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Oh I forgot to include this as Wikipedia's source. Their source is #19.^Canfield, Bruce (2007). Complete Guide to US Military Combat Shotguns. Mowbray Publishers Inc. pp. 94–95, 117, 134–139. ISBN...

From what i found in my searches it that it could be a proof mark and the inspectors initials.

The first bayonets produced by Remington on the US contract in September 1917 used the standard British marks as shown above. These then had the British proofs marked out and the US marking added as...

Yes but on those everything was written on the left side of the barrel like the trainers except the trainers had full length barrels from everything i have read only the trench gun was marked on both...

No it has the j Stevens on the right side and the chamber proof on the left and has matching number and U.S. stamp just above trigger all the P's and the flaming bomb's on it. The chokes were added...

A lot of the times if a military weapon is nickel or chrome plated they were used for drill or parade weapons. With that being said though I have never seen them do shotguns for those purposes and...

I didnt have a heat shield on it when i got it and i like the way it looks on it thats about it. i just wasnt sure about cutting the groves in and was curious what others thought about it. its...

Okay I have a dilemma. I have a Stevens 520-30 trench gun the barrel is a half inch shorter than everything i have found on barrel length and has been threaded for a Weaver choke which is still on...

Hello everyone new to the forum Im from Oklahoma and have in the last 2 years started my military arms collection a long time intrest of mine. i started with a new ar15 then a new 1911 then got a...