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He has LOTS of Stevens stuff

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My Stevens 250 project made a major leap forward recently. Wednesday we picked up new wood from the Macon Gunstock Company at Warsaw Missouri.

This spring Mary, our youngest son and I drove down to the Macon Gunstock Company so son could order a left hand sporter stock for his 03 Springfield.

I took along the action of the Stevens 250 just to see if they had anything like it. Brian Macon rolled the action over and around and said, "This looks strangely familiar.". It came to him that he was putting new wood on the same model Stevens. He retrieved his relic and we made the comparison. He had a broken stock to work with and his own gunstock company to back him up.



Here is his 250. I hope mine looks as good.

well done!

Here is the scan of the page with the No. 250 from J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. Catalog No. 50 (circa 1902) --



I seem to have lost the scans from the later catalogs. I deleted every pic I had in Photobucket, so they will never be coming back.

By Catalog No. 51, J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. had gone to the mono-bloc style of barrel construction --



added the 16-gauge to the offerings and versions with Twist and Damascus barrel tubes --

It's interesting that they show the barrel sleeves stopping in the breech block with the joint in the chamber area.
Mike

By Catalog No. 52 (circa 1906), J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. had eliminated the underbolt, lengthened the rib extension and went to using a rotary bolt through the rib extension.



They also added a No. 280 with Krupp Steel barrel tubes --

I have a Belgian Pieper marked Modified Diana which uses that type of joining of the barrels to the breech block (Pieper didn't call it a Mono-Block) . On the Pieper the joint is in about the middle of the chamber & the barrels are threaded in which it appears is the case with the Stevens also, though the barrel stubs are shorter on the Stevens.

By General Catalog No. 52 (Revised Edition), J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. had changed their method of barrel construction to what they called Demi-Bloc, which most of us know as chopped lump.





They dropped Twist and Damascus barrels and the sidelock hammer doubles became the No. 255 and No. 265 --



The No. 255 and No. 265 remained through the last J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. catalogs and price lists, but didn't survive into the J. Stevens Arms Co. era.

Thanks for your efforts.