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It looks like they all have barrel hangers now. Review your high school French and order a technical manual. No fuss, no muss.

There's bugger all to go wrong and it works fine with a sling. [/quote]

More important is that they are so ugly that no one will ever steal it, even in a third world country. Your friends would destroy any pictures or records of you and that gun after your death, your ex wife would have you buried with it.

Thanks JayCee, I didn't know if they were still available.

Sorry Eightbore I did German, Spanish and Latin at school; French is consider the Devil's language here. The only French words I know are Agincourt, Crecey, Poitiers and Waterloo. :-) Lagopus.....

JayCee I did a Google translation. http://www.bretton-gaucher.com/f_pres.htm Still not much better informed. I'm sure that they will understand English if I print it out in Capital letters. :-) Lagopus.....

Those crazy French. They continue to amaze me when it comes to design.

A fellow in my gun club used to drive a Citroen Maserati. I understand it is a quick little bugger, but I managed to restrain myself from ever asking for a test drive. If I ever find a Darne with an intelligent stock, I may take the plunge.

It looks prettier than a lot of Kreighoffs I have seen.

I'll bet you'd have to look very long and very hard to find one of these with evidence of heavy usage. The combination of ultra light weight and heavier 12 gauge shells would quickly wear on all but the most recoil-immune among us.

That said, it's very nicely done, if a bit out of the ordinary. For the price of a Stevens in decent condition (over here in the U.S., anyway), you have a far more interesting and much better finished sample of the firearms art.

Let us know how you do with it after you've shot it a bit. I've been fascinated by them since seeing Gun Digest articles from the 60s about them.

I have a more recent sample....Mine actually has a safe!

However the gun needs to be off safe to load and unload with the action cocked! Otherwise the action lever will not rotate enough to allow the gun to open.

Also, In a lapse of judgement about two years ago; I shot two rounds of skeet with mine using the Winchester X-tra Lite trap loads....Even with these loads it's a handful to hang on to and it does recoil briskly. So briskly that the little piece of steel that retains the forend wood yanked the screw out of the aluminum receiver. Now it's heli-coiled with a larger and coarser stainless screw.....so it will stay put!

I'll take a flyer at the "L", lagopus. The French have never been big on choke markings, but I have seen a few marked "lisse". Literally, that means smooth. It's cylinder on a shotgun. I can't recall reading anything where the French used "lisse" with an adjective starting with a as the equivalent of our improved cylinder, but I suppose that'd be a possibility for "LA".