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The Nitro Special finished up life as an Ithica product, and was a pretty hardy working gun. They will, like everything else, eventually go up in value. I sold a .410 last month at the Baltimore show for a bit over $1200, but I've seen them fetching high teens regularly. Sixteens bring more than twelves, and the price you were quoted may even be lower than most twelves.
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04-09-2013, 05:56 PM | #4 | ||||||
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It's Greentops in Richmond, Va., Andy.
I figured for the money it would be hard to lose anything. As one of my buddies who works there said I couldn't buy a fake double to hang over a fireplace for that.
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04-09-2013, 05:58 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Certainly worth $200 I'd think. Not sure if the wood is original?
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I don't know if it's original or not. May well not be. I'm new at this double gun stuff as you can probably tell. I was just looking over the rack and saw this one and noticed the price. I figured if it locked up tight, and it does, the safety holds firm, and the bores are shiney, there isn't much way to take much of a beating for $200.00. Even if the stock isn't original, it's not bad looking at all.
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04-09-2013, 06:30 PM | #7 | ||||||
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the Lefever Nitro Special started life as an Ithaca product as well
solid, durable "modern" (for its time) design - no relation to the other real Lefevers - Ithaca Gun owned the name and could put it on anything they wanted to (as Savage did with the Fox Model B). I have owned two through the years and never had any trouble with either of them. One was a long barreled 12 - full and fuller - best goose killer I ever owned. I sold it off because I could not shoot steel through it, with the non-tox choices now - I hope someone is still dragging that one through the swamps. may be a tad heavy but if it fits you, you can have fun in the uplands, it it doesn't - that is one you should not feel bad adjusting it until it does
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04-09-2013, 07:40 PM | #8 | ||||||
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You cant go wrong with a 200.00 dollar shooter. Work with bit a little and you will be happy with it. All that realy matters is that it functions properly and it kills game.
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04-09-2013, 08:57 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I've not seen one with a beavertail forend like that, all I've seen had splinter forends, I have had 2, a 12 and 16 and ended up selling them both--should have kept the 16.--why do I do that?
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04-10-2013, 03:46 AM | #10 | ||||||
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I had wondered about the foreend myself. I didn't know what they came with, but the color seems lighter than the buttstock and a beavertail seems kind of upscale for what apparently would have been a fairly inexpensive gun.
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