Alof With Single Shotgun

3D Model

The Alofs conversion is a contraption that can be bolted onto the side of a single shot break action shotgun to convert it into a 4+1 capacity repeating action. Patented by Herman Alofs in 1924 it was sold in the mid/late 1920s for $6. Surviving advertisements show it in the Iver Johnson catalog listed as 12ga, and in flyers directly from the Alofs Manufacturing Company offering it in 12, 16, 20, and .410 gauges. I am unaware of any examples not in 12ga, and I suspect the other sizes were advertised in hopes of finding buyers, but never actually produced except perhaps in prototype. These were only available for a few years before manufacture ceased.Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Alofs is that it actually works!-Ian McCollum It’s also attached to the Fallout New Vegas single shotgun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kd_hwY0w90 https://www.forgottenweapons.com/alofs-a-steampunk-mousetrap-for-a-shotgun/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US1507881A/en