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The Fabarm Infinite RS Grade IV — The Same Side-By-Side That Wins, Dressed By The Bottega

When we wrote the page for the standard Fabarm Infinite RS, the story was the engineering — the Tribore HP barrels, the four-lug lock-up, the Quick Release Rib, the small revolution of a side-by-side built without apology to compete and win on the sporting clays line. All of it remains exactly true of the gun on this page. Every shooting feature, every mechanical detail, every reason the Infinite RS is a genuine target gun — the Grade IV inherits all of it, unchanged.

What it adds is the art.

Welcome to the all-new Fabarm Infinite RS Grade IV — the same Infinite RS, finished in Fabarm’s Bottega workshop with hand-engraved bright-finished sideplates, upgraded Grade IV walnut, and a gold “Grade IV” cartouche on the bottom plate. It is the Infinite RS for the shooter who wants the championship gun and the cabinet piece in one — the gun that wins on Sunday and that you cannot quite stop looking at all week.

Pre-orders are open now at Gun Bar. Offered in 30″ or 32″, by allocation — first orders, first guns. First-shipment pricing $11,999. Call the team to lock in your place.

Same Engineering, Dressed By Hand

In Italian gunmaking, “grade” describes the level of dress — the wood and the engraving. Grade IV is Fabarm’s premium dress for the Infinite RS.

A Grade IV is not a different gun. It is the same gun — the same forged-steel four-lug action, the same Tribore HP deep-drilled barrels, the same Quick Release Rib, the same Racing trigger, the same 1630 bar proof certificate — lifted up out of the standard line and finished, by hand, in Fabarm’s Bottega workshop. Everything that makes the Infinite RS shoot beautifully is identical. Everything that makes it look beautiful is taken several quiet steps further.

Three things change, and they are the three things that have always separated a standard production gun from a graded one. The action plates are hand-engraved, with hunting scenes and foliate scrollwork carried across both sideplates and the bottom plate. The walnut is upgraded to Grade IV — selected for figure, contrast and character, and hand-oiled. And a gold “Grade IV” cartouche sits on the bottom plate, the maker’s quiet signature that this gun came out of the Bottega rather than the production line.

That is the whole proposition. If you want the entire mechanical and shooting story of the Infinite RS — the Tribore HP barrel, the deep-drilling, the Caesar Guerini bloodline, the QRR, the 1630 bar steel-shot certification — it is told in full on the standard Infinite RS page. This page is for the shooter who has already decided they want an Infinite RS, and is now choosing how it should be dressed.

Hand-Engraved Bright-Finished Action — A Hunting Scene You Can Hold

The most visible upgrade, and the one your eye keeps returning to.

Where the standard Infinite RS wears a clean black-satin action, the Grade IV wears a bright-finished action — polished to let the engraving show — and that engraving runs across both sideplates and the bottom plate. The motif is unmistakably a sporting one: flying game birds — pheasants on the wing, with hunting dogs in cover — framed by deep foliate scrollwork that runs the length of the action. A gold Fabarm cartouche sits centred on the sidewall; a small gold trigger sets it off.

The work is done by hand in the Bottega — the small specialist atelier within Fabarm where the engraved and graded guns are finished. The difference between hand engraving and laser or machine engraving is the difference between a painting and a print: depth, variation, the small irregularities and the human touch that no machine reproduces. You feel it under the thumb when you handle the gun, and you see it in the way light moves across the work.

There is no functional difference between the standard Infinite RS action and the Grade IV one — the same forged steel, the same four-lug lock-up, the same internals. The Grade IV simply takes the surface of the same action and turns it into something to look at as well as something to shoot.

Upgraded Walnut, Hand-Oiled — The Wood Picked For The Gun

A graded gun gets a graded blank. The Grade IV gets Grade IV.

Every Fabarm stock is honest walnut. The difference between grades is which walnut. Standard production stocks come from good, sound, working-grade walnut blanks — entirely respectable, the wood a great target gun wants. Grade IV blanks are selected from a higher pile altogether: blanks with the figure, the contrast, the colour and the deep grain that turn a stock from a functional piece of timber into a piece of furniture you would not mind on the mantelpiece.

It is the same Monte Carlo profile as the standard Infinite RS — same adjustable comb, same 377mm length of pull, same drop dimensions, same hand-filling semi-beavertail fore-end. The geometry that makes the Infinite RS fit a clay shooter is unchanged. What is different is the wood itself, and the way the same hand-oiled finish reads on it — warmer, deeper, livelier, with figure that catches the light along the comb and through the grip.

Because walnut is a natural material and no two blanks are identical, every Grade IV is, in the small ways that matter, a one-off. Two Grade IV guns ordered on the same day will share every dimension and every specification, and have stocks that are recognisably different in figure and contrast. That is the point of buying a graded gun.

A Gold Cartouche, A Maker’s Mark, A Quiet Signature

Turn the gun over and you will find the Grade IV’s real signature.

