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The first shotgun I used as a kid was a Stevens, hammerless, single shot, break open, 20 gauge. Used it for a variety of hunting on my grandparents farm in Virginia. Everything from doves to groundhogs.
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I have a Beretta Folder in a 410 bore. Weighs last then 5 Lbs. and with 3" shells lets you know that it has some recoil. When I do shoot it I use 2.5" shells, much more comfortable.
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Remington's Model 1894(?) was a hammerless single.
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Roundsworth, I think the model 1894 was Remington's first hammerless double. They built a 1902 single shot that looks like a hammerless, but is actually a side cocker. You may well be right of course about there being a hammerless single made by Remington, but I haven't run into it...Geo
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As far as I know, other than trap gun$, the only single-shots currently manufactured, hammerless, are Baikal MP-18's and the Yildiz .410.
No one currently imports the Russian Baikals because of import restrictions resulting from Ukraine activities. The Yildiz is available only through Academy brick and mortar stores. For the money, both are hard to beat for reliability and carry weight. The Yildiz is a knock-off of the old Beretta folding design. Gil
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450/400 2&3/8"? A rifle conversion had occurred to me, this is also the gun I was considering having a 20 bore paradox tube made for.
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That's what I had in mind, Steve.
I was shooting a friend's Holland double last week in that caliber, we were trying out some .405 Woodleigh Weldcores to see how they shot. The undersized bullets work quite well if you've got all the other ducks in a row.
A lovely cartridge to shoot - and I think it'd work well on deer.
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The J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. offered a number of hammerless single barrels from 1900 to 1916. Beginning with the No. 140 in General Catalog No. 50 --  By General Catalog No. 51, the hammerless single barrel offerings had expanded to include these top-lever guns -- No. 180 --  No. 185, 190 and 195 --  The No. 180 remained in the line to J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. General Catalog No. 54, their last --  and by then they added a trap gun No. 182 --  After The Great War, the J. Stevens Arms Co. offered the No. 181 --  No. 183 -- 
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Remington's Model 1894(?) was a hammerless single. Remington Arms Co. offered two slightly different side-cocker single barrels. First the Model 1893 aka No. 3, from the October 1894 catalogue --  In the second Remington Arms Co. catalogue for 1902 they began phasing in the 1902 Model aka No. 9 --  while still offering the No. 3 in the slower selling gauges -- 
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