Warm weather
Does little to stem the tide of my hibernation instinct. Nearly had the Oglet to school late today, and I was myself late arriving at the orifice. The rain doesn’t help either.
Saturday we looked at a remington 1895 double, a 12 gauge in really beautiful shape, with ejectors. it was $250.
I’m not as afraid of shooting Damascus barrels as others, and these were in pristine condition, with wonderfully smooth and clean bores. The pattern was also spectacular. I couldn’t confirm if the ejectors worked because they didn’t have a pair of 12 gauge snapcaps.
I have to tell you, I lusted after it. And then I thought about the lefever in the cabinet back home.
Dad’s shotgun, the 20 I bought for him all those years ago. metal great, stock OK but not great. So I though, rather than add a shotgun to my already burgeoning collection I would put mine back right. I ordered new wood from Gunstocks inc, and last night I disassembled the action to confirm it’s function. This generation of LeFever is actually ithaca, which is a well made middle of the road gun. I intend to spend some time making the mechanicals perfect, and I will go on from there. I may post youtube video, I may just post some pictures of the work I do to it to get it functional.
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“remington 1895 double, a 12 gauge in really beautiful shape, with ejectors. it was $250.”
Get your butt back and buy it! Sounds like a deal just too good to pass up. If I was within 500 miles of you, I’d try to get it myself.
Remember the rule of thumb for a true gun aficionado:
“One firearm for every year of your age.”
Just reminding you…
Would be great to see pictures of how your Dad’s gun works out.
“One firearm for every year of your age.†Well, I oghta back off some then.
mkl said:
“One firearm for every year of your age.â€
No, the rule is, “if you know how many guns you have, you don’t have enough”.
I have an old LeFever 12ga double, but unfortunately, someone cut it down to make it into a “coach gun” for CASS. Of course, that’s why I was able to buy it for $200.00.
I’ve always wondered if you could dye penetrant test a Damascus barrel to see if there are impending separations? O maybe mag particle test with a DC yoke?
Og,
I just read in one of the latest gun magazines from Terry Weiland or maybe John Barsness that one of the possible reasons that they may fail is from scraping the solder out of the corner between the barrel and the rib. The chisel creates deep crack-like scratch that acts likes a stress rise….BOOM!
Makes sense to me.
Jdunmeyer: Is it an “Old” old lefever, or a Nitro Special? There’s a nitro on Guns International with two barrels, you could end up with two guns.