Skb m3

[jirushi]

I was in Japan to do research for my Sharp book.
Thanks to my friends Mr. Shimizu and Mr. Iwata, it was a great week.
We visited the old Sharp factory site, the later Sharp Chiba site, and various gun shops.
At Sakagami gun shop, I spotted this SKB M3. The gun shop is across the road from the SKB factory, which closed around 2008.
It was interesting to walk inside the building; gun parts and empty shotgun cartridges all over the place.

The SKB seems to be a BSA Standard Pattern copy. I bought it, and gave it to Mr. Shimizu as a thank you for all his work for my book (over the last 5 years).
It has a peep sight, and scope rails on top of the trigger block. Looks to be well made, but my experience with Japanese prewar BSA copies is that the tap area is difficult to make as well as the original from Birmingham.

Cheers, Louis