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Erik W That's why you are here, to learn.

Forehand

Which of these would you consider makers of low end or utility type only SxS�s?

I would think Stevens/Savage, Iver Johnson, Harrington & Richardson, would fit in this category.

And The AJ Aubrey

Drever

Buck every one of those manufacturers made utility type shotguns but not low end. Most are excellent guns if you use them in the way they were meant to be used. They are not high volume competition guns to be instantly converted to take you into the Olympic trails or perfectly balanced English game guns to be used on high driven birds at a country estate hunt. They were guns built for the average American in an era where a lot if not most Americans could only afford to have one gun. It was used to hunt every species under the sun, protect a home and whatever, that�s all. Unadorned, but well made, and would last forever if used in the way it was intended.

Wasn't there one named Meridian?

Buck2,

Meriden

Add a current maker - Galazan/Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturer.

D.M. Lefever

Fox Gun Co., Balto., MD., U.S.A.



Lefever can really be broken down in to several companies -- Lefever & Ellis; Dangerfield & Lefever; Barber & Lefever; Nichols & Lefever; Lefever Arms Co.; D.M. Lefever & Sons, Syracuse, NY; D.M. Lefever Sons & Co., Syracuse, NY; D.M. Lefever Sons & Co., Defiance, Ohio; D.M. Lefever Arms Co., Defiance, Ohio; and D.M. Lefever Co., Bowling Green, Ohio.

Colton and later Union Fire Arms Co., Toledo, Ohio. Hollenbeck Gun Co. in West Virginia was mentioned previously, but that then became Three-Barrel Gun Co. and finally Royal Gun Co.

W.H. Davenport Arms Co. made some doubles as well as all their single barrels. Hopkins & Allen Arms Co.; Forehand & Wadsworth; Forehand Arms Co.; Whitney Safety Fire Arms Co.; Andrew Fyrberg & Sons Mfg. Co.; Torkelson (a couple of different companies); Parry Fire Arms Co., Ithaca, NY; Wilkes-Barre Gun Co.

I'm running down, someone else take up the list!!

When I was a 12 year old kid living in Illinois I made my own single barrel shotgun. I carved the stock out of a 2'X6" and used a length of 3/4" plumbing pipe for a barrel. I shot low brass trap loads through it. Does that count as a US made shotgun? Steve Thornhill Shotgun Company?
Steve