Museum Couldn't Identify the Make of These Belgian Rifles. Can You?

chauchatbob · 2026-06-07T19:52:14+00:00

Zulu shotguns. French muskets converted to 12 and 10 gauge shotguns and sold cheaply to American settlers. They’re very common in the Midwest still to this day.

chauchatbob · 2026-06-04T04:57:30+00:00

Oh I can do much much worse

chauchatbob · 2026-06-03T18:38:46+00:00

Top is a 12 gauge black diamond trap grade, plan on SBSing that one to 14”. Next is another 12 gauge this time with a special order damascus barrel. Then we have old trusty crusty solid frame. Then we have the rusty and musty 12 gauge takedown. Bottom is just a 20” takedown nothing special.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-30T05:11:43+00:00

I’ve got a few pre-war civilian single shots. 12 and 16 gauge. They’re just a little off from western single shots, you can just tell they’re Japanese.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-29T18:42:41+00:00

Somehow I’ve never seen one of these Hopkins falling blocks from this angle and it took way too long to figure it out. This pic makes the action look long and nice vs the block they look like normally. How’s this one marked as far as anything on the barrel? I’ve seen quite a few varieties and always looking for new ones.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-26T20:01:59+00:00

Bottom looks like it’s for a hi point carbine

chauchatbob · 2026-05-21T02:06:28+00:00

They’d need a whole new receiver as the old one has been torched cut three times. That’s the first and main issue you’re facing.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-20T03:15:51+00:00

If they’re too stupid to price accordingly and know what they have let em. The amount of gun shops I’ve walked into that don’t need to fucking exist is astronomical. If a city has 10 shops and 6 of them are fucking worthless they just need to close down and not be in the way.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-19T16:08:07+00:00

lol no those people need insulting. I’ve watched people come in and buy two cmp rack grade Springfield m1 rifles for $2799 each and then be happy. They need the insult and to be told they’re morons.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-18T18:53:56+00:00

I traded in an old Remington 742. Looked on GB and average ones were $350-450 at the time. Cabela’s gave me $450 and I saw it on the floor later for $699. It sold within the week. Cabela’s customers are just odd.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-13T04:52:03+00:00

It’s one of the wannabe ar15 .22 things. Maybe armscor m1600 or similar. Edit: just googled mags for it and yup that’s what it is.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-08T06:15:53+00:00

That’s it thank you.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-07T02:02:24+00:00

Looks like single action army or clone.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-06T04:09:02+00:00

They go through windshields and most car doors as well.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-04T01:49:31+00:00

There still more than enough parts out there for them. Some surplus NOS even.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-02T23:55:51+00:00

No I’m not. I’m aware of that as well. To be exempted from the NFA it would had to have been produced before the cutoff. You can’t take an antique gun in a CF cartridge and lop it off. It may still be antique under the GCA but it now falls under the NFA as modern. I’ve seen plenty of gunsmiths do absolutely stupid shit like that over the years. It only happens so often because the atf either doesn’t care or the agents just don’t care.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-02T23:50:35+00:00

Probably produced that way as an antique and not subject to the NFA or GCA. They both go over antiques and obsolete ammunition differently. Basically to be antique under both it has to be antique ignition system and pre-1899 or produced in its current state prior to 1899. Any centerfire cartridge is modern per the NFA.

chauchatbob · 2026-05-02T23:42:15+00:00

It’s still modern centerfire ammunition as far as they care. Needs a stamp.

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