This rifle is similar to the Stevens 87A that I owned as a young teen in Waterville, Maine. It was quite reliable for a while, but it kind-of stopped shooting well and the feed mechanism failed to work. The steel seemed to be quite soft and the bore wore out after a few thousand rounds. The action is kind of clunky, since after firing a shot, the bolt stops in the rearward rest point until the trigger is released, then it goes forward, picking up a round from the tubular mag system and the bolt chambers the round. Every shot and round-feed is a clunk-clunk.
The feed mechanism failed on mine and I couldn't find parts at the time. Metals in the action appeared to be soft. The rifle was never very accurate, but okay for shooting rats in the open pit dumps we, as teens, love to shoot in and kill rats.
After a while, I decided to shoot the rifle to see how accurate it was with an old Mossberg scope on it and was discouraged that it could barely hit a 6-inch circle at about 40 yards. Accurate enough for rats the dump, but not conducive to hitting anything beyond 50 yards or so.
I traded it in on a Remington pump .22 LR and was fairly happy for a while, but was earning a bit more money and kept trading up for a few years.
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