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Unread 06-23-2020, 11:48 PM   #1
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got my crackshot in today very nice gun not new but a nice old gun...I shot it with some long ammo first...brass hulls sticking some then tried long rifle in it had to use my knife to get it out...I got the cleaning kit out I run a brass wire brush thru it it got stuck like to have never got that thing out of the barrel...it was my fault I did not put enough of a longer handle on it....finally found a old handle to help push it thru the barrel...I figure it had been a lot of years since the barrels and chamber had been cleaned...I figure they had been shooting a lot of short cartiges in the gun...any way she now pulls even the long rifles when shot...seems to shoot true...I could hit a can at 45 steps every shot off hand at that...squirls better beware this fall...little gun might weigh 4 lbs should be no trouble to carry a little ways... I then got to cleaning guns it was raining here so I got a few wiped down looked at some I had not seen in a while...a old parker 10 ga with 3 1/2 inch chambers barrels are 30 inches but weigh 8 lbs 7 ounces I bet they are 125 thousands thick at the barrels end...mighty hefty....a little armerican arms 410 hammer gun with factory 20 inch barrels...weight 4 lbs....smallest 410 I ve ever seen....a german drilling 16 x 16 x 7 x 57 r one of the 16 ga barrels has a 22 magnum insert in it..it shoots 2 inches to the right of the scope....what ever you put the cross hairs on it and pull the trigger is done for...it has the quick detachable mounts I believe called claw mounts....the guy I got it from lived and worked as a guide in Alaska...he lived close to me in the winter months...he said he carried this gun broke down on all his hunting trips...he was a retired army man he was a big man about 6 foot 5...name was just slim....found a neww 30-30 marlin I ve never shot have had for many years and never shot it..traded a 55 chevy belair 2 door post for this gun many years ago I wish now I had the 55 back...a lc smith long range gun yep with 3 inch chambers its my old duck gun....that's all folks....charlie
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Charlie, just wondering which model/action your Crackshot is.



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Kathy's grandfather, Charlie Damory, had one of the Stevens .22's looks just like the one at the top. That little rifle hangs in a prominent place in my brother-in-law's den. The only difference I can see id that Charlie Damory's is a "Favorite." can anybody tell me what the difference might be?





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The Favorite had a solid frame in which the barrel would be inserted and locked in place whereas the gun in the pic does it without a solid breech
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Ok thanks Jim. I see the difference now.





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my crackshot is like the second picture...did not know there was two types of crackshots till I seen these pictures...since my gun has come in I seen another crackshot like the top picture....these little guns really shoot true....look out squirls this fall crackshot under one arm and the old 8 ga parker slung across my back...beware squirls....charlie
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Mine is like the top one. I was really looking for a Favorite when I came across the Crackshot at a gun show for pretty short money and I figured, close enough!
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From the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. Catalog No. 53, 1911 --

Catalog No. 53, 1911, pg 29.jpeg

Catalog No. 53, 1911, pg 32.jpeg

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In my copy of the second J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. Catalog No. 53, dated 9-1-1913, the Maynard Jr. and the Crack-Shot are over-stamped discontinued.

A new Crack Shot is in Catalog No. 54, the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co.'s last big catalog.

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New England Westinghouse took over J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. for war production for The Great War and changed the name to J. Stevens Arms Co. After the war they sold J. Stevens Arms Co. to Savage Arms Corp. which continued to operate it through WW-II. The No. 26 Crack Shot remained in the J. Stevens Arms Co. catalogs to 1941. For 1939 to 41 it is shown with a pistol grip stock.
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Kathy’s grandfather’s Favorite.


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