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KY Jon, sorry if my "bastard" Lefever offended you. LOL!
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I like it myself. However it pretty much is an Ithica. Still a nice gun, still has a lot of history and tradition behind it. I wouldn't call it a "bastard" I would call it a working mans gun.
For those who have fought for it Freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.
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I was just making a little joke as KY Jon came across as a Lefever purist. My bad. LOL.
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It is not a bastard anymore than the Savage Fox Model B guns are a bastard. The company made a lower grade gun and used the name from a higher grade gun to give it a little more appeal. I suspect this it the way they, Ithaca, saw to recover some of their investment they had from buying out the Lefever company. They never seemed to have made many, if any new Lefever guns from scratch, it looks like they just used up inventory of parts to assemble guns until they were all gone. Savage used the "Fox" name, on a lower grade gun in the 40's to give it more appeal later.
It is, what it is. A solid shooter in very nice condition. Not a mint gun or a extremely rare gun but a very nice gun. It is like finding a '62 Chevy Impala in nice condition. Not too many around, but it is still not a '62 Vette. The vette in this case would be a Ithaca NID in grade 4 or 5 in the same condition. But most vettes these days are being sold to old men, wanting to be young again, not young men without money. I suspect the same thing occurred back then when young men had little money and bought Nitro Specials because the Parkers, Smiths and Ithacas grade 5's were beyond their means.
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KY Jon, I agree, definitely a working mans gun. From what I have seen, that's why the single trigger is kind of a rarity, most places that ordered the nitro specials to sell didn't choose that extra 5.00 option so they could keep the price down. Glad you didn't take offense to my joking.
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Look at a picture of Chuck's 410 Nitro, that's a pretty nice gun by anyone's standards. I still think they are the best deal on the market for the older American guns. And being an Ithaca, they're virtually indestructible.
I don't like that single trigger though a great feature for a collector, not so good for a hunter or shooter.
All the best
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I was thinking the single trigger guns may be collectable but as treblig says, likely not all that good for the shooter.
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Look at a picture of Chuck's 410 Nitro, that's a pretty nice gun by anyone's standards. I still think they are the best deal on the market for the older American guns. ... Especially, since it was what he's asking for this one.
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