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I always thought the Lefever A Grade, and Ithace NID has more in common than the Nitro's......... Always put the Nitros in same category as 311, BSE, Win 24's..... A step below the field grade guns of Ithaca, LC Smith, Fox, Parker, etc....
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1915-16 Catalog Small Gauge Loaded Shells.jpeg J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. claimed their No. 106/108 single as the first .410-bore gun in North America. Catalog No. 54, No. 106 & 108.jpeg However, just to muddy the waters, the 1910 Harrington & Richardson catalog offers their Model 1905 for the .410 Eley -- H&R 1910 Catalog Model 1905.jpg For a couple of decades prior, out mail order houses, importers and our manufacturers of small single barrels offered guns for the .44-40 shot and .44XL -- .44 shot cartridges.jpg Little Ladies .44 Caliber Shotgun 1902.jpg Imported little guns 1912 SD&G Catalogue.jpg Many of these imported JABCs (Just Another Belgian Clunkers) had twist barrels. Many of the .44XL guns have been bored out to take .410-bore shells. If they have .44" bores like my H & R Model 1905 -- Model 1905 02.JPG Model 1905 03.JPG they couldn't have had much of a gas seal with the old fiber wads. |
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05-20-2020, 11:03 PM | #35 | ||||||
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I too have a stevens 410 single barrel with 44 caliber marked on it...some good info here...how about the imitatin twist steel barrels..i have heard of this before but never seen it in writing...charlie
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05-22-2020, 09:51 AM | #36 | ||||||
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My opening day gun is a Nitro Express .410
LFNE Doves.jpg Lefever NE .410.jpg This is my backyard Eurasion dove shoot. |
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05-22-2020, 10:10 AM | #37 | ||||||
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Not a very good picture, but I think this gives a good feel for the little dove killer
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05-22-2020, 11:09 AM | #38 | ||||||
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the little 410 doubles are the best...charlie
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05-22-2020, 01:19 PM | #39 | ||||||
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Some of these little "entry-level" .410-bore doubles getting are pretty spendy!! Steve B. has a fully optioned Lefever A-Grade listed at $12,500! In 1984 I handled a similar one at the Kittery Trading Post with $750 on the tag and I didn't buy it.
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05-24-2020, 07:57 AM | #40 | ||||||
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My first shotgun was a single barrel 410 ga Springfield with plastic stock and fore end. Hunted rabbits with it at age 13. Only shot it for one year till my dad let me shoot his Parker 16 ga. While over the years I have acquired and shot Brownings, Berettas, Winchesters and Ithaca shotguns, I've always returned to my Parkers. But recently I purchased from Dean R. a near mint 20 ga Fox Sterlingworth, and have not touched any of my Parkers since. I must be loosing it...
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