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Old 06-08-2010, 03:06 PM
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S&W bought the Noble tooling, machinery and parts, etc. in 1969, when Noble went out of business, and came out first with the S&W "Eastfield" model, which was was a design improvment to the Noble gun in 1972. This was soon changed to the Models 916 and 916A and continued until 1980 when the gun was dropped and a new model was made in Japan for S&W. It was initially called the Model 1000P as it was a pump variety of the model 1000 semi-auto shotgun. This caused market confusion, so the Model name was changed to Model 3000, and that continued until S&W stopped long gun production in 1984. 916s were made with blue finish, except for a few made with a stainless steel finish, however those are not true stainless steel guns, just finished in stainless steel. Ed. #15
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