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Blaser F16 Game 28" WG4
Guns International #: 101133193 Seller's Inventory #: 33967
Category: Blaser Shotguns - Shotguns - Sporting Clays
Seller's Information
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Seller: Gordy and Sons Outfitters
Company: Gordy and Sons Outfitters
Member Since: 5/18/17
State: Texas
Zip: 77007
Country: United States
Phone: (713) 333-3474
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 250
Total Number of Listings: 4059
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: All credit cards
Description:
Blaser firearms are made in the bucolic country town of Isny, in southernmost Germany. It’s between Munich and Zurich, Switzerland, on the edge of the Alps and just a few miles from the border of the principality of Liechtenstein. Like all of Germany’s countryside, it is postcard neat, clean and organized. I visited the factory in 2012 and found it to be thoroughly modern. After almost 60 years in business, Blaser continues to produce its world-famous rifles in bolt action, the break-action single shot Stutzen, the over/under shotgun/rifle Bergstutzen and the three-barreled shotgun/rifle Drilling. Blaser started producing modern shotguns in 2003 with the F3 over/under in a clay-target version (Gun Review, Jan/Feb ’06) and a game model (Gun Review, March/April ’14.) The F3 over/under clays version has become quite popular in America, where it has won numerous championships in sporting clays and trap. Today its base price has increased from its introductory cost of less than $5,000 to about $8,000. While well less than Perazzi and Krieghoff guns, the technically innovative F3 is far above the excellent, basic $2,500 Beretta Silver Pigeon. Until now that has left a pretty good price gap . . . but Blaser has just filled it. Enter the Blaser F16, introduced this year. This isn’t just another version of the F3. It is a new gun with a new action. It costs half of what the F3 does, with the Sporting version listing for $4,195 and the Game version for $3,795, both currently available in 12 gauge only. Blaser was kind enough to send me an F16 Game gun with 28? barrels to review, and I want to say up front that it is quite a gun. The gunmetal-gray receiver immediately catches the eye. It is as far away as you can get from being overly fancy, but it has classic purity. Blaser says that the gun has the lowest-profile receiver on the market. A typical Beretta 680 series is about 1/16? deeper, and the Belgian Browning is ¼” deeper. Not that this matters, but the ad men like it. However, nothing is free. The F16’s receiver is 2mm wider than the F3’s.
SOLD
Manufacturer: Blaser
Model: F16
Caliber Info: 12 Gauge
Barrels: 28
Triggers: single selective
Gauge Info: 12 Gauge
Stock: 1
Stock Heel: 2 3/8
Stock Cast: 1 1/2
LOP: 14 3/4
Rib: vent
Weight: 7.2