I really don't have a question about this one. Just thought I'd share . . .

This is a 12 gauge German made hammer gun. I'm not entirely sure of the vintage but I'd say it's pre-World War II given that the stock and barrels are marked "Germany" and not West Germany (it's too old to be post-unification). It was exported by GECO, but I'm not sure of the maker. It has Krupp steel nitro-proofed barrels. Appears to be built on a 13 gauge tube set. It's clearly a base model as it lacks any engraving or other embellishment. Chambers are pretty darn close to 2-3/4.

The sad thing is that it has a pretty bad area of corrosion/pitting on the outside of the left barrel, just ahead of the chamber. It appears to be perhaps a blood stain that was allowed to rust during gun storage. I tell myself the gun is safe to shoot -- and have, in fact, shot light target loads. The walls of the barrels/chambers seem plenty thick and the pitting is no deeper than fancy engraving would be. In fact, most of the pitting is no deeper than the GECO stamp on the barrels. FWIW, I sent it to a well-respected barrel smith to have the chokes opened and instructed him not to do anything if he was concerned about the barrel integrity. The barrels came back opened up with no comment about the the pitting so I'm assuming it passed the master's muster.

The gun handles very nicely. Just a sweet shooting, easy pointing gun. I've thought about selling it because I've since acquired a couple of nicer/better hammer guns but the thing is just too sweet to let go.

Anyway, I shot some photos so I thought I'd share . . .