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I recently acquired a Stevens Walnut Hill model 417 target rifle. I know it was made between 1932 and 1940 or 1946 or 1947 depending on what book you use to look it up. It is serial numbered in only two places, those being the bottom of the receiver under the lever and on the backside of the buttplate, the number being 20xx. Only other number marking is a 7 inside a circle on the rear of the barrel.
Does anyone have any info on the DOB of this rifle?
That’s the great thing about rifles. You can leave them in a safe, cram them in closets, under beds etc and they don’t complain and are there when you need them.
No way to pin down a Stevens rifle beyond the time frame they were built as you already have. Stevens records were destroyed back in the 1920's when a government oversight committee was looking into war profiteering at Stevens, and other companies, and Stevens happened to have a fire in their records room. Interestingly at the same time any management that was still there and worked at Stevens during WWI was sent out West for "work" and couldn't be contacted to appear in front of Congress to testify.
The serial numbers on Stevens single shots were also usually on the bottom of the barrel too, and should match the others.
marlinman93 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 11:08 am
No way to pin down a Stevens rifle beyond the time frame they were built as you already have. Stevens records were destroyed back in the 1920's when a government oversight committee was looking into war profiteering at Stevens, and other companies, and Stevens happened to have a fire in their records room. Interestingly at the same time any management that was still there and worked at Stevens during WWI was sent out West for "work" and couldn't be contacted to appear in front of Congress to testify.
The serial numbers on Stevens single shots were also usually on the bottom of the barrel too, and should match the others.
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