I own a Grade 4 28 bore in the dual digit 471xxx series...The gun is phenomenal!
The Krupps barrel as produced by Merkel are perfect and very robust. The receiver...if I recall correctly was made I believe in Belgium by VGM with USA made innards.
These late guns are about ten fold better than the 470 series Italian guns. The wood is stunning as is the engraving.
ICD was literally 5 miles form my house and I visited Steve Lamboy numerous times at the shop. Steve had numerous production issues with parts from Italy...Making working guns from them was often very challenging for his gunsmiths who were very talented.
(As an example; I cite an Italian supplied barrel set that I examined that had miss matched barrels...28 gauge bores with 20 gauge chambers.....like I said challenging!)
It is really sad that they went belly up. Steve is a good man and always wanted the best for his clients. Toward the end they guns they were turning out were really very nice.
