years ago and basically producing those guns as a "custom shop" product. Don't know whether they currently offer any "becassier" sxs models.
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A few years back, some OU's with one barrel that had dispersion rifling were imported to the States. The French maker was Gaucher.
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A few years back, some OU's with one barrel that had dispersion rifling were imported to the States. They were Italian, but I can't remember who made them. We had one, 20ga, in our Ruffed Grouse Society sponsor drawing. Barrels were about 24", IIRC. I also have a Verney-Carron catalog from 1999 showing that they offered them (OU only) back then. (At that time, they were no longer making sxs. Instead, the sxs offered in their catalog were being made for them elsewhere in the European Union. Two models, one of which looked very Spanish, the other German.) They're now back in the higher dollar sxs business, having acquired Demas a few years ago and basically producing those guns as a "custom shop" product. Don't know whether they currently offer any "becassier" sxs models. Larry, Are you talking about the Fabarm Paradox?
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Wouldn't the use of shot cups negate much of the pellet dispersion the rifling was intended to produce?
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Wouldn't the use of shot ups negate much of the pellet dispersion the rifling was intended to produce? Joe, This is exactly what I would love to know if anyone owns one of these shotguns and can show pattern results.
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It was a Fabarm, although I don't recall that it had "Paradox" marked on it. We tested one, and it did throw an extremely open pattern through the rifled barrel, even with standard US ammo with a plastic wad.
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