I have Granddad's E Grade Lefever pigeon gun, special ordered, probably by him, in 1887. By 1887, he was 31 years old, a successful businessman in Hazleton, PA. There would be no reason, in my mind, that he would buy a used gun that just happened to be built as a pigeon gun. He was a cafe keeper and operated a pigeon shooting operation on Pine Street in Hazleton Heights. Sure, the gun could have been someone else's gun, but I'm fairly comfortable that it was his from birth. There is no way I can document this gun as a one owner-one family gun, except that my Dad, born in 1903, and his brother, born in 1899, told me that the Lefever is the only gun they remember their father ever shooting. Too darn bad it isn't a Parker. Granddad used the Lefever from 1887 to 1929, 42 years, a long time. I've used my first Parker since 1960, 51 years. My Dad never owned a Parker or a Lefever, unfortunately.
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