So the Zoli Mid Rib is what I would class as the Zoli Z-Sport step rib because this actually has a step-rib style of top rib.
Antonio Zoli is a company with a wealth of gunmaking history. It is based in Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, alongside many of the other Italian brands of shotgun manufacturers. The first Antonio Zoli was born in 1905, his father Giuseppe built flintlocks in his shop in Magno, a small village located in the vicinity of Gardone, near the present company location.
Archives indicate that the Zoli family were making guns as early as 1490 in Magno, then reports from around 1845 state that Giovanni Zoli was a renowned flintlock maker. Just over 100 years on, in 1956, it was said to be the first company to build replicas of old muzzle loading guns. In the following decade came the manufacture
