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Just too possession of a Model 5100 sxs Stevens from an internet sales. Upon inspection I have found that the lever is on the left side of center. The gun seems tight with the forearm off. I bought this gun as a loaner gun and as a spare gun to take on trips, a gun that I could leave in the pickup on a lonely back road and not worry too much about someone stealing. Should I be worried about the lever on a gun that will probably not see much action? The gun appears other wise to be a good condition with a few handling marks and a fair amount of case colors on it.
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I think that lever stuff are for old wives tales only.
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If the gun is on the face, it's on the face. If you detect no play and can see no gap between the barrels and the action face when held up to a strong light, you and the gun are fine.
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If on face keep the gun. Not a top level high grade gun anyways and if it is tight and on face what more do you want? It sounds like a loaner gun to me and will see very limited use.
I use to have a Mossberg 500 that was s gun that was kept in the duck boat all the time for a loaner. Gave it to a hunting buddy one day when his new auto died in 10 degree weather. He bitched that he could not pump a pump gun. I told him then he had a nice single shot and he should make his first shot count. After questioning my parentage he learned to shuck a pump gun. That Mossberg got used dozens of times and I bet has killed 100 ducks and geese over the years. A nice loaner has saved many a hunters days in my life. A few times my own hunting day.
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> Jim Legg <
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I had a 5100 or a 311 with bad lever position. One day, I noticed that the extension rib protruded slightly from the top surface of the receiver. With the barrels removed, I slapped the top surface of the extension rib with a plastic hammer. When the barrels were reinstalled on the action, the extension rib was flush with the top surface of the receiver and the lever was back in proper position.
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Was going to tell the same story eightbore did. I used an aluminum hammer. Same result.
Best,
Ted
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Well let's see now. The locking bolt on these Stevens guns is wedge shaped engaging the slot in the rib extension from the left. The lower surface has the wedge to compensate for wear so as the actual bolting surface wears the lever comes further around to take it up. By peening down the top portion of the rib the bolt is hindered from going as far & while it has improved the "Cosmetics" of the gun the bbls are actually not being drawn down as far into the frame, as this is determined by the "Lower" part of the extension. I will take good note of this & not get either of you to work on a gun of mine.
Miller/TN
I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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