Not as stout as the one that the gun originally came with. Know that the firing pin you receive is an aftermarket made product and Since this gun was only in need of a firing pin, I ordered one up. Was the leader in having the most available parts that I could find. Other than that, the gun was in rather decent shape for its age.Ī quick check of parts house resources found that many of the partsĪre still available but not all of them. Stock bolt was a hardware store galvanized screw bolt with a galvanized The forend is a wide beavertail andīoth the buttstock and forend appear to have been "fitted" to Set this gun is now sporting found that it probably did not come on it Kept the barrel length legal! Since the barrels were cut down, theĬhokes are as open as the bore is (no choke). It seems cutting theīarrels down on these old guns is less of an exception. To a bulged or badly dented barrel in the past. The gun is a 12 gauge, and, ofĬourse, the barrels were cut down shorter (20 5/8") most likely due Special" imprinted on the right barrel and "Lefever Arms Co., Looking at the barrels, I found "Lefever Nitro
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On it is 124,xxx and this serial number was found on the receiver,īarrels, forend iron, and on the bottom of the top lever, so they all Again, thereĪre questions about serial number dating all Lefever guns, so this is aīest-estimate for this shotgun and seems reasonable. The shotgun on my bench dates it at being produced in 1923. Without going into any more detail about that, the serial number of Sometime after that, Ithaca came into the picture and produced A few years after that, he was bought out and the Lefever ArmsĬompany was then created. The first successful hammerless shotgun manufactured in the United One of his designs, and around 1879 becomes D. Himself as a gun maker around 1869, later received a Lefever patent for In between that time, he essentially established In Hopewell, New York in 1835 and he passed on in 1906 while living in That being said, it seems clear that Daniel Myron Lefever was born However, Iĭid see one book about the Lefever for sale on listed for So, I was reluctant to insert that information here. Is a lack of factual information about a company or a specific line ofįirearms, it opens the door to assumptions and sometimes unsupportedįacts. Lefever guns, some accurate and some not so accurate. There are a few write-ups I ran across about the On the Numrich Gun Parts website and used those to identify each partįor this article. In the end, I found all of the naming conventions for each part With drawings of the parts listed and some names associated with those I did, however, find partial parts listings for the gun
I found no schematic that shows and lists every part for The gun itself? It celebrated its 96th birthday as ofĭoing some research on this specific model didn't turn up very This gun had been in his family the past 80 years Were that the left firing pin was broken, the barrels were looseįitting, and that my customer wanted me to go through it to determine if
Life of their own when working on them, I knew the customer well and Although these shotguns can sometimes take on a I recently took in a Lefever Nitro Special double shotgun for some APA style: Lefever Shotguns: Info on working the Lefever Nitro Special double shotgun.Lefever Shotguns: Info on working the Lefever Nitro Special double shotgun." Retrieved from
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