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rpeck



Reged: 06/12/13
Posts: 435
Loc: Canada
Belgian/German Cape Gun
      05/06/17 06:52 AM

Picked up a Cape Gun on trade. Its 16 G (right, front trigger) and 12.17x44 (left). Marked "F and HANDQUET, LIEGE". It has German steel barrels, marked with nice big German Imperial Eagle Crests and "Fluss Stahl Fein." Good rifling and the shotgun barrel is shiny with no dents. Overall its in good condition. Not sure how to load for it but I am told that the 12.17 caliber rounds can be made fairly easily from .348 Win brass.

My question is: Does anyone know a way to date it? Could this be considered an antique (pre-1898) gun in the USA? (In Canada its never an official antique firearm no matter how old it is, because you can still shoot it with a modern 16 ga. shell.)












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* Belgian/German Cape Gun rpeck 05/06/17 06:52 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun 416rigby   05/06/17 10:03 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun rpeck   05/06/17 10:48 PM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun DarylS   06/06/17 03:11 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun Wayne59   06/06/17 05:41 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun bigskybound   06/06/17 01:04 PM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun Wayne59   07/06/17 08:15 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun rpeck   08/06/17 11:05 PM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun Wayne59   09/06/17 10:13 AM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun rpeck   11/06/17 07:00 PM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun DarylS   05/06/17 01:26 PM
. * * Re: Belgian/German Cape Gun lancaster   05/06/17 09:31 PM

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