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Waid. I don't know those guns you are looking at, but I would pass. I have two LC Smiths that I don't have $1000.00 in. They are both shooters and the one is 85 to 90%. All that was wrong was the foreend. I'm making a new foreend now. It's a 1929 Field grade with case color and good blueing on the barrells. I paid $450.00. The other one is a 1906 model O. Damascus barrells. I shoot Federal shells from Midway. 5000 psi. Good grouse guns. They're heavy guns, but at my age"68" I can handle them untill I get to old. Just look around and be carefull. You can get a good buy.

oldhunter, he said that he wishes he had $750.00 to spend and that he's looking at a shotgun for $120 or obo, which leads me to think about this, is it better to buy a low priced double that may or may not hold up, cracked stock and all, or just go out and buy a good used pump???? For 120 bucks you might not get a Winchester M12 but you could get your hands on a good M37 or a Remington 870.

Waid, for $120 you could do worse in a first double, assuming the repair to the crack is well done. It looks like the stock is walnut (as opposed to birch on the later Stevenes) and should clean up well if you like to refinish. These older Stevens guns were utilitarian but pretty solid. Probably more people have started their double gun "career" with them than any other.

I really don't mind taking time to refinish things or doing a little gunsmithing, although my experience and abilities limit that but I'm just smart enough to realize when an actual gunsmith needs to look at something. Just as a little background info I'm not super new to guns and have so far had good luck buying almost all of them used(I actually didn't even buy the new one it was a present). This is also my second shotgun so I can always bust out the pump when I need it. If that is actually a Stevens as I suspect I found a couple companies making repro stocks for a reasonable price if that matters. Anybody have tips for identifying Stevens guns?

WAID: Another concern-something cracked that stock and it could have been a magnum load of steel shot, which could have caused a bulge in the brls right before the choke constriction OR opened the choke. You need to have someone measure both the bore and the choke constriction using a micrometer bore gauge-not just slide in a rule 'choke checker.'

There is some Stevens infro on this site
http://gun-quest.com/