I'll bet you'd have to look very long and very hard to find one of these with evidence of heavy usage. The combination of ultra light weight and heavier 12 gauge shells would quickly wear on all but the most recoil-immune among us.
That said, it's very nicely done, if a bit out of the ordinary. For the price of a Stevens in decent condition (over here in the U.S., anyway), you have a far more interesting and much better finished sample of the firearms art.
Let us know how you do with it after you've shot it a bit. I've been fascinated by them since seeing Gun Digest articles from the 60s about them.