Open the gun, look beneath the action, and the maker has signed the work. On the bottom plate — itself engraved with the same scroll and ivy-leaf motif as the sideplates — sits a small gold cartouche, on a scrolled banner, with two simple words: Grade IV. Below it, on the trigger guard, the workshop’s inscription: Bottega — Made In Italy.

The Bottega — the Italian word means “workshop” in the artisanal sense, the place where things are made by hand — is Fabarm’s specialist atelier within the Brescia factory. Standard production guns are built on the main line, to a consistent specification. Graded guns come off the line, go to the Bottega, and have their wood, their engraving and their finishing done by hand, by people whose job is exactly that. The cartouche on the bottom plate is the workshop saying: we made this one.

It is a small, quiet signature in a place you only see when you take the gun apart, and it is precisely the kind of detail a serious owner notices and a serious gunmaker insists on. The whole gun is the Bottega’s answer to the question of how an Infinite RS should be finished when finish is the point.

Every Reason The Infinite RS Wins — All Of It, Still Here

The Grade IV inherits the full mechanical story of the Infinite RS. Here is the short version.

Tribore HP barrels, deep-drilled from solid chrome-molybdenum steel, with the Caesar Guerini barrel bloodline behind them. A Venturi-style bore that delivers an over-bored barrel’s clean even pattern without giving up the penetration. An extra-long forcing cone — the same principle Beretta reserves for the flagship DT11 — standard.

A forged-steel four-lug locking action, built for the round counts a serious competitor puts through a gun. Barrels proof-tested to 1630 bar — well beyond the C.I.P. legal standard of 1320 bar — with a certificate supplied. Exis HP chokes cleared by Fabarm for high-performance steel shot right through to Long and Xtreme, where almost every rival stops at Modified.

A 10–8mm tapered Quick Release Rib — the same QRR fitted to the standard Infinite RS — supplied with the 50:50 POI rib as the gun’s default sporting setting. The 65:35 QRR remains in development for the Infinite RS line and will be offered as an option when released. A Monte Carlo stock with an adjustable comb, a hand-filling semi-beavertail fore-end, and an adjustable, selective Racing trigger.

Every one of those features — the engineering, the proof, the barrel pedigree, the QRR, the chokes — is the same on the Grade IV as on the standard Infinite RS. If any of them deserve more than a paragraph for you, the full long-form story sits on the standard product page, and we will not repeat it here.

What The Bottega Adds, What The Infinite RS Brings

Three Grade IV upgrades; three core Infinite RS features. One gun.

30-Inch Or 32-Inch — Pick Your Swing

Same gun, same Bottega finish — the only choice is the character of the swing.

Fabarm Infinite RS Grade IV — Full Specifications

The complete specification for the Bottega-finished Grade IV. Every mechanical row is shared with the standard Infinite RS; the Grade IV-specific rows are highlighted.

Pre-Order Now — By Allocation, Limited Quantities

The Grade IV is a graded gun made by hand. Numbers to Australia are limited; the queue is the price.

The Fabarm Infinite RS Grade IV is offered to the Australian market by allocation, in strictly limited numbers. Each gun is hand-finished in the Bottega — the engraving, the wood selection, the final fitting — and the production rate of a graded gun is, properly, not the production rate of a standard line gun. There are only so many Grade IV guns Fabarm makes; there are only so many that come to Australia.

The mechanism for securing one is simple. You place your pre-order through Gun Bar; we add your name to the allocation queue; as Fabarm ships, guns are released in order. First orders, first guns. Once the current allocation is committed, the queue rolls into the next.

First-shipment pre-order pricing is $11,999 — the figure for guns landing on the first Australian allocation. Subsequent shipments will be priced as Fabarm and the importer set them at the time, and a later order will not always carry the same number. Call the Gun Bar team on 1800 GUNBAR to confirm pricing for your configuration and put your name on the list.

One Family Of Italian Shotguns

The Grade IV is the dressed-up flagship. The Fabarm range underneath covers every clay discipline.

Before You Look Away, Just Look

Specifications close a sale. Specifications, on their own, never made anyone reach for the phone.

We have made the technical case — the barrel pedigree, the QRR, the Bottega-engraved sideplates, the Grade IV walnut, the first-shipment price. Before the questions, then, here is the gun. Stand with it for a moment.

Look at the slim, honest lines of a side-by-side that has nothing in the world to apologise for. The depth and figure of walnut chosen from the top of the pile, hand-oiled until the grain reads as warm as old amber. The bright Bottega-finished action, its sideplates carrying scrollwork and game-bird scenes that took the engraver the hours most makers will not spend. The small gold trigger; the gold cartouche underneath, a workshop’s quiet boast. A gun balanced as if it already knows exactly what it is.

This is a gun designed, without apology, to be loved. And the shooter who walks past it tonight, sleeps on the decision, and walks back next week to find the queue closed will remember it. Some objects you handle a few times in a life and never quite shake. If you can already feel the weight of it across your palms, if your eye has not stopped tracking the figure in that stock, if “by allocation, first-shipment $11,999” reads less like a price tag and more like the cost of admission to something genuinely rare — you already have your answer.

Fabarm Infinite RS Grade IV — Common Questions

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