Researcher: thankyou for that clarification. As an odd-twist on all of this, I handled a fairly late-model Coast-to-Coast Hardware marked pumpgun at a small shop on Friday-last that was unmistakably a Model 31 clone. I didn't have my reading glasses on to get all the fine details off of the gun, but the design was an obvious copy. The only modification I could discern was a tang safety instead of the triggerguard location. From looking into Coast-to-Coast guns on the web, I'd guess it was made by Savage.
