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Nice stevens 12ga double on gunbroker #321708173 Looks like a well made double, very different anyone here have one like this? Twist barrels and steel. Water table lockup looks like the Remington model 1889 hammer gun lockup.

That gun is a Stevens No. 360 as shown in the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. General Catalog No. 51. The No. 350 had "Special Smokeless Steel" tubes in the monobloc, The No. 360 had Twist tubes, and the No. 370 had Damascus tubes.



By General Catalog No. 52, said to be about 1906, they had dropped the underbolts in favor of a rotary bolt through a rib extension, and added a No. 380 which had Krupp Fluid Steel tubes.



By General Catalog No. 52 (Revised Edition), J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. had gone to making their barrels by the chopper lump method, which they called Demi-Bloc.

All in all the gun in question looks to be a very nice example of a very short-lived varient.

My very first double, purchased in 1954 was marked J Stevens Arms & Tool Co. It was 12ga 30" steel M&F bbls. Don't know its weight but I suspect somewhere from 7� to 8 lbs. It had a square, flat sided frame, no conturing at all somewhat like a flat side W21. It was rod cocked via lugs through knuckle depressed by forend & had coil main springs. There was no bbl joint so seemingly not a Mono-Block. As to whether or not it was chopper lumped I simply don't know, at that point in time I had never heard of chopper lump.
It was bolted by a single top bolt entering the extension rib from the side, much as on later Stevens guns. I recall the model number started with a 3 & ended with a 5 but uncertain as to the middle number, but in the back of my mind I want to say it was a 335. It was my only shotgun for a bit over 3 years & killed a fair amount of game, rabbit, squirel & quail in spite of its tight chokes. I shot mainly the economy loads of the era which were a 3DE eith 1oz of either #6 or #8 depending on what I was hunting that day. Wish I still had it.
When the "Baby Magnums" carrying 1�oz shot came on the market about that time I bought a box of them in #4 which I kept for "Predator" control on the farm. I think I shot them all up before I eventually traded it off some time in he early 60s with no apparent harm, have no idea what the chamber length was. At that time I didn't realize anything existd other than standard & 3" magnum. AAH the bliss of Youth.