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NC National Brass & Copper Tube Co. (1917–1918) – Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Manufactured .303 British ammunition during World War I. OMF Saint Marks Powder Co. (A division of Olin-Mathieson) – Saint Marks, Crawfordville, Florida. Made ball powder for their ammunition factories. It was sold off to General Dynamics in 1998.
Stevens Arms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle , shotgun , and target pistol designs.
Stevens Model 520 (1909–1913) Stevens Catalog No. 53 (1911) The first Stevens 520 appeared in Stevens' 1909 Catalog No. 52 and was also offered for sale in the fall 1909 Sears & Roebuck catalog. [4] [8] It is easily recognizable by its "humpback" double receiver. It has a round slide release knob on the left side of the receiver, a visible ...
As far back as 1787 a Frenchman by the name of M. Magne de Marolles gave an account of choke-boring, though he argued against it. [3]Some sources state that the first pioneer was a Czech named Dominik Brandejs, who made shotguns with a choke in order to reduce the dispersion of shots, but his design was not popular in the 1820s.
The Stevens Boys Rifles were a series of single-shot takedown rifles produced by Stevens Arms from 1890 until 1943. The rifles used a falling-block action (sometimes called a tilting-block, dropping-block, or drop-block) and were chambered in a variety of rimfire calibers, such as .22 Short , .22 Long Rifle , .25 Rimfire , and .32 Rimfire .
The actual Stevens 311 started manufacture around 1920 when it was called the Springfield 5000, changing names to the 5100 in 1931 and finally being renamed the Stevens 311 in 1940. It was considered a utility grade of shotgun without checkering or engraving and a trigger for each barrel. The shotgun is a boxlock type of shotgun.
An ideal choke would be a cylinder bore (the loosest) as the hunter wants the shot to spread out as quickly as possible. If this hunter were using a full choke (the tightest) at 20 m (22 yd), the shot would be very close together and cause an unnecessarily large amount of damage to the rabbit, or, alternatively, a complete miss of the rabbit.
In the trapdoor Springfield Model 1865 (and similar) the rear of the firing pin tube within the breechblock is angled away from the centerline of the barrel toward the hammer. [6] The Sharps rifle uses a firing pin block to solve this alignment problem. The block sits within a recess in the breechblock.