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Anyone familar with Sloan Arms Co.? I am guessing this is a hardware store brand made by either Stevens or Crescent Arms (Most likely). Any help would be appreciated. There is a 20 gauge double in reasonably good condition for sale.

there was a sloan's sporting goods wholesaler located in ct during the 60's and 70's. they did import affordable side by side hunting guns made in spain. as i recall these guns were marked sloan's sporting goods, ridgefield, ct. i had a 20 that cost about $300 new back then. it shot just as good as other guns costing ten times that much.... the more things change the more they stay the same.

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"Schoverling, Daly and Gales changed ownership several times throughout the years. Eventually, the company's primary asset was the Charles Daly trademark. In 1919 Henry Modell bought the company and controlled it for several years. In the 1920's, he sold out to the Walzer family, owners of Sloan's Sporting Goods of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Walzer's established a branch of Sloan's in New York known as Charles Daly & Company. Sloan's imported quality shotguns from many companies, including Italian gun makers Beretta and Vincenzo Bernardelli, Miroku of Japan and Garbi of Spain.

In 1976, Sloan's sold the Daly division to Outdoor Sports Headquarter's, Inc., a sporting goods wholesaler located in Dayton, Ohio. OSHI continued the importation of high grade Daly Shotguns, primarily form Italy and Spain, and expanded the brand to include black powder firearms, riflescopes and binoculars, ammunition, clothing, boots, shooting glasses, handgun grips and knives. By the mid-1980's, the Charles Daly brand was transformed into a broad consumer line of excellent firearms and hunting accessories. "

Pete