Lowell- If I were to pick the classic gun to lay in a john boat and subject to rain, snow and water shaken from an old Lab, I could think of none more appropriate than a Stevens Model 325. Heavy and hammered, it could, and many did, absorb any abuse the old timmers may have heaped upon it.

Not pretty in the refined way valued by gentlemen, I can imagine no more classic gun for the john boat and no guide meat gathering crowd.

Cary