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Fausti Class Round Body
Break action · 20 Gauge · introduced 2011
Also known as Fausti Class RD, Fausti Class Round Action
About the Fausti Class Round Body
The Fausti Class Round Body is the rounded-receiver edition of the Italian over/under Class field shotgun, built by the family-owned Fausti firm of Brescia. It offers the same break-action over/under platform as the standard Class but with a softly rounded, slimmed boxlock-style receiver, available only in 20 gauge with either an engraved coin-finish or a case-hardened receiver. It feeds from stacked over/under barrels chambered for 3-inch shells, uses a mechanical single-selective trigger with automatic ejectors, and ships with interchangeable choke tubes set into oil-finished walnut stocks with a Prince of Wales grip.
Fausti Stefano was founded in 1948 by Stefano Fausti in the Val Trompia gunmaking district near Brescia, and is today run by his three daughters, earning the firm its nickname as the company of the Fausti sisters.
Fausti Class Round Body specifications
General
- Type
- Shotgun
- Action
- Break action
- Firing mechanism
- Hammer-fired
- Trigger
- Single selective
- Trigger pull
- 2.4 kg (5.4 lb)
- Calibres
- 20 Gauge
- Magazine capacity
- 2 rounds
- Magazine
- Internal
Dimensions
- Barrel length
- 711 mm (28.0 in)
- Overall length
- 1156 mm (45.5 in)
- Weight (empty)
- 2.83 kg (6.25 lb)
Barrel
- Rifling
- Smoothbore
Materials
- Barrel
- Steel
- Receiver / frame
- Steel
- Stock
- Walnut
- Finish
- coin_finish_or_case_hardened
Performance
- Muzzle velocity (typical)
- 380 m/s (1247 fps)
- Effective range
- 40 m
History
- Introduced
- 2011
- Production status
- In production
- Country of origin
- IT
- Designer
- Fausti Stefano Srl
Features
- Over under barrels
- Rounded receiver
- Single selective trigger
- Automatic ejectors
- Interchangeable choke tubes
- Prince of wales grip
- Oil finished walnut stock
- Single bead sight
- Three inch chamber
Safety
- Automatic tang safety
Round-body (rounded-action) variant of the Fausti Class, offered as a 20-gauge only at a list price around USD 4,199. Reference barrel length 28 inches (711 mm); 26-inch and 30-inch barrels also offered. Weight approximate at about 6 lbs 4 oz for the 28-inch configuration. Bore is slightly overbored (~.621 in). Tang-mounted automatic safety; supplied with five choke tubes.
This is a variant of the Fausti Class.
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