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Belategui 12 gauge Side-plated boxlock with Beautiful Deep Scroll Engraving
Guns International #: 101841593 Seller's Inventory #: Private Stock
Category: Shotguns - Spanish Double - Shotguns - Spanish
Seller's Information
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Seller: SxS Charlie
Member Since: 2/27/21
First Name: Charlie
Last Name: Sturdavant
State: Colorado
Zip: 80401
Country: United States
Phone: (303) 907-2295
Number of Active Listings: 0
Total Number of Listings: 12
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: Check, Money Order, Wire Transfer
Description:
SOLD PENDING FUNDS
This is a 12 gauge Spanish/Basque/Eibar side-plated boxlock with beautiful deep scroll engraving throughout. It has the initials JB stamped on the barrel flats and on the watertable. It was most likely built by Juan Antonio Belategui prior to 1983. In 1983 Belategui entered into the DIARM consortium fiasco that lasted until 1988, when it took many, formerly independent gun makers, under with it's demise. There are no markings to exactly date this gun. It has great, modern dimensions: 14-1/8"x1-3/8"x2-1/8", and shoots well at clays and pheasants with it's chokes of modified and improved modified. The 27-3/4" chopper lump barrels appear to have been polished and reblued, and still retain a minimum wall thickness of .26" near the chokes and .47" near the 2-3/4" chambers. It has a hand-filed flat rib with a brass bead front sight. I did not like the yellowed shellac or varnish finish of the stock, so I refinished it last year with a hand-rubbed oil and oil polymer finish, which shows off the grain of a rather plain stock. There are some minor scratches to the finish, since I used this gun frequently. The butt is checkered wood. The forend has a few chips on the inside that extend a little to the outside, along the left barrel. The forend iron has a small ding on the bottom skirt edge. It also has gold-plated double trigers, and a top tang, automatic slide safety. It has been a reliable gun for me.
SOLD
Antique: Yes
Shotgun Gauge: 12 Gauge
Manufacturer: Antonio Belategui
Serial Number: 5151
Barrel Length: 27-3/4
Chambers: 2-3/4
Ejectors: Well-timed
Condition: Good
Metal Condition: Clean
Wood Condition: Good-refinished
Bore Condition: Bright and shiny
Barrels: Re-blued
Barrel Type: Chopper Lump
Action: Boxlock
Triggers: Double/Gold plated
Stock: Straight English
Stock Dimensions:
14-1/8"x1-3/8"x2-1/4
Stock Comb: DAC: 1-3/8
Stock Heel: DAH: 2-1/4
Stock Cast: To the Right
Fore End: Deeley Release, Splinter with a few chips
Butt Pad: Checkered Wood
LOP: 14-1/8
Rib: Hand filed, tapered 11mm to 7mm
Finish: Refinished
Weight: 6# 4oz
Sights: Brass front
Manufacture Date: Pre-1983
Chokes: M/IM
Choke Left: Improved Modified
Choke Right: Modified
Engraving: Full deep-chiseled scroll
Case: Older Leg-O-Mutton