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After looking at the one on Gunbroker... You guys are right as usual. Screw locations are all the same. Lever is exactly the same. Why would anyone put that nice wood on a stevens? Whoever did it - sure did a nice job. The wood and buttplate fit together without a gap or bump anywhere. Any guesses on how old it is? Were all Steven's made with 2-3/4 chambers?
Thanks for all the help.
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That gun on gunbroker looks just like my first double, a "J Stevens", except for the "Parker Style" hinge pin. Unfortunately I can no longer remember it's model, am thinking it must have been a 325.
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Guys have always liked to tinker, and "improve" their guns. A reason is not always nessesary..... It is also possible that it was a "lunchbox gun" carried home by an employee, a little at a time.
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J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. are pre WW-I guns and some of their higher grade doubles featured Krupp barrels and rotary bolts, but perhaps never got the handling of better known American classics. J. Stevens Arms Co. was the name beginning about 1920, when Savage took over after WW-I.
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Yep, it has been restocked to the tastes of Russian peasentry (in the spirit of volk masses). If you don't believe me take a picabo at Remingtonsky Mekhanichesky Zavod of Izhevsk SxS stock specs. 
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Researcher, are there any good places to study up on pre-war stevens?
Jager, You sure dooo talk funny. You "upper-crust" comedians sure are hard to follow. But then I'm easily confused.
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2-Piper,
That gun on Gunbroker is the exact one I have. I know that you
were wondering about my Stevens. The gun that Ironman has is without a doubt a Stevens model 335. I'm sitting here looking at
mine as I type this. So, you're gun must have been a model 235. The
letter P in a circle that he speaks of is on the barrel flats of my
model 315 (Riverside Arms) gun, but is not on my 335. Ron
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Ron;
I believe that all the 2xx models were hammer guns, with the hammerless ones being 3xx. I know that mine did not have the Parker style hinge pins & was not one of the higher grades with rotary bolts etc. Mine was one of the guns with detachable floor plate & rod cocking via forend cams. Also had totally square frame, no sculpting of the forward bar. Wish I had that one back, only for the reason it was "My" first dbl, actually first shotgun I personally owned, would not care for another only "That" one. I know there was a model 325, so thinking that must have been what it was. The 315 was the striker fired gun with central cocking lever. I had one of those once in 20ga marked Central Arms Co.
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I have posted this before. This is Daryl Halquist's beautiful 385 Stevens. As said before, I think the colors are about as beautiful as any I have ever seen. http://www.worldpath.net/~jmann/Stevens%20385.jpgBest, John
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