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Some may call this a shot gun but I believe Emil had other ideas for its use. The 12ga smoothbore barrels have a nice brown Damascus pattern and are 24 3/4 inches long. Upon a closer look you notice that instead of the customary bead front sight Emil fitted a longer, narrow blade type front sight and 7 1/2 inches from the breech he fitted a folding rifle-type sight complete with a silver insert. Looking at the tang there is,,,,a,,, folding rifle-type peep sight. It is completely adjustable for windage and elevation and folds neatly into a recess in the tang. If you take a look at the engraving, one lock is engraved with what appears to be waterfowl and the other lock is engraved with some type of antlered, four legged creatures,,, deer I am sure. It is apparent that Emil meant this to be a multi purpose firearm for all kinds of game!!!!!!

I have shot this with .690 round balls and shortened shotcups in Winchester AA's with 70 and 75 grains of FF. I also tried patching the .690s' and could not tell any difference. Groups were a little high and too far apart so I have loaded same shells with 80 and 85 FF. Hope it groups a little better as the lite 6 3/4 lb gun does tend to kick a fair abount!!!!

PICTURES COMING!!!!!

https://i.ibb.co/w0N50wF/IMG-3616.jpg
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Edited by Longknife (23/03/20 09:41 AM)

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