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An American Classic...maybe there will be one under your Christmas tree.    Lefever Optimus.
Last edited by Optimusdude; 12/05/06 06:08 PM.
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One incredible combination of steel and wood. I'll check the tree early on Christmas morning. Simply beautiful!
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not in my lifetime...... I can only wish.
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I would be a good boy for that gun. I would be a bad boy for that gun also if that would help.
I looked at a 16 gauge version a few months ago. It was half an ounce too light. That is the weight of the stack of hundreds that it would have cost. Still, if that gun could have been improved in any way it is beyond me how, unless it would have been for a second set of barrels so it could have handled all my upland shooting. They are extremely nice in every way. Lefever knew how to make a "Best" as good as anyone.
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If he'd made thousands, it wouldn't be optimum [sic} but it would be ideal. In fact he did. Happy at my end of the alphabet and just as happy someone else is responsible for that one!
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I love what Uncle Dan did with the high grade guns. No other American maker did as much to make please the customer in my opinion. Notice the metal work and sculpting.
KyJon- safe to assume the "16ga version" you saw was at Jacqua's?
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Yes, was tempted to a far higher degree than I would like to admit. But the problem is that I can not use that gun for most of my hunting na dI do not need a trophy queen. Already have my wife. But if it had been a 20 I suspect it would have come home come He.. or high water. There is rare, rarer and who know if I would ever see another one again.
When I look at what more than a few Parkers are selling for the asking price on the Lefever does not seem that bad. Still $30-35,000 plus for any gun gives me reason to stop and think. I bought a F grade 1100 for 1/10-th amount and had a real hard time justifing any reason for the deal beyond it also is rare and the second one ever made in that grade and unfired in the original box. Passed on the first ever made one month later for less money.But a F grade 1100 is nothing next to one of these Lefevers. Not a patch.
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What a beauty!! Serial # ?
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This gun has shot thousands and thousands of birds. She has been used and taken well care of. Just the way you like to find them. Serial # is 51k range.
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.....dude,
Nice pics. I fell in love with the one that was up at Bonham's several months back. That was a dream gun and someone stole it that day. Lucky for my wife I was away on a business trip that morning. That "broad' could have got me in a great deal of trouble!!!!
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