Look what I found...

Weed · Sep 4, 2015

...stuffed under my stairs about a week ago.

It was made between 1920 and 1940. It's a 12 gauge single shot break open barrel.

There is some rust on it, but not much. Other than that its in great working condition. The company that made this
was bought by Savage Arms a long time ago. I like that this one was made in my home state.

I just finished mounting it on a wall right by the front door.

tctenten · Sep 4, 2015

Cool find.

SmokenFire · Sep 4, 2015

Agreed - and the patina on it looks cool too.

ribbedturtleneck · Sep 4, 2015

I have one of those. Nice find.

Phil · Sep 4, 2015

Sweet... hang on to it!

Rymerpt · Sep 4, 2015

OOOOOh old things that go boom. AWESOME

Weed · Sep 4, 2015

Phil said:
Sweet... hang on to it!

I plan on it!

I feel like it was special to the old guy who hid it. And it was well hidden.

moruga welder · Sep 4, 2015

nice old find ! :onfire:

Ashen · Sep 4, 2015

awesome.. my first gun was a Stevens pump when I was 15. Unfortunately the action broke and although we had a gun smith attempt a repair, it kept screwing up. Had to retire her and ended up getting a 870 remington. I knocked down a lot of birds with that Stevens though.

tsurrie · Sep 5, 2015

Nice find!
Really not into guns and such, but finding old stuff like that is always interesting.