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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 .
Stevens Arms was founded by Joshua Stevens with help from backers W.B. Fay and James Taylor in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, [3] in 1864 as J. Stevens & Co. Their earliest product was a tip-up action single shot pistol.
It was followed in 1930 by a 20 gauge Model 520. [15] Stevens Model 520 (1938-1939) The Model 520 last appeared in a Stevens sales publication in 1928 and 1929 (Catalog #57) [5] but remained in full production until 1939. [16] During this time it was sold as a store branded gun and under Stevens' budget line Riverside Arms.
Savage Arms is an American gunmaker based in Westfield, Massachusetts, with operations in Canada and China.Savage makes a variety of rimfire and centerfire rifles, as well as Stevens single-shot rifles and shotguns.
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.
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It was offered in the Crack Shot No. 15 rifle, which debuted in 1900. [1] It was also available in the Stevens Favorite rifle, which was first released in 1894 and discontinued in 1935. [ 1 ] It originally used a 10 to 11 gr (0.65 to 0.71 g ) black powder charge under a 67 gr (4.3 g) slug; this was later replaced by Smokeless powder .
Meriden introduced the Model 15 slide-action .22 rifle based on Savage patents in the fall of 1912. The main plant of the company was sold to New England Westinghouse in 1916 (which soon resold it to Colt), and in 1918 due to the end of WWI Sears closed the Meriden Firearms Company.