Posted by Dick Miller on March 25, 2017, 1:05 pm, in reply to "16ga Field dilemma "
Jamie, the "S" in the prefix is the giveaway. Your gun is a 1948 gun, and the "S" stands for L C Smith Gun Co, the successor in 1945 to Hunter Arms. As an aside, your gun most likely has 2-3/4" chambers instead of the old 2-9/16" ones.