Need some help to find value.

accumulaterjr

accumulaterjr

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Hello folks
so I took this shotgun in on trade and I can't really find anything about it online
on the side of the barrel it says
Fusil perfex brevete S.G.D.G. France etranger
serial number 142315
other side of the barrel says.
Chambre 70 acier special parachome Made in France Manufrance saint etienne
it's a semi auto 12 gauge and there is a proof mark.[video]http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah308/rayhancey/Mobile%20Uploads/20150103_175228_zpsjwfo202e.jpg[/video]
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Nice Manufrance!
I don't know much about them, shot one once, nice gun.
The Briggs and Stratton looking thingy on the front is a Cutts compensator, you can still find chokes for them around, Lyman bought them out and produced them for a while.
Cat
 
It is a nice gun to shoot. I'll likely end up keeping it for rabits or small game. Elwood Epps looked at it and said they could thread the barrel for chokes which I might do if I'm going to use it for hunting but right now I'd like to just know if I did alright on the trade
 
My French really sucks, but that first part basically says that this fusil (literally "rifle" or "gun") was manufactured for export and is patented SGDG - or pretty close.

A number of French gun mfg's make/made semi-shotguns that ended up here, there and everywhere.

In this case it appears to have been built by Saint-Etienne Arms, which when in business was "state owned". They had been around for a couple hundred years - started out making swords etc.

In 2001 they (the French Government) rolled the (company) into Nexter - another government owned defense company.

So what you have could be considered on par with say a Springfield rifle built at a US armory (kinda sorta - if you get where I'm going).

While I am ill equipped to give you a "what it's worth", if I came across this I wouldn't spend very much money on it, if any at all. It's basically a "functional" (if it's sound), un-remarkable "state built" shotgun that was destined for export - and not necessarily to somewhere that had a viable domestic firearms market.

(what would you pay for a surplus Enfield 303??? is kinda what my comments above are saying)
 
Ok well I'll just hang onto it then. I paid $75 for the item I traded for it so I thought I was doing ok. This one functions great for being what it is. Goes boomega every time. Doesn't jam. So anyways maybe I'll get the barrel threaded and use it for a bush gun
 
accumulaterjr said:
Ok well I'll just hang onto it then. I paid $75 for the item I traded for it so I thought I was doing ok. This one functions great for being what it is. Goes boomega every time. Doesn't jam. So anyways maybe I'll get the barrel threaded and use it for a bush gun
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Why bother messing with the Cutts, just get a different choke tube for it.
Cat
 
If it shoots ok then 75 bucks wasn't a bad deal - spending less than 100 bucks on a functioning firearms doesn't even count as money spent, does it?? :)
 
That is a Manufrance Perfex. Manufrance was a large state owned business that was for many years the largest firearms manufacturer in France (they also made bicycles). Unlike other large British and European makers like FN in Belgium, Manufrance was not particularly export oriented, That's why we see relatively few of them. They made sporting guns between about 1888 and around 1985 when they shut down. Manufrance made almost 1 million of the Robust model, a SxS, one of several SxS models they made. To put that into perspective the total Fox production is around 250,000 guns and I think total Parker production is around 400,000.

I own a high grade Ideal model and believe Manufrance to be greatly underestimated for value, primarily because so few North Americans know anything about them.
 
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