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.

           Joe. 

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.

Thanks John. My typing skills are not the best
  ron

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

ron

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.

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.

ron

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.

ron