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The Fabarm Infinite RS — The Side-By-Side You Always Wanted, Finally Built To Win

Be honest with yourself for a moment. Underneath the practical business of breaking targets, you have always wanted a side-by-side. The slim elegance of it. The way two barrels laid side by side trace a line a hundred years of gunmaking would recognise. The quiet sense, every time you take one down from the rack, that you are holding something with a soul.

And every time, practicality talked you out of it. A side-by-side was the gun for the field, for tradition, for the cabinet — never for the competition line, where scores are kept and nothing is forgiven. So you wanted one, and you bought the over-under instead.

The Fabarm Infinite RS is the gun that ends that quiet compromise. It is a side-by-side built — genuinely, seriously, without a single apology — to compete. Tribore HP barrels — deep-drilled, proof-tested to 1630 bar, and carrying the long forcing cones of guns costing far more. A Quick Release Rib that retunes the gun to your discipline. A hand-filling semi-beavertail fore-end, a Monte Carlo stock with an adjustable comb, a Racing trigger — and walnut, hand-oiled, that you will struggle to stop looking at.

It is made in Brescia by Fabarm — the barrel-maker the prestige house Caesar Guerini trusts to build the barrels for its own guns. Offered in 30″ or 32″, and in such demand since its 2025 release that securing one means placing your order and joining the queue. This is the one — the side-by-side you wanted all along, with nothing left to settle for. $7,499.

The Gun You Were Told You Couldn’t Compete With

For a century the side-by-side was the gun you loved — never quite the gun you won with. The Infinite RS ends that.

For generations the side-by-side has been cast as the gentleman’s gun — the field gun, the heirloom over the fireplace, the gun of driven days and walked-up country. Beautiful, characterful, and quietly assumed to be a poor relation anywhere a score is kept.

There were reasons. A classic side-by-side was built light, to be carried for miles — not to soak up the recoil of two hundred targets in an afternoon. Its slim splinter fore-end gave the leading hand little to hold. Its twin barrels presented a broad, unfamiliar sighting plane to an eye trained on the narrow rib of an over-under. Choosing a side-by-side for serious clay shooting meant choosing, quietly, to give something away.

So the shooter who loved the side-by-side faced a hard little choice on every competition morning: shoot the gun you love, or shoot the gun that wins. For decades there was no third answer.

The Fabarm Infinite RS is the third answer. It keeps everything that makes a side-by-side worth loving — the slim profile, the lively balance, the way it simply feels right in the hands — and engineers out, one by one, every reason you were ever given not to compete with one. The pages that follow are the story of how. Walk through them, and let yourself want it.

Built On Forged Steel, Locked On Four Lugs

A competition gun is not judged on its first hundred targets. It is judged on its ten-thousandth.

Fall for a gun’s looks if you like — but marry it for what is underneath. A competition shotgun is not measured by the first crisp snick of the action across the gun-shop counter. It is measured by whether that action is still that crisp after a full season of practice rounds, club shoots and championship Sundays. Recoil is patient. It works a loose gun looser, shot after shot, until the crispness is quietly gone.

The Infinite RS is built not to let that happen. The heart of it is a forged steel receiver — forged, not cast: denser, stronger, the grain of the steel worked into shape rather than poured into a mould. Into it, the barrels lock on four lugs — four bearing surfaces sharing the load of every shot. It is an action built for the relentless round counts a real competitor puts through a gun, not the occasional day out.

What that buys you is trust — the quiet kind that lets you forget the gun entirely and think only about the target, because you know, without having to think about it, that the Infinite RS will be as tight and as honest on the last weekend of the season as it was on the first.

Tribore HP — The Barrels Are Where The Money Goes

Here is the part that should make you stop and look twice.

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. The proof of how good is not a slogan; it 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 this one — and when Caesar Guerini needs barrels, it does not make its own. It has Fabarm make them.

It starts 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. The internal stress in barrel steel is so high that some makers resort to cryogenically freezing their tubes to relieve it, a fix that is, in Fabarm’s own blunt words, more marketing than substance. Deep drilling is the real answer — and Fabarm’s two largest competitors reserve it for their custom-shop flagships only. Fabarm uses it on every gun it builds. This Infinite RS included.

Then there is the bore itself: Tribore HP. To love it, first understand the problem it solves. 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, deform fewer pellets, 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-off. The barrel runs an over-bored section at 18.70mm for low friction and a clean pattern — and then, ahead of it, a long 205mm conical section that gently narrows the bore back down 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 column on its way and softens the recoil into your shoulder.

That extra-long forcing cone is worth 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. The barrel feature the most expensive guns in the world are sold on, you simply get — and what is left to separate an Infinite RS barrel from one costing three times as much is, in large part, the price tag.

Tested To 1630 Bar — And Cleared For Steel No Rival Will Allow

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 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, a limit drawn straight from C.I.P. rules. The Infinite RS 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) — improved-modified and full. No rival offers it.

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. The pattern result, on Fabarm’s own published data, is decisive: 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.

The QRR — A Rib That Changes To Suit Your Discipline

Most shotgun ribs are fixed for the life of the gun. The Infinite RS gives you one you can swap.

Start with what the rib does for your eye. The Infinite RS is topped with a tapered rib — 10mm at the breech, narrowing to 8mm at the muzzle — and that shape matters. Bring the gun up and the sight picture is clean, raised and narrow, far closer to the over-under or semi-auto a clay shooter knows than to the wide twin-barrel plane of a traditional side-by-side. For a century that sight picture was the side-by-side’s quiet handicap on the competition line; on the Infinite RS it simply is not.

