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The Fabarm Elos N2 Allsport — One Gun To Rule Them All

Picture the moment you decide to take up clay target shooting. You walk into the gun shop, and the question you ask is the most natural one in the world: “I just want one gun that can do everything.” One gun for skeet on a Saturday, for a sporting layout the next weekend, for Down-The-Line trap when the club runs it. One gun to learn on, to improve with, and to keep.

It is a fair question, and most gun shops give a fair answer. You can shoot trap with a sporter, they will say — but you can’t shoot sporting with a trap gun — so buy the sporter, it is the more versatile of the two. And that is not wrong. But it is still a compromise dressed up as a solution. A sporter shoots flat, and gives a rising trap target less than it wants; a dedicated trap gun shoots high and feels heavy and deliberate on a fast skeet pair. Whichever gun you choose, there is a discipline you are shooting with the wrong tool — and quietly accepting it.

The Fabarm Elos N2 Allsport refuses that compromise. It is the one over-under genuinely built to do it all — because its top rib is interchangeable, and it ships with two. A 50:50 rib for skeet and sporting clays, and a 65:35 rib for the rising targets of DTL and trench. Both ribs, in the case, included. Underneath sit Tribore HP barrels, a forged-steel action, an adjustable-comb stock and a real-walnut TriWood finish — the pedigree of guns costing far more.

It is made in Brescia by Fabarm, one of Italy’s finest gunmakers, and at Gun Bar it is in stock now — though rarely for long. From $4,199, in 30″ or 32″ and in right or left hand, the Allsport is the best possible start in clay target shooting, and a gun you will not outgrow. Call the team, and let’s set yours up.

The One Gun That Genuinely Does It All

For decades the all-rounder was a polite fiction. The Allsport makes it real.

Every clay shooter meets this conversation. Maybe you are brand new and finally buying your own gun instead of borrowing one. Maybe you have shot a while and want to commit. Either way the advice you are given is well-meant, and it always carries a hedge: buy a sporter, it is the most versatile — or — buy a trap gun, it will teach you discipline. Both answers quietly admit the same thing: one gun cannot really cover every discipline, so pick the compromise you can live with.

Understand why that compromise exists and the Allsport suddenly makes complete sense. The single biggest difference between a trap gun and a sporter is where the gun shoots — its point of impact. A trap gun is built to shoot high, because trap targets rise away from you and you hold under them. A sporter is built flatter, because sporting targets cross, drop and quarter and you want the pattern centred on exactly what you see. And the part of the gun that governs point of impact more than any other is the rib.

So the trap-versus-sporter choice has always really been a choice about a rib that, on every other gun, is welded on for life. The Allsport is the gun that unwelds it. It is one forged-steel over-under, with one set of Tribore HP barrels — and a top rib you lift off and swap in about a minute. Fit the 50:50 rib and you have a true sporter. Fit the 65:35 rib and the very same gun is a true trap gun. Not a sporter pretending; not a trap gun making do.

That is what “one gun to rule them all” means here, and we mean it literally. Whatever your club runs this weekend — skeet, sporting, DTL, trench — you bring the Allsport, fit the rib for the discipline, and you step to the stand with the right gun. Not the closest compromise you could afford. The pages that follow are the story of how Fabarm pulled that off — and why it costs so much less than it should.

Two Ribs, One Gun — Set It For The Discipline

Most shotguns are born a sporter or a trap gun and stay that way for life. The Allsport changes its mind whenever you do.

Start with what the rib does for your eye. The Allsport is topped with a tapered rib — 10mm at the breech, narrowing to 8mm at the muzzle. Bring the gun up and the sight picture is clean, raised and narrowing toward the target, the picture a clay shooter wants. But the tapered shape is only half the story. The real story is what you can do with the rib that you cannot do on almost any other gun: take it off, and fit a different one.

What a rib truly governs is point of impact — POI — where the pattern prints relative to the bead. On the Allsport the rib is not fixed for the life of the gun. It is a removable, interchangeable component — and here is the part worth reading twice: the gun comes with two of them.

