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Originally Posted by Eldon Goddard
I got to handle my neighbors O grade DM Lefever a couple of months back. First Lefever I have ever handled, pretty rare on this side of the country. Very nice gun, unfortunately the right barrel is blown. Made my week to see it.
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Lefevers have a problem. The company was bought and the gun morphed into a rather plain box lock gun. So early Lefevers are not like the later ones which were made into the 1940s. You want the side lock gun; or at least I do. Not sure when they stopped making them, but I think, not long after Uncle Dan left the company in 1901 or 02. I guess he was quite a character and difficult to get along with.
I read that Lefevers were the first hammerless shotgun. Anyway, I enjoy my very standard "I" grade which was a hardware store gun when it came out.