Have this shotgun and dont know any thing about it and cant find any info on it. On the side it says; J.stevens Arms & tool Company/Chicopee Falls,mass.USA/Browning pats.feb.7.1505.aug.27.1907. Any info. will help

you might try at www.shotgunworld.com

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Originally posted by AzDeerSlayer:
Have this shotgun and dont know any thing about it and cant find any info on it. On the side it says; J.stevens Arms & tool Company/Chicopee Falls,mass.USA/Browning pats.feb.7.1505.aug.27.1907. Any info. will help

Does it look like this one? If so, I can tell you a bit about it.


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that shotgun does look like it but with different wooden parts.

You might try http://www.faqfarm.com and go to the firearms/stevens section tons of answers to your stevens questions,The J Stevens Arms & Tool Co.changed names in 1913 to J Stevens and dropped the arm and tool. I have an old J Stevens Arm & Tool Co. singleshot 12 gauge and it says 1913..

Savage bought Stevens in 1928 and that looks to be a Stevens version of the Savage 28A. Made from 1928 to 1931. The bolt ,etc were related to the Browning A5. The Savage 720 was the autoloader version of the A5. I think I'm correct but this is a brief look before work.

savage 28 aka stevens 520

TrapperP:

I've got one that looks like that and I'd appreciate whatever you could tell me about yours. Does it have a locking lug on top of the bolt that fits in a rectangular (sort of squarish) cutout in the top of the receiver?

Mine's a 16 ga. 'Ranger' with no other marking. I assume it a store brand of some major manufacturer's model. It's checkered and has has a solid rib.

Any info's appreciated. Thanks. -WSJ

Stevens 520, also produced for Sears & Roebuck (Ranger) and Montgomery Ward (Western Field) are neat & interesting if primitive pump guns, lots of fine machine work and craftsmanship characteristic of the day (teens-20s). I just picked up this very nice specimen:

Stevens also made some rare trenchguns that also had that receiver configuration. Many have had their handguard/bayonnet lugs removed. The telltale would be three, evenly spaced, transverse knotches under the barrel, fore of the forend, where the old parts used to attach.