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] Date Posted:16:35:43 05/26/04 Wed In reply to:
Roy
's message, "Re: Volunteer Arms Co." on 16:33:49 06/02/03 Mon
My grandpa had a 16 gauge single barrell shotgun. The only thing on it was Volunteer Arms Co. It was the first gun thatI ever fired when I was about 10 years old, as well I bagged my first squirrell with it. My Dad came in pocession of it when grandpa passed on and now I have it. I don't know how old it is but I'm 52 and grandpa had it as far back as I can remember. Do you have any ideal on its age and do you think it could be one of these Iver Johnsons???
>Volunteer Arms Co. was a trade name of Belknap
>Hardware and Manufacturing, a large wholesale/retail
>in Louisville, KY. It operated under that name from
>1907 until 1986. The Volunteer Arms Co single barrel
>shotguns were actually the Iver Johnson Champion
>model. The Champion was manufactured from c. 1909
>until the mid 1970's.
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Date Posted:19:17:55 05/26/04 Wed
That would be a pretty good guess. By estimating 27-28 years between generations, your grandpa would have been born in the mid 1890's and could have bought a shotgun around 1910-1920. You might search online auctions for IJ single shots and compare yours to the pictures. Other possibilities are Crescent, Davis, and Stevens. They all made trade-name guns for hardware and general mercantile stores.
