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Stevens 410 Double

fugawefugawe Member Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭
edited April 2018 in Ask the Experts
About 20 years ago I was given a Stevens double barrel .410 with a non-correct buttstock and barrels that appeared to have been painted gold. It didn't always cock one side on opening. Recently I pulled it out to see why and discovered that it wasn't a 311 like I assumed. It has no model number but the frame, barrels, forestock, forestock mounting piece and opening lever are all serial numbered and matching. What I thought was gold paint turned out to be yellowed varnish. It doesn't have internal hammers but linear spring driven strikers. Left side of the frame has STEVENS on it. The right side has J. STEVENS A---Y, the letters in between aren't there. The spacing between the A and Y look right for J STEVENS ARMS COMPANY, not J STEVENS ARMS AND TOOL COMPANY. This should put it in the 1920-1940 range. The barrels only have 410 GAUGE on them. The barrels are 23 1/2". Can anyone shed some light on what model this is?
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  • fugawefugawe Member Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello
    I just picked up three shotguns from a friend of mines, dad who diden't use them anymore. A H&R topper jr single in 28 ga, a remington 870 wingmaster in 20 ga and a stevens model 311 series H double in 410, all guns about 20 years old and in very good or better shape. He said none of them shot more than ten times. Here is my question doe's anyone know where I can buy a nicer stock and forearm for the stevens 311? Without spending a kings ransome, just something to dress it up a little.Or someone who does this.The wood is just so damn ugly! Please let me know, thankyou Beltfed
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  • fugawefugawe Member Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WHO HAS A J STEVENS ARMS 410 RECEIVER OR A RIVERSIDE 315 RECEIVER, A 311 NEW MODEL IS NOT THE SAME
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The replaced butt stock, might be the giveaway? In the late 30's Stevens/Savage brought out a line of guns, with Tenite plastic stocks and forends. Because the Tenite plastic wasn't durable, and didn't stand up to abuse like wood. Production stopped in the early 50's.

    To make a long story short. The Tenite 410 double was known as the Stevens Model 530M. It is probably one of the least common of the Stevens Tenite guns. Because production was nonexistent during W W II. My WAG is that your shotgun, is a Model 530M sans Tenite stok and forend.
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You really need to post some pic's if you want to identify it. Or you could look threw all the savage stevens stuff at gun parts, the one ones with schematic's are the most helpful.

    https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/savstevspgfld/shotguns-sav

    Back in the day, when people actually fixed things; old cheap broken stuff was repaired or made functional by cobbling parts. Sometimes it was used to train Bubba to do better work.
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