One of the last ones made, by pricing on the label,, the serial number, and also by the field "beavertail" forearm, the earlier M97's had the 18 ring "corncob" style forearm, smaller in dia., and the mid-1930's M97's showed a slight change in the shape of the pistol grip and the comb fluting as well-one of the best pump shotguns extant--


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..