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Category - Famars Abbiatico & Salvinelli Rifles - Rifles - African Dangerous Game Safari Double

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Famars Abbiatico & Salvinelli Rifles
Rifles - African Dangerous Game Safari Double

Abbiatico & Salvinelli African .470 NE, a best gun, NEW with case

Description:
Abbiatico & Salvinelli [FAMARS] .470 NE  NEW, cased. This gun is featured with a 35-minute video at rogerrule, on YouTube, “Special Guns with Roger Rule,” Episode 35.

Description:
Abbiatico & Salvinelli [FAMARS] model African Express .470 Nitro Express double rifle with 24" chopper lump ejector barrels with flat, matted quarter-rib and a front muzzle extension to protect the crowns. Though built in 2012, the bores remain as new. Rear Express flip-up sights, one standing marked  50 yard  and one folding marked 75 yard with gold lines. The gold bead front sight is longitudinally dovetailed into matching base.

Action: Action locks with triple Purdey bolting. Bolstered receiver is case hardened with bushed strikers, double triggers with the front trigger articulated. The safety is non-automatic, preferred for dangerous game guns. The H&H Southgate ejectors are automatic.The action screws have engraved locking screws and even the forearm iron has an engraved locking screw (hidden from view). Locking screws are a give-away, a true sign of a handmade gun.

Engraving: Receiver features border engraving with a Bulino engraved tusker on the floorplate by Italian Master Engraver Rinnissi and signed. The steel action, trigger-guard, tang, operation lever, pistol grip cap, and Anson forend release are color-case-hardened with border engraving.

Stock: The rifle is stocked in an outstanding piece of Turkish Walnut with deeply contrasting marble-cake lines with shadow line cheekpiece. Bottom tang is secured with two engraved tie-down screws and extends to a case hardened steel pistol grip cap with border engraving and two engraved screws.  The hand checkering is immaculately cut at 32 LPI in point pattern with double borders; covers two sides of the grip coming together over the wrist in a V border and is fully wrap-around on the splinter forearm.  The length of pull is 14 3/4" to its brown Decelerator pad (¾”) with light cast off for the right hand.  The wieght is proper for a real big bore at 10lb. 12 oz. which speaks well of the size and toughness built into this piece.

Inscriptions:  Famars – Italy on the left side of the barrels, and FAMARS on both the right and left bolsters of the receiver.  Also “Africa” in gold inlay on forearm iron showing on the bottom of the receiver and the serial number shows on the extended trigger guard. On the water table and the barrel flat, “FAMARS di ABBIATICO & SALVINELLI” and “Made in Italy” and “Cal. 470 N.E.” and the serial number “32433” and 2 proof marks.  On barrel flat only is the code C1 which is for the year it was made, 2012.

Case: It is cased in its Negrini plastic hard case made for Famars with their name inscribed in gold on the front lid, with a set of velour slip covers and a small Famars case with extra set of strikers and hammer springs.

Condition:
This rifle is a tough and stout double rifle, built the way a pre-War British Webley Double was made. It remains as new with the very slightest of handling marks. It has been fired but never hunted. The bores are new, regulated at the factory using Federal 500 grain soft point at 50 yards. This is as good as it gets relative to any current and modern double rifle. This piece is flat out one solid rifle with proper weight, toughness, a large 470-bore-sized action body that will withstand the test of time. This gun was built for hard use and it is doubtful that it will be worn out in several lifetimes.

Price: $38,750.00

Seller is the author of The Rifleman’s Rifle (Winchester pre-64 Model 70s), is liquidating his collection and will furnish a Letter of Provenance that this gun is from his collection.  Please check out author’s feedback on ebay under rcrwin70roger.  3-day non-firing inspection for full refund, buyer contributes $100 shipping to buyer’s FFL, payment by MO, certified check, wire transfer or personal check with wait for validation. For questions, call (808) 989-1863 and ask for Roger.


About the Maker:
Abbiatico & Salvinelli, a.k.a. FAMARS (Fabbrica Armi Mario Abbiatico & Remo Salvinelli)  Via Cinelli, 29. 25063 Gardone, Val Trompia, Italy, 1967 to 2012.
In the book, The Italian Gun by Steve Smith & Laurie Morrow, the authors classify A&S “right up there with the best and brightest of the Italian handmade-gun makers” (page 174). On p.154, the authors add, “they are in the company with Fabbri, F.lli Rizzini, and Luciano Bosis.”
In the book, Gamefield Classics, by Michel McIntosh & Bill Headrick, the authors state, “total output now (2008) is only about sixty guns and rifles each year, and that includes the SO9 Berettas that A&S makes under contract…”
In 2011, Italy found its country in a deep rooted economic and political recession. The trigger was the national debt crisis that shook the Eurozone due to its incomplete structure. Reforms implemented by a technocratic government carried out with no external financial assistances and did not address the sources of the problems.
Still in recession today, Italy needs to finally solve its structural problems and the European Monetary Union (EMU) needs to complete its architecture, starting with the completion of the Banking Union. The reaction to the crisis in 2011 took the form of austerity measures. Many companies had to close.
Today, FAMARS was rescued out of bankruptcy in 2012 by FAMARS USA under wealthy American ownership and continues to produce approximately 100 bespoke guns yearly in Italy with a small group of the original master craftsmen.

 


Price: $38,750.00