Long Tall LeFever!

[Ken Snyder]

Originally Posted by Nick de Guerre

The Galazan drop in gauge is indeed handy...although I have not to date seen a 12 choked that tightly.

The good news is the gun appears correct, as there are quite a few straight stocked Lefever's around that were restocked to guns originally furnished with pistol grips. The trigger guard is the dead giveaway in such instances, as the straight variety should extend way down the underside of the stock...as yours does. On pistol grip guns the guard metal terminates under the lip of the grip cap on early guns, and in front of the cap on later guns.

This is a nice find, with the less common thick butt plate. Congrats.

NDG

NDG is exactly correct regarding the tang and identifying restocks. We also see some fewer LAC factory stocked examples of tangs that appear to have started out as the shorter rounded lower profile PG tangs and had additional steel grafted to create an extension for SG, as is evident on #48944. Run short and improvise to fill an order. Not always readily apparent when a gun is higher condition - but when finishes wear... Enlarge the photo you will see the faint curved line of the original lower tang to the left of the SN# and a circular pin weld locking the scarf joint to the left of that.

Ken