I have been wanting a SxS 12 gauge coach gun for quite awhile now.
But I don't want to spend, nor can afford what it costs for the Steoger.
So I thought I would buy an older, less costly shotgun, and chop the barrels.
Well today I purchased a Worthington Special at a local gun show. I probably paid more then it is worth, but it feels real good, and looked OK in the lighting there.
The Worthington is a Stevens Model 315 boxlock made for the Worthington Hardware Store in Cleveland Ohio.
I got it home, in better lighting, and it looks even better.
It's clean. No pitting, inside or out. No rust.It has a one ding in the center rib between the two beads on the barrels, and it has some case hardening still visible.
Just a few light scratches in the wood. One tiny crack in the stock on the left side about an inch long.
Locks like a vault.
I just don't have the heart to cut the barrels down.
Now what ?
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But I don't want to spend, nor can afford what it costs for the Steoger.
So I thought I would buy an older, less costly shotgun, and chop the barrels.
Well today I purchased a Worthington Special at a local gun show. I probably paid more then it is worth, but it feels real good, and looked OK in the lighting there.
The Worthington is a Stevens Model 315 boxlock made for the Worthington Hardware Store in Cleveland Ohio.
I got it home, in better lighting, and it looks even better.
It's clean. No pitting, inside or out. No rust.It has a one ding in the center rib between the two beads on the barrels, and it has some case hardening still visible.
Just a few light scratches in the wood. One tiny crack in the stock on the left side about an inch long.
Locks like a vault.
I just don't have the heart to cut the barrels down.
Now what ?