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Fausti 28-bore side-by-side shotgun review

Fausti 28-bore side-by-side shotgun review: Part of the Fausti Boutique custom-built range, this featherweight shotgun with a set of .410 barrels, is an excellent, light 28-bore.

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Time Well Spent
Time Well Spent December 15, 2011

Fausti 28-bore shotgun.
The test gun is a particularly elegant little side-by-side created by the Fausti sisters and their team of gunsmiths in Brescia.

It?s a special gun, a product of their custom shop.

The Fausti story concerns three sisters who inherited a gun factory and determined to inject a bit of style and, let?s be frank, sex appeal, into the concern.

Thus far, only the company?s more pedestrian models have been imported into the UK.

Good though some of these are, I have one of its 12-bore side-by-sides that has done sterling service, they are nothing like the elegant, 5lb 3oz, 28-bore, which comes with an extra set of .410 barrels.

First impressions are excellent. I like the gun because it is typical of the feisty sisters themselves.

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They can (and do) make guns that match traditional British preferences. But this one is made as they like, with a form of decoration to their taste. 
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It was originally designed as a display piece for exhibitions and similar. You wouldn?t call it ?girlie? but it has refined quality and achieves an aesthetic harmony with its good wood, and sumptuous, tight-scroll engraving with delicate gold highlights. 
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On a bigger gun this might be over the top but as an example of the fabulous Faustis? oeuvre, it?s near perfect. 
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Your girlfriend might want one just like it, but she might not get it once you?ve had a go.
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More prosaically, I watched the prototype of this new Fausti action develop some years ago ? the firm has always made a significant number of side-by-sides as well as over-unders (total production is 8,000-odd guns a year, 20% of them side-by-side). 
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The 28-bore action was a new project and one into which the sisters put a great deal of passion. 
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It started life with 28in .410 barrels on the new 28/.410 action. 
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