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J Stevens A&T CO. info need
Jan 31st, 2016 at 3:48pm
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I know that a side by side is not a single shot, but a Stevens is a Stevens when it comes to collecting.

I have a Stevens model 325 12 ga. in my shop for new firing pins and I am wondering if any one might know when it was made, and which catalog number I would be able to find more info about it.

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon carefully taking it apart then reassembling it. It is a simple old style box lock type and it is much easier to replace the firing pin compared to a Stevens 311.

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Reply #1 - Jan 31st, 2016 at 4:13pm
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My dad had one he got in a trade. It needed firing pins. Dad sent me to the local gunsmith with it. Time passed, a lot of time. I came back from Colorado and while getting up to date with Dad, asked what ever happened to that old Stevens shotgun? That jogged his memory so he asked me to go get it for him. I did. It had been on the gunsmiths rack for about ten or eleven years. I asked for the shotgun, The smith went directly to it, read the tag and said that will be twelve dollars and tax. Dad almost fell over when I showed up with the shotgun. He gave it to me on the spot. I shot trap with it a lot. After about every hundred rounds would have to hammer the receiver so it would lock up tight for the next league night. Finally the firing pins went bad (soft). I fixed um.  Then one day the stock broke in half while shooting trap. Everyone laughed. So I tossed it in the garbage can in the alley behind the house. One day a fourteen or so year old kid knocked on the door to ask if he could have that old shotgun in the alley. One happy kid.  It was one bad piece of junk. Soft iron/steel? Junky wood. Wait a minute............. mine was a Stevens 335.  Never mind.

This really should be in off topic. It's a shotgun.

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Reply #2 - Jan 31st, 2016 at 4:33pm
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Thanks Joe

I was not sure to post my request, but I figured I would start here.

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Reply #3 - Jan 31st, 2016 at 5:18pm
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I worked in a gunshop in Long Beach California in 1972, I remember that man brought in an old Stevens SXS shotgun in virtually new condition, only that it didn't work. So, I took the stock off, and took it apart as far as I could. The locks, both left and right, had completely collapsed. I told him that I'd have to have another one to cannibalize parts from, but it just wasn't worth the effort. Now, having said that, I love Stevens single-shot rifles.
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I have a Stevens model 335 325 12 ga...if any one might know when it was made

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Reply #5 - Jan 31st, 2016 at 8:09pm
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Thanks John. My typing skills are not the best
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Reply #6 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 1:49am
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Think if the metal parts of the 335 had been hardened, at all, would have been a decent cheap shotgun.

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I checked the receiver again this morning, and it is stamped 325. Any ideas as to the markings?

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Reply #8 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 6:51am
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I agree with you. If the parts had been harden it would of been one heck of a shotgun. It was very easy to take apart and reassemble. The easies shotgun I have fixed , just like working on a single shot rifle.

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Reply #9 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 12:37pm
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The "J. Stevens A & T Co." is the marking used prior to WW1.  After the war, Savage bought the company and guns were marked "J. Stevens Arms".

I've looked in the 1896 thru 1905 catalogs I have, and did not find a Model 325.   Models with similar numbers, yes.  There's Models 350/360/370 listed, hammerless action, seemingly differing only in the finish on the barrels.  

My hypothesis is that a 325 would have to be something later, but as I said above, not later than 1916.  

added:  I see the 330 and 335 models in a 1929 catalog reprinted in Kimmel's book, for what that's worth.




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I saw that Gun parts has the gun listed as a 325 Double. I am going to set up and make a couple of firing pins.

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I saw that Gun Parts has the gun listed as a 325 Double. I am going to set up and make a couple of firing pins.

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Reply #12 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 3:36pm
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I saw this on a gun Values board from about a year ago:

[Stevens made two totally different guns they called the Model 325. The first was a Hammerless double barrel shotgun made between 1905 and 1909. This thread originally dealt with that shotgun.]

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Reply #13 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 8:40pm
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Thanks Joe

I have been looking in all of the books that I have. Gun Parts only listed a gun number with very few parts. I was looking for some kind of write up about the gun its self.

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ron wrote on Feb 1st, 2016 at 8:40pm:
Thanks Joe

I have been looking in all of the books that I have. Gun Parts only listed a gun number with very few parts. I was looking for some kind of write up about the gun its self.

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You might want to browse Cornell Publications.  

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The model 325 is specifically mentioned in the catalog at the latter URL
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