No. Crescent made inxpensive shotguns under more than 100 different trade names.
AFAIK, no.
Not a machine gun. Utility grade shotgun most likely made by Crescent Arms at the turn of the century.
Arguably, based on the definition of "shotgun" being: "A smoothbore gun that fires shot over short ranges" the first muskets and handcannons were shotguns. The first historical accounts of a firearms and cannons and the like was in China around 700 AD (CE)
"Best" is a subjective term. Applications which one firearm may be ideal for won't be for other firearms, and vice versa.
It's basically a 870 which is unquestionably the best pump shotgun ever made.
No
Thought I finally found an answer to my question? A friend of mine recently acquired an Ever Best .410 shotgun and was trying to find some info. on it. The search continues.
It takes what ever you need.
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I would like to start out with I have never seen a Browning serial number as described by you.Are we sure that you have a Browning 16ga shotgun,or another made shotgun that may have used Browning,s patent?I must admit that I have never seen a straight stocked Browning shotgun or heard of one in my many years of collecting firearms.