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any one out there have a 10 or 12 guage forend for a lc smith of the 1900- 1912 era its 1 inch 17/32 or 9/16 across the flats at the knuckle. been looking for years with no luck one feller had a possibility but id have to sell the gun to get the forend.

Is your smith a hammer or hammerless shotgun? Have one for a hammer gun. Thanks Merle

hammerless do you think it could be fitted? mine appears to be the snap on type. at this point ill try anything. its a nice elsie and as ive said im tried for years to find one. it if helps the serial# is 310910 1906 manufacture. thank you [bob]

Bob (pod) I don't believe a hammer for end will work, the reason is on a hammerless gun you have cocking rods, and they hit on a cocking plate to recock your internal hammers. The area in the for end should be milled out to accept the cocking rods. Naturally hammer guns do not have this.

Early Syracuse "elsies" both hammer and hammerless looked very close in comparison, but they both used a joint check to extract the shells.

Bob, The hammer forend willn't fit the hammerless. I have a friend that had a hammerless forend in white with all the small part with it. I'll check with him to see if he still has it. I have the wood for the forend that is 1.685 wide at the hinge.mdf777@sbcglobal.net. Thanks Merle

thanx i really appreciate it. this is the first encouragement ive had. i would realy like to get this in firing condition. regards bob [remery@bellsouth.net]