RIA Auction 97 Trench Gun

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  • Tom Doniphon
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 526

    #1

    RIA Auction 97 Trench Gun

    Here's another one with some serious issues. And someone bid a lot of money for it.

    RIA 978 Trench Gun: https://www.rockislandauction.com/de...shotgun#detail
  • Chaz
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 765

    #2
    The cartouche? The cannons look fake to me, and I'm not an expert in these things...just a sucker whose fallen for a couple of fakes in years past.

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    • scosgt
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2011
      • 673

      #3
      Total fake. Serial way too low. adapter modern repro. markings fake.

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      • scosgt
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2011
        • 673

        #4
        Also the barrel should extend out to the lug. Might be a m12 mag tube.

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        • SPEEDGUNNER
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2009
          • 729

          #5
          Past experience has told me that Rock Island offers no guarantee as to description vs. the actual item. So it is imperative that a potential bidder read the description. The description for this shotgun tells you exactly what it is, without telling you what it isn't, which is a real trench. Here is an excerpt from their "Terms and Conditions" as to guarantee:

          "RIAC does not guarantee or make warranties on any lot sold. The bold headline of the description is the only written statement RIAC will guarantee as correct. "
          "There's a race of men that don't fit in,
          A race that can't stay still;
          So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
          And they roam the world at will." - Robert Service

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          • scosgt
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2011
            • 673

            #6
            Someone took a $5K bath.

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