The 50:50 rib. Half the pattern above the bead, half below — a flat-shooting gun. This is what you want for skeet and sporting clays, where targets cross, drop, quarter and loop in every direction and you want the pattern centred on exactly what you are looking at. Fit the 50:50 rib and the Allsport is a sporter — not a near-enough substitute, the real thing.

The 65:35 rib. Sixty-five percent of the pattern above the bead, thirty-five below — a raised point of impact. That is built for rising targets: it lets you keep the bird in clear, clean sight just above the bead and still centre the pattern squarely on it. That makes the 65:35 close to ideal for DTL — Down-The-Line — the staple discipline of Australian clay shooting, and for trench. Fit the 65:35 rib and the same gun is now, genuinely, a trap gun.

And — this is the heart of it — both ribs come with the gun. You are not buying an accessory later. You are not picking one rib at the counter and wishing for the other on the drive home. One Allsport, one fitted case, two ribs — one 50:50 and one 65:35 — and a swap that takes about a minute on the bench. The gun you carry to the club is, depending on which rib is fitted, whichever gun that day’s discipline asks for.

Tribore HP — Italian Barrels That Punch Above The Price

At this price you expect a decent gun. You do not expect this barrel.

Fabarm is, before it is anything else, a barrel-maker — and it has been one in Brescia, the historic heart of Italian gunmaking, since 1900. How good? The proof is a fact from inside the trade. Caesar Guerini, the prestige marque Fabarm shares ownership with, builds guns that sell for many times the price of an Allsport — and when Caesar Guerini needs barrels, it does not make its own. It has Fabarm make them. The barrel on this gun shares its bloodline with barrels fitted to guns costing five figures.

It begins with how the tubes are made. Fabarm deep-drills every barrel from a solid bar of chrome-molybdenum steel — the most demanding and most expensive way to make a gun tube, and the best. Fabarm’s two largest competitors reserve deep drilling for their custom-shop flagships only. Fabarm uses it on every gun it builds — this Allsport included.

Then there is the bore: Tribore HP. Sporting and trap shooters chase a clean, even pattern, and the usual route to one is an over-bored barrel — widen the bore, cut the friction, lift the distribution. But over-boring quietly costs you penetration: the same gas now fills a larger volume, pressure falls, and the shot leaves slower. A prettier pattern bought with a weaker hit. Tribore HP refuses that trade. The barrel runs an over-bored section at 18.70mm for low friction and a clean pattern — then, ahead of it, a long 205mm conical section that gently narrows the bore back to 18.40mm. Squeeze a moving column of gas into a narrowing space and, by the Venturi principle, it accelerates — the same reason pinching a garden hose makes the water leap. That taper hands the shot its speed, and its penetration, straight back. You keep the even pattern of an over-bored barrel and give up nothing on the hit.

An extra-long forcing cone eases the shot column on its way and softens the recoil into your shoulder — and that detail deserves a final word. Beretta, nobody’s idea of a budget house, reserves its long-forcing-cone Steelium Pro barrels for the flagship DT11, a gun that costs a small fortune. Fabarm builds the same long-forcing-cone principle into every Tribore HP barrel as standard. On a gun starting at $4,199, that is genuinely remarkable.

Tested To 1630 Bar — And Cleared For Steel

Two things most gun makers cannot say. Fabarm says both.

Every Italian shotgun is proof-tested by law — pressure-tested for safety — at the C.I.P. proof house in Gardone Val Trompia, to 1320 bar. Fabarm volunteers for far more. It is the only maker to have agreed an exclusive additional protocol with that proof house: every Fabarm barrel is also tested to 1630 bar, a deliberate overpressure well beyond the legal requirement — and every gun, your Allsport included, leaves the factory with its own 1630 bar certificate. You are not asked to take a maker’s word that the barrels are strong. You are handed the certificate.

