barrel length 70 cm (27,5"), stock length 37 cm (15"), total length 113 cm (44,5"), choke 1/2 & 3/4 (M &IM), weight 2,9 kg, year of manufacture 1978, Italian proof, condition 2-3
Demibloc barrels engraved with "Flli Piotti Gardone VT" as well as " ACCIAIO SIAU UM" for the Società Italiana Acciai Utensili as supplier of the high quality barrel steel, engine-turned rib, ejectors, light-coloured base, engraving of flower bouquets surrounded by fine arabesques together with decorated fences - signed Piotti for an engraving from his own company, double underlugs, bar-action sidelocks, disc-set strikers, sliding tang safety, mechanical non-selective filed trigger, evenly grained walnut stock, fine checkering, straight grip, plastic butt plate, half beavertail fore-end with Anson push-rod.
The brothers Faustino and Araldo Piotti were born gunsmiths by their father, who was a gunsmith by profession. After gaining experience with Fabio Zanotti, they founded their own company in 1961. The two knew the high demand for high-quality hunting and sporting guns at that time and served these markets with success. The highlight here was the 1972 gold medal at the Munich Olympics in the skeet competition for the German Konrad Wirnhier. Like so many prominent gun manufacturers, Armi F.lli Piotti is based in Gardone Val Trompia, not far north of Brescia. Following the zeitgeist of the coming decades, the company finally focused on the production of high-quality shotguns and rifles. Technically, the company uses the best systems (Holland&Holland, Boss, etc.) and focuses on the best realization of qualitative workmanship up to the finest engravings. Today, as in the past, F.lli Piotti is run as a family business by the three brothers Fabio, Sergio and Rudi.

Category: Shotguns