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| If it works . . . If the pins don't rub, I'd say it is fine.
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| It's a Stevens, not anywhere close to a premium gun. What is going on is that the monoblok for the barrel assembly was bored to a different spacing than the receiver. Odds are you will find that on every Stevens you can put your hands on. Good news is that it doesn't matter a bit, the anvil on shotgun primers is placed so it's still perfectly sensitive to an off center strike. Basically if you quit looking at this you'll find your gun still fires every time you pull the trigger. Note, one weakness for the Stevens is that it's not been designed as a competition gun so 2 or 3 years of heavy use, say 500 rounds or more per month, and you may start seeing misfires due to worn out firing pins.
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| Posts: 5356 | Location: Michigan | Registered: November 07, 2008 |  
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| quote: Originally posted by Scooter123: It's a Stevens, not anywhere close to a premium gun. What is going on is that the monoblok for the barrel assembly was bored to a different spacing than the receiver. Odds are you will find that on every Stevens you can put your hands on. Good news is that it doesn't matter a bit, the anvil on shotgun primers is placed so it's still perfectly sensitive to an off center strike. Basically if you quit looking at this you'll find your gun still fires every time you pull the trigger.
Note, one weakness for the Stevens is that it's not been designed as a competition gun so 2 or 3 years of heavy use, say 500 rounds or more per month, and you may start seeing misfires due to worn out firing pins.
The good news is that there's probably not a person on Earth who will ever shoot a Stevens OU 500 times a month, and definitely not for 2 years. Not swiping at the gun or the OP, just saying that 99% of gunners don't shoot anywhere near that much and if they do, they are serious enough about it to spend bigger money on their gun(s).
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| I have the same gun without the Steven's name on it. I'll look this evening and see if mine looks the same.
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| quote: Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Not swiping at the gun or the OP, just saying that 99% of gunners don't shoot anywhere near that much and if they do, they are serious enough about it to spend bigger money on their gun(s).
Even though I swiped my card to pay for it, this is my son’s choice for a shotgun to use for his first year on his school’s trap team. There were multiple attempts to dissuade him from getting this one as I was trying to encourage him to go with something more along the Montefeltro line or a used Citori but he kept coming back to this one. He shot 18 on his 4th round ever so it must be working (even if it will only last a few years).
--------------- "Structural engineering is the art of moulding materials we don't understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyze, so as to withstand forces we cannot really access, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." Dr. A. R. Dykes
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