Vetterli... 12 Gauge shotgun

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  • It’s a bolt action, tube magazine fed shotgun chambered in a centerfire 12 gauge shell that would’ve been 2-1/2" in length unfired
  • The barrel is twist steel and was made by Leopold Bernard of Paris in 1881
  • The only other marking on the gun aside from the barrel makers mark is located on the trigger guard and is the old SIG factory marking which reads “Soc. Ind. Suisse Syst. Vetterlin”
  • While the shotgun is definitely a Vetterli it has more in common with some trials rifles made in Switzerland in the late 1870’s than with the Swiss military Vetterli’s
  • The closest relative of this design appears to be a trials Vetterli in 11mm Gras and because of that and the French made barrel I suspect it was made to be sold on the French market but I have no proof of this.
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    I know it will never happen but i would love to see italy with a shotgun and the axis and not just a double barrel. Yes its a civilian gun but so were many of the shotguns used by the us and japan. it be good as a br2 axis weapon in the tech tree but as an event weapon would be fun as well. jus found a fun looking guns and though i woudl share it.
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No thanks, US and Japan need their unique semi auto shotguns kept to them (ironic that they are both the same)

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The fact that either have an almost exclusively Belgian manufactured gun at all is weird already.

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This is a bolt action shotgun though?

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While i was being sarcastic i also mistook the post i did not know that… would genuinely be interesting

Yeah… looking and paying attention for more than a second i would have seen the bolt.

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Finding a shotgun with a magazine is harder than you think
Compared to any other type there are dozens of times as many smgs, mgs, rifles, pistols, revolvers
The only thing more rare are anti tank rocket launchers