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I'm eyeing an Anton Zoli 20ga O/U, but can find very little about them. It looks like a side plated boxlock, has Italian proof marks but has a very Germanic air about it. Anyone with any knowledge or rxperience with these? Thanks much.
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Beware; there are some weird Zoli's out there, just as there are Beretta's.
Antonio Zoli can, has and is making some spectacular guns via their custom shop as well as today's well made production target guns. They also made certain guns to a price point at an earlier time; perhaps not the best bidness plan, IMHO, but it remains a fact. Those guns in no way compare to their better efforts.
FWIW, 'Anton' sounds like a wannabe, but I could, as Russ used to say, be wrong.
On the Beretta side, I've seen some 'Dr. X Beretta's that were not P.B.'s .. by any stretch.
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I had an Antonio Zoli 20 O/U back in the 1970s that sounds a bit like the one you describe. Can't remember the model name but it was a boxlock w/case colored sideplates, two triggers, extractors, a solid rib, and sling swivels. NOT a high grade gun but killed chukars like a champ.
75mm chambers, OF COURSE (never had an Italian 20 that didn't....).
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Someone correct me if my memory is not what it once was, but I think I once owned a Zoli-made gun that was made for and marketed by Sears??? Sound like I am losing it? The best I can remember is that the gun, although totally unremarkable in any way, was a decent shooter to point of aim and I did kill a few birds with it. But of course, the trading bug hit and the Sears/Zoli left my holdings. Mine was a 20 gauge.
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Here's a thread from another board that talks about the Antonio Zoli gun sold by Sears. It also talks about Angelo Zoli guns. Anton Zoli guns weren't talked about http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopi...Angelo#p2854539
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After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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