But the real story is the QRR — the Fabarm Quick Release Rib. On the Infinite RS the rib is not fixed for the life of the gun. It is a removable, interchangeable component — the same forward-thinking system Fabarm fits to the Allsport, also stocked at Gun Bar. Change the rib, and you change the way the gun shoots.

What a rib really governs is point of impact — POI — where the pattern prints relative to the bead. The Infinite RS is supplied with a 50:50 POI rib: half the pattern above the bead, half below. That flat-shooting 50:50 is the natural choice for sporting clays, where targets cross, drop and quarter in every direction and you want the pattern centred on exactly what you see.

Here is where the QRR earns its keep for the Australian shooter. Fabarm has a 65:35 QRR in development for the Infinite RS — a rib that prints 65% of the pattern above the bead and 35% below. That raised point of impact is built for rising targets, which makes it close to ideal for DTL — Down-The-Line trap, the staple discipline of Australian clay-target shooting. Buy the Infinite RS as a sporting gun today, and when the 65:35 QRR arrives the very same gun can be set up for the trap line — no second shotgun required.

Where Your Front Hand Finally Has Something To Hold

The single biggest reason a side-by-side struggled on the competition line — solved.

Here is the honest weakness of the traditional side-by-side — the one those who love them do not much like to admit. The classic splinter fore-end, that slim and elegant sliver of wood along the barrels, is a lovely thing to look at and gives your leading hand almost nothing to hold. For a walked-up day in the field, fine. For competition, where control of the gun is everything and your front hand does the steering, it is a genuine handicap.

The Infinite RS fixes it without hesitation. It wears a semi-beavertail fore-end — a fuller, hand-filling shape that gives your leading hand a proper, confident, repeatable grip on the gun. You hold the Infinite RS the way you hold a gun you intend to shoot, not merely to carry.

It is a small-sounding change with an outsized effect. A front hand that is properly supported is a front hand that steers smoothly, swings consistently and holds its form through a long string of targets. This is the detail that quietly turns a side-by-side from a beautiful compromise into a true competition gun — and because it is shaped from the same hand-oiled walnut as the stock, it looks every bit as good as it works.

A Monte Carlo Stock, Adjustable To You — In Walnut You Will Not Stop Touching

A target gun has to fit. It does not have to be plain while it does it.

A clay gun that does not fit you cannot be shot well, however good it is underneath — and fit is not a happy accident, it is set. The Infinite RS is built around a Monte Carlo stock with an adjustable comb. Raise it, lower it, move it until the gun places the pattern exactly where your eye goes — then lock it there for good. With a 377mm length of pull and measured drop at comb and heel, it comes to the shoulder the same way every single time. And the same mount, every time, is what a score is quietly built upon.

The Racing trigger is adjustable and crisp, tuned to break clean under the finger with no creep and no surprise — the kind of trigger you stop noticing, which is the highest thing a trigger can be.

And then there is the wood. The Infinite RS is stocked in walnut, hand-oiled — not sprayed, not lacquered, not hidden beneath a hard synthetic shell, but finished by hand, oil worked patiently into the grain until the figure of the timber glows up through it. It is warm under the palm. It catches the light along the comb. It is the part of the gun your eye keeps returning to in the cabinet — and the part no moulded stock can ever give you back.

A gun you can set to fit you perfectly is a gun you will shoot well. A gun finished in hand-oiled walnut is a gun you will simply love to own. The Infinite RS quietly refuses to make you choose between the two.

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

Your Infinite RS arrives with five quality chokes. There is still a strong case for an upgrade.

Every Infinite RS 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 sporting 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. Chokes are 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. That is the kind of edge a serious competitor feels when the targets stretch out and the margins get thin. Fit a set of Teague chokes to the Tribore HP barrels of an Infinite RS 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 Infinite RS and a matched set of Teague Precision Chokes leave together, set up as one package, rather than shooting a season first and wishing you had. Speak to the Gun Bar team about specifying Teague chokes with your order.

Everything The Competition Line Demands

Modern competition engineering, in the most characterful gun on the rack.

30-Inch Or 32-Inch — Pick Your Swing

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

Fabarm Infinite RS — Full Specifications

The complete specification for the Infinite RS, 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.

Where The Infinite RS Comes Into Its Own

The gun nobody expects — right up until the scores go on the board.

Worth The Wait — A Word On Availability

The Infinite RS is not a gun you will simply find sitting on a shelf.

Honesty first: the Infinite RS is not sitting in stock waiting to be grabbed. Released in early 2025, it arrived into a world with a fierce and growing appetite for side-by-side shotguns — and demand has run a long way ahead of what Fabarm can build.

Fabarm delivers to Australia on a quarterly cycle, and every unit is spoken for. The reality for anyone who wants an Infinite RS here is straightforward: you place your order, and you take your number in the queue. Guns are allocated as each delivery lands, and they find their new homes quickly.

You will start to see Infinite RS guns in the wild — slowly, surely, as each Australian allocation is filled. But the odds of walking into a shop and finding one on the rack are slim. If you want one, the move is simple: order now, and secure your place in line. The wait is the price of a gun this much in demand — and the queue only lengthens.

Fabarm Infinite RS — Common Questions

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