What side by side?

iron cat said:
Thanks! It was designed to be very functional , hence the request for low comb for quick mounting and shooting,rebounding hammers, and color case hardened side locks instead of a coined finish and double triggers .:cool:
Cat
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Do you know if the case hardening is chemical or bone and charcoal on them fair shotguns?
 
Whitetail Junkie said:
Do you know if the case hardening is chemical or bone and charcoal on them fair shotguns?
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Good question!
I think I asked when the guns were being made, but in all honesty I cannot remember! I have written an email to FAIR , asking them about their process.
I do know that Pedersoli uses a bone and charcoal system , but not sure about FAIR.
Cat
 
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Mount Sweetness said:
I have a Franchi O/U made by FAIR. The receiver is "case colour", it wore off completely in 3 seasons of hunting, down to bare metal.
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I cannot see the Iside Vintage being any different as far as the case coloring goes if the Aspire was done with a chemical process, but who knows for sure. It may have been a cost reduction thing.
My Iside Vintage is pretty much the same as far as the metal finish goes after more than a few seasons being carried, but I wear gloves when I shoot , even in the summer.
The oils from a person's hand can do untold damage to finishes!:p
Cat
 
The case hardening finish is mostly gone from my FAIR as well. I've carried it hunting on numerous occasions but mostly it's been around the sporting clays range a bunch of times. Round count is in the order of 12 or 13,000 and the gun is in otherwise very good condition. the lock up is tight and it will last for a long time yet... just without color on the receiver.
 
Mount Sweetness said:
FAIR made the Aspire O/U's for Franchi. It is very much a FAiR Pathos with a few tweaks.
It's an awesome gun by the way, my #1 Favourite bird gun by far.
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There's a used 410 available in London, ON:
https://www.gobles.ca/franchi-aspire-over-under-shotgun-410-x-3-28-bbls.html

I almost bought an Aspire as I had really wanted a RoundBody O/u gun for a number of years and couldn't afford one....used to drool over the ShootingSportsman magazine adds back when you could still get it at Chapters.
Well when I finally went to Epps to look for a shotgun (not a round body but to get something nice to get back into shotgunning) my decision came down between a 28gauge Aspire and a 20gauge WebleyandScott 2020K (the Turkish AKUS made guns like the DickinsonEstates, SmithAndWessonGolds and SKB 200HR), which was also a round body styled gun plus they had 3 in stock to choose from.
Neither of these I had seen before and was really taken with them both in person.
I chose the sxs in the end. Totally unplanned but happily that openned the door back into Sxs's for me....I had hunted with a BRNO 12g for years when I was a teenager and into early my 20's, but this was another decade or so later.
Anyways the Aspires looked like a great gun for the purpose and I almost brought one home.
 
Well first thing I will say is kudos to PR for offering a full refund, any dealings I have had with them have been top notch. You buy a gun at Cabelas and it is YOUR problem as soon as you leave the store and they will do nothing for you if you have a malfunctioning firearm right out of the box. My only experience with a Huglu is a beautiful little 28g O/U I bought recently. Fit and finish is very good and the Turkish walnut is beautiful. So far the gun has functioned perfectly and hits where it’s pointed but the issue I have is that it just does not pattern well with whatever choke or ammo is used. I am going to try some aftermarket extended choke tubes to see if that might improve it at all.
 
Find a late model Japanese SKB with the screw in chokes that are steel shot safe. A BSS in mod/imp would be tough enough. Winchester Model 23s were not steel proofed and are a bit light for duck loads recoil. The earlier SKB models with fixed chokes are fantastic upland handling guns but much too light for duck and goose loads. Most British doubles are not made for heavy or magnum loads. Hard on the shoulder and liable to break a stock.
 
Melvin said:
Find a late model Japanese SKB with the screw in chokes that are steel shot safe. A BSS in mod/imp would be tough enough. Winchester Model 23s were not steel proofed and are a bit light for duck loads recoil. The earlier SKB models with fixed chokes are fantastic upland handling guns but much too light for duck and goose loads. Most British doubles are not made for heavy or magnum loads. Hard on the shoulder and liable to break a stock.
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Second this motion..
 
The other gun that maybe meets the bulk of the OP's specs is the Fabarm Classis, english stock, ejectors, oiled finish, 3" proofed for 1350bar high pressure steel ammo, as per new Euro standards, interchangeable chokes, 28 or 30" barrels, but, it is an SST, and they are not CCH'd. Don't knock the SST's, may not be "traditional", but they work just fine, and they've been around for 100yrs plus too. Ran one since 2014 now, case and 1/2 or so every year, of 3" bb's and #3 at 1450, shot likely a case of the 1-1/8oz 1550fps loads too, zero issues other than LH ejector needed fixing after closure on a pea, my fault, I forced it. Shot it in rain and snow too.
Korth is dist for Fabarm up here now, Classis not listed on US site, have to go to Italian site, although, I think US has the 20ga Autumn, same gun, different dressing & DT's. Boxlock will run around 3500, sideplated ClassisIV around 6k.
Other one I use is a FAIR Iside Vintage 20ga hammergun, same as Cat's, no beefs. FAIR is not as well finished as the Fabarm. And the Fabarm chokes have to be patterned to believe what they do, their Mod is perfectly useful for snows at altitude or at the edge of dekes, far better than my SBE was.
 
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