That strength buys a benefit most shooters have never been offered. Almost every other manufacturer restricts high-performance steel shot to choke constrictions no tighter than Modified; tighter chokes are stamped do not use for steel shot. The Allsport does not share that ceiling. Its Exis HP chokes are cleared by Fabarm for high-performance steel shot right through to Long (0.7) and Xtreme (0.9) — useful for any shooter who ever shoots where steel is required.

It is achieved by engineering, not bravado: the Exis HP 12-gauge choke tube is made longer — 92mm — and its conical section is replaced with a hyperbolic curved profile, so the shot column is squeezed gently and progressively, never against a hard edge. On Fabarm’s own published data, where a rival barrel with a Modified choke prints around 76% of its pattern in the target, a Tribore HP barrel with the Xtreme choke prints 89%. Always use each choke as Fabarm marks it — and the Gun Bar team can help you set up for steel.

An Adjustable Stock, So The Gun Learns You

A clay gun that does not fit cannot be shot well — and fit is the fastest way for a developing shooter to improve.

The single biggest thing holding a developing clay shooter back is rarely talent. It is a gun that does not fit. If the comb sits too low you shoot under the bird; too high and you float over it; and you spend a whole season fighting the gun instead of reading the target. The Allsport removes that obstacle from the very first day.

It is built on a pistol-grip stock with an adjustable comb. Raise it, lower it, move it until the gun puts the pattern exactly where your eye looks — then lock it there. With a 377mm length of pull and measured drop at comb and heel, the Allsport comes to the shoulder the same way every single time. And the same mount, every time, is the quiet foundation a good score is built upon.

The fore-end is a semi-beavertail — a fuller, hand-filling shape that gives your leading hand a proper, confident, repeatable grip on the gun. A slim fore-end gives the front hand too little to hold; the semi-beavertail gives it real control, and a controlled front hand is a smoother, more consistent swing through a long string of targets.

The Racing trigger is adjustable and selective — choose your barrel, and enjoy a crisp, clean break with no creep and no surprise. It is the kind of trigger a developing shooter quickly learns to trust, and then stops noticing, which is the highest thing a trigger can do. A gun set to fit you, with a trigger you forget about, is a gun you improve on fast.

TriWood — Real Walnut, Made Tougher And More Beautiful

Some shooters hear “TriWood” and assume vinyl. They could not be more wrong.

The Allsport is stocked in walnut, finished in Fabarm’s TriWood. And the first thing to clear up is what TriWood is not. It is not a vinyl wrap. It is not a synthetic shell. It is not a sticker or a film laid over the timber. The stock beneath the finish is real walnut — and TriWood is a process applied to that wood, not a substitute for it.

Fabarm introduced TriWood in 2002 as a hi-tech process with two jobs: to improve the walnut’s grain, and to guarantee a perfect waterproof protection. The quality of the underlying walnut still matters enormously — its contrast, its grade, its natural figure — because the craft of TriWood is the mix between the wood’s original grain and the additional grain the process brings up. Done well, the result celebrates the timber rather than hiding it. Every TriWood stock is different, because every piece of walnut is different.

In Fabarm’s own words, TriWood is not a film fixed onto the walnut; it is a process to deposit ink onto the wood itself. The finished stock is then protected by a tough, scratch-resistant, semi-gloss acrylic varnish. What you hold has the warmth and the feel of wood — because it is wood — with a depth of grain and a resilience against weather, handling and the knocks of club life that a plain oiled stock simply cannot match.

For a gun that will be shot in every season, carried to every club, and is meant to take a shooter from a first lesson to a club championship, that toughness is precisely the point. TriWood is walnut that looks its best and shrugs off the years. Read Fabarm’s own account of the TriWood process →

The Chokes Question — Factory Exis HP, Or Teague Precision?

Your Allsport arrives with five good chokes. There is still a smart upgrade to know about.

Every Allsport comes with five Exis HP extended chokes — Cylinder, Short, Medium, Long and Xtreme — genuinely good chokes, and enough to shoot the gun well across every discipline straight from the case.

