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44 or 44 1/2 Difference?
Aug 9th, 2016 at 9:09am
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How can I tell one from the other?
  
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Re: 44 or 44 1/2 Difference?
Reply #1 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 9:19am
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One quick way is to look at the sides of the block above the receiver--44s are absolutely flat and higher, 44-1/2s have a distinctly rounded shape.
  
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Re: 44 or 44 1/2 Difference?
Reply #2 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 10:05am
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If you can work the lever and see the bottom arms of the breech block descend from below the action, it's a 44 1/2.

The 44 has a transverse screw through the receiver above and forward of the lever pivot screw where the 44 1/2 has none.  This is the pivot for the swinging breech block on the 44.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 10:10am
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Reply #4 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 10:15am
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44 1/2

  
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Re: 44 or 44 1/2 Difference?
Reply #5 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 11:09am
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44 1/2



Is this scope mounted in Stevens' incredibly rare double-micrometer rear mount--the original screwed-on type, before dovetailed blocks were introduced about 1905?
  
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Re: 44 or 44 1/2 Difference?
Reply #6 - Aug 9th, 2016 at 11:43am
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The 44 has a transverse screw through the receiver above and forward of the lever pivot screw where the 44 1/2 has none.  This is the pivot for the swinging breech block on the 44.


There is a exception to the above. If it was made as a 22RF and had a ejector, they added that screw to the 44 1/2, as that's what the ejector, spring and plunger, has to bare against to allow for ejection.

If you can operate the lever or see a picture with it open, the "legs" of the BB will tell what it is.

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