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That is nice field gun. Reminds me of Henri Pieper BLNE with Baynard? steel barrels I looked over. That one had blackened receiver neat third fastener/slide type fastening and screw through wood behind receiver to prevent stock splitting at the tang. Yours has much nicer wood the other gun had plain light colored Walnut w/o much figure which I was told by another member was French. It was similar to what is found on knockabout field grade Darnes and Brownings from 1960s.

That gun was marketed by Geco. From what I can tell, it was made by Fabrique National and is their "Anson" model. I would also wager it was a pre-WWII gun. Their later models (post-war) were called the "New Anson" if I recall correctly and they were built a bit different and were heavier. This earlier model has a Greener cross-bolt, side clips, and very subtle border engraving (more like outlining). It was built as a 12-70 gun and weighs 6.5 lbs with 28" barrels. I had the chokes opened to skeet 1 and skeet 2, though I'm not certain the smith opened them up quite enough. I have yet to pattern it, but it's lively in the hand and I like to carry different guns on different days. It keeps things interesting and fun, so that's why she came out in the woods with me today.

Big let down. The bores were at minimum 60% pitted. This was after I had the the store representative personally inspect the gun and answer my questions over the phone. He told me he did not see any pitting and the bores were very good. Sadly that was not the case. It's going back for a full refund.

I really BIG thank you to GLS and DaveinMaine for all their help and assistance through this. Shame it didnt work out.

C'est la vie...