NICE DOGS-LEFEVER EE

[Nick de Guerre]

The following each reference different comments above:

1. There is no such thing as an "off-face" Lefever. Only one with socket ball not properly adjusted.
2. Not Loy. Pointer's head is wrong. Loy's pointers, and Glahn's setters, are generally pretty easy to pick out when you've seen enough. There are a number of old threads in the DGJ forum with pics.
3. The vast majority of E grades from the late 30k until the end have a single "window" with a pointer on one side, and a setter on the other. Pointers and setters are about equally represented on Lefevers fom any era. Sub-gauges can have a variety of birds, but also snakes, rabbits and squirrels. Rarely seen, is a deer, bear, and even hunters (men).

NDG

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Nick de Guerre

The following each reference different comments above:
1. There is no such thing as an "off-face" Lefever. Only one with socket ball not properly adjusted.
NDG

Yes there is such thing as an "off-face" Lefever. When moving the socket ball and the barrels do not line up with the breech and the ejectors don't work, it is not work for the amateur gunsmith or the faint at heart. It took someone far better than me to take care of a "socket ball not properly adjusted." I can tell by the amount of machinist/layout dye left on the barrels and rib extension that it was not a simple task. The gun had been shot extensively while loose and with the ejectors never properly working.