Lefever DS 16 - Page 2

Garhart Stephenson · 03-06-2020, 03:25 PM

I have one of these in 16 also. 26" barrels, SK & I/M. I have taken a lot of birds with the 6 lb. wonder. I have not owned many firearms that I like as much.

It is now in need of restocking, so it will become an upgrade project. The stock had been repaired when I purchased it, but I knew that eventually the the repair would begin to fail. After a tremendous amount of use, it has. It's still together, but splitting apart on one side. I have extra walnut.

Researcher · 03-06-2020, 04:37 PM

A Durston Special is a good starting point for a project. The late Bill Harvey started here with 20-gauge with a blown barrel. It is now a 28-gauge.

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OH Osthaus · 03-06-2020, 05:41 PM

makes sense-

it is a blank canvas to start with

Harold Pickens · 03-06-2020, 06:01 PM

A DS 16 is something I keep an eye out for at the local gun shows. Saw a couple in the past 6 mo. but they either had blued frames, or polished to silver frames. Brian had a really nice 12 ga sold recently, but I'm just not a 12 ga guy.
A 30" DS would be a nice find. The book lists 32" also, but don't know if they made those in 20 and 16.

B. Dudley · 03-06-2020, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

A DS 16 is something I keep an eye out for at the local gun shows. Saw a couple in the past 6 mo. but they either had blued frames, or polished to silver frames. Brian had a really nice 12 ga sold recently, but I'm just not a 12 ga guy.
A 30" DS would be a nice find. The book lists 32" also, but don't know if they made those in 20 and 16.

I personally own a much nicer DS than that one I recently sold. At least in my opinion. I let it go once and was able to get it back. It would be hard to let it go again.

Though I don't shoot it much anymore. It is just too light to shoot a lot of rounds with, for me at least. I may just hunt with it more.

Garhart Stephenson · 03-06-2020, 07:15 PM

This is the nicest DS I own. Somebody sent her to Germany for serious decoration once upon a time. It came to me at an outstanding price, in need of serious internal work. I was happy to spend 4 1/2 hours carefully hand fitting the mismatched parts. As you can see, she's no gun safe queen.
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B. Dudley · 03-06-2020, 08:28 PM

There is another one similar to that out there. German embellished and even a second set of barrels made for it from scratch. That was a feat for sure for them to do that.

charlie cleveland · 03-07-2020, 07:51 PM

i have a ds 20 ga with 28 inch barrels it too is very light with straight stock...charlie