Help me identify this gun

[dovehunter]

I can I.D. it for you but only because I have one and someone helped I.D. mine for me. It is a Lefaucheux. Apparently other companies - Husqvarna for one - copied this pattern, but most are referred to as either a Lefaucheux or Lefaucheux pattern. Lefaucheux was a Belgian company. You can tell if yours is actually a Belgian Lefaucheux by the proofmarks. If any of them are an oval with a crown atop it it's the Belgian gun. It may be a Husqvarna if it doesn't have the Belgian proofmarks I described. I've never seen the Swedish proofmarks so I don't know what they look like.

My gun is a 16 ga. It is a little fancier than yours as it has the European style cheekpiece on the left side and the trigger guard is made so as to give the feel and appearance of a pistol grip stock. Otherwise it looks identical to yours.

According to my gunsmith (and the one who I.D.'d the gun for me) since my gun has "Englisher Stahl" written on both barrels it is safe to shoot with light modern smokeless powdwer loads. My gun also had short chambers so, if you want to shoot yours, you will want to get that checked out. My gunsmith said it was okay to ream out the chambers to 2-3/4" so I had mine done.

If you'd like I can e-mail you a scan of a page from an old gun book showing this gun if you'll post your e-mail address. This was sent to me by the guy (from another board) who I.D.'d my gun for me.

This gun is actually a pretty good shooter if you can get used to (what I think is) a wierd way of opening the gun and seeing those rabbit ears when looking down the barrels.