Thirty years ago there was a fellow at one of the gun clubs I used to belong to and he owned a Francotte 16 not sure of grade etc . But he brought it to the club one Wednesday night for me to see and shoot , at that time I was shooting registered skeet or trap somewhere every weekend practically. Anyway I shot two rounds of skeet low gun with that Francotte using my handloads and broke 49x50 I offered a box or two for him to shoot it but he declined at which point I offered him a grand for the gun , it was in need of a lot of TLC but woulda made an almost perfect grouse gun or atleast that was my opinion . I had no idea what the gun was worth and neither did he but he turned down my offer . I always thought it was a Sidelock but it very well may of just had side plates I dunno either way for sure .
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