Mike,as F2F said there were lots of models made by Stevens, one of them didn't have normal hammers and sears, it used a striker mechanism similar to one of their hammerless single shot shotguns. I have seen different models of Stevens shotguns with the Wards Hercules marking on them. Some of the older Stevens guns were well made for the money. A study of all the double guns made by Stevens-Savage would be interesting.

Jim

I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong