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Larry - the Hunter Special was so marked, and the Fulton Special had the birdie  Drew, agree--now that photos of the sides of the receiver are up--that it's not a Hunter Special. But I'm still wondering about the missing screws in the floorplate of the receiver, which are present on every Fulton I've ever seen. This gun doesn't have any. Brophy says very little about the Fulton guns, and the Hunter ad copy he quotes seems to indicate that the Fulton Special is nothing more than a Fulton with a few additional bells and whistles (full PG, engraving, etc). Must be more difference than that if those screws aren't present, because that would indicate that the receivers weren't the same, or were at least modified in the Fulton Special.
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Larry,
It is a time period thing. The early style Fulton receivers only had the one triggerplate screw just by the trigger guard. Thumb through Drew's picture trail and it shows both kinds of Fulton receivers.
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Dave--The SN visible in the 2nd photo, 1st post dates this particular gun to 1925. I could be misremembering, but I think I've seen Fultons older than that with the 3 screws. But then I don't remember any, period, with a single screw. Maybe all the ones I've seen have been later guns.
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c. 1919 1st style floor plate screw  Later cyanide colors, 2 screw receiver and 3 screw floor plate 
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nice looking colors Michael. Thomas and yourself are turning out some nice work.
Firearms imports, consignments ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Ez9oz9Rl.jpg)
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i just came across this discussion and im in the process of restoring a 20 guage hunter special serial #34139 [with the birds] im having a hard time figuring out how to install the sear springs. these sears are "L" shaped that pivot on screws on the top side of the receiver. as shown on numrich schematic under fulton shotgun. does anyone know how these are installed?
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