Alex, If it is a Hunter One Trigger it should say it on the trigger plate housing. The only way to tell if the beavertail is original is to take the forend iron off and see if the wood is serial numbered to the gun. So many L.C. Smith Field grade guns after 1919, lost their forends because of the way they were made. Hunter Arms knew of this problem and issued a proclamation stating that all L.C. Smiths were to have the surplus ejector forends put on except Field Grades. In 1913 L.C. Smith used the Curtis Forend fastener (like anson & dealey)on all of their non-ejector guns until around 1919 when they put a memo out stopping the use of it, a patent conflict, so starting using surplus ejector forends except on Field Grades
If this gun you are looking at has the Miller One Trigger, I don't know what there is to know. L.C. Smith let you order what ever you wanted, and the Beavertail forend was one of them, but like I said, the wood should be serial numbered also, under the forend iron or on the end where the two small screws are holding the forend parallel.
Last edited by JDW; 11/25/06 04:46 PM.