But here is a truth worth knowing before you buy. A gun maker’s real craft is the action and the barrels — the lock-up, the bore, the balance — and at that, Fabarm is exceptional. Choke-making is a different specialism entirely. For Teague Precision Chokes, choke-making is not one component among many: it is the whole craft, refined over decades to a standard a factory choke is simply not built to chase.

Teague are renowned for precision thin-wall chokes — machined to exacting tolerances, delivering consistent, repeatable patterns shot after shot. Fit a set of Teague chokes to the Tribore HP barrels of an Allsport and you have the best of both worlds: Fabarm’s barrel pedigree, and a choke specialist’s lifetime of doing one thing supremely well.

The smart moment to make that call is now, at the point of purchase — have your Allsport and a matched set of Teague Precision Chokes leave together, set up as one package. Speak to the Gun Bar team about specifying Teague chokes with your order.

Don’t Settle For A Budget Import

At this price the temptation is to buy down. The Allsport is the reason not to.

There is a real temptation, when you are starting out, to spend as little as possible — to pick up a budget over-under built down to a price, tell yourself it will do for now, and promise to upgrade later. It is an understandable instinct. It is also, almost always, a false economy.

A gun built to hit the lowest possible number shows it where it counts: a barrel made the cheap way, an action that works loose, a stock that fights you, a trigger you never quite trust, a finish that tires within a season or two. You spend that season learning the gun’s faults instead of your own — then sell it at a loss and buy the gun you should have bought in the first place.

The Allsport sits in roughly the same price bracket as those entry-level imports — and it is emphatically not one of them. It is a Fabarm: deep-drilled Tribore HP barrels with a Caesar Guerini bloodline, a forged-steel action, an adjustable stock in a tough TriWood walnut finish, proof to 1630 bar, and two interchangeable ribs in the case. It is one of Italy’s finest gunmakers’ answer to the all-round shooter — priced to be bought first, not second.

That is what “punching above its weight” actually means. The Allsport hands a new or improving shooter the genuine article — properly engineered, Italian-made, built to last from a first lesson to a club championship — at a price that, almost everywhere else, buys a compromise. Buy well once, and you are not shopping for the same gun again in two years.

One Gun, Every Discipline

Real competition engineering, in the most versatile gun on the rack.

30-Inch Or 32-Inch — Right Or Left Hand

Four configurations, one gun. Pick the barrel length and the hand — pricing varies a little by configuration, and the team can help if you are unsure.

Fabarm Elos N2 Allsport — Full Specifications

The complete specification for the Elos N2 Allsport, as published by Fabarm. The 30″ and 32″ share one platform — they differ only in barrel length and the handling character that follows from it.

One Gun, Every Stand You’ll Shoot

Fit the rib for the day, and the Allsport is exactly the gun the discipline asks for.

In Stock Now — But Rarely For Long

A gun this versatile does not gather dust on the rack.

Here is a quiet truth about the Allsport: a single over-under that genuinely covers skeet, sporting, DTL and trench is exactly the gun a huge share of clay shooters actually want. So it tends to move quickly. It is typically in demand, and stock comes and goes through the year.

Right now, the good news: Gun Bar has the Allsport in stock — in 30″ and 32″, right hand and left. That is not always the case, and it is the reason to act while it is true. There is no allocation queue to join today; there is a gun ready to be set up and sent to you.

The best move is simple. Order online to secure yours — or, better still, call the Gun Bar team first. Tell them the disciplines you shoot, your build and your experience, and they will help you choose barrel length, hand and rib setup, and talk through whether a Teague choke upgrade is worth it for you. Real advice from real shooters, before you buy.

One Family Of Italian Shotguns

If the Allsport is the all-rounder, Fabarm builds the specialists too.

Gun Bar stocks the wider Fabarm family across hunting and competition. Call the team on 1800 GUNBAR to talk through the range and find the right Italian shotgun for the shooting you do.

Fabarm Elos N2 Allsport — Common Questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most. Anything not covered? Call the team on 1800 GUNBAR.