I had a fellow give me a gun as part of a deal payoff.
We live in North Carolina, pure hill billy area.
He said the gun was his grandfathers and only been shot a few times.
He said he had been trying to "redo" the gun to restore it to it's original condition.
The ONLY plastic part on the entire gun is the butt plate he added to it last year.
The gun has NO SERIAL NUMBER at ALL.
NONE. It was never filed off, it was never there. I have taken it to MANY gun smiths that have seen it and looked and verified NO serial number.
The ONLY marking on the gun that could be even remotley a serial number says :
No 10
And it is inside the "breach"
The stamp on the barrel says 27v on one side and 47A on the other in tiny little circles.
It says
Stevens Model 940E
Savage Arms
Westfield Mass U.S.A.
It is a model .410
Okay inside Breach with Markin NO 10
STAMP on Gun
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