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I took apart a Nitro 12ga years ago, made this tool to get the springs back in, crude but worked. Welcome to borrow it if you'd like.  
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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Nitro Specials had three frame sizes, one for the 12 gauge, one for the 20 and 16 gauge and one for the 410.
The 16 gauge Nitro Specials are very light but in my limited sample of the Nitro Special in other gauges they are on the heavy side.
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I handled a 20 gauge Nitro that must have been 7 lbs at the range a while back. The 12s all seem to be heavy. I wonder if the factory figured the folks buying the guns were apt to feed them the heaviest loads they could buy?
My 16 Nitro is 6lbs, 2ozs, seems about a perfect compromise for the use it gets from me. I sure like dragging that old guy out.
Best,
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I agree completely. The 16 gauge Nitro Special is the one to get. All the other gauges, the ones I've handled anyway, live up to the 'Hardware store' reputation, thick and heavy.
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I like Nitros as a rough and ready rainy day gun. Solid and capable of handling real heavy loads. I would not mind shooting one as a backup gun duck hunting. I use to keep a Mossberg 500 in my duck boat, year around as a emergency backup gun. Funny how many people looked down their nose at that Mossberg until their gun died. It looked a lot better then. They even figured out how to pump it most of the time.
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I highly suspect the "Frame" is the same on all Nitro's with variations being in firing pin spacing, size of standing breech & barrel weights. I recently handled a 20 gauge Nitro which, although I did get to weigh it I highly suspect by the way it handles was much closer to 6 than 7 pounds. It belonged to my Physical Therapist. A former co-worker had a 16 gauge Nitro which I don't know the weight of but was quite light as well.
Miller/TN
I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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My A Grade Model 6 .410 comes in at right about 5- pounds. I am currently working on an Ithaca Lefever article for the DGJ and I will check some parts lists to see if hammers are gauge dependent. 
Last edited by Walter C. Snyder; 02/11/18 10:11 PM.
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I have a 1926 Ithaca Lefever parts list. Hammer price was $1.00. No distinction for size or whether left or right. As the gauge increased, the angle of the firing pins must have changed. Les Hovencamp, ex-service manager at IGC and owner of Diamond Gunsmithing works on these and would be the definitive authority on Ithaca Lefevers
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