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well, if im doing something wrong, im sure i will be told. but if this is the way its done...here goes.
got a grade a? post it here and tell us all about it!
i use to have one. i sold it in 1999. the wife wanted an antique chandelier, so i let it go.
it was a 28" mod/full, field stock with org buttplate, solid rib, double beads, sst, btfa.
it had doubling issues that required some good ole 'smithing to rectify, but it was one of those guns that just fit (me) perfectly. but some day, i will have another one.
tempt me. show me yours!
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bobski, I hope you mean ithaca Lefever A grades because I am embarrassed to admit I have no LAC grade A's. This one is a 20ga with 26" barrels choked mod/full. It was my 1st "good" double bought from the guy in Cape Girardoux Missouri before it became Jeff's Outfitters...Geo 
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remember, im taking the learning position here, so im always open to being corrected, but wasnt lefever just lefever in 1937?
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Nah, Lefever was sold to ithaca in 1916. Ithaca sold the remaining stock on hand and in the '20s brought out the economy model Lefever Nitro Express guns. In the '30s they introduced the higher quality A grade series which included several variations including the one i posted a picture of...Geo
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bingo....the education begins!
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It was my 1st "good" double bought from the guy in Cape Girardoux Missouri before it became Jeff's Outfitters. ] Thad Scott? SRH
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No Stan I think it was called Cape Outfitters but I cannot remember the owner's name. Someone'll come up with it...Geo
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does anyone have any production run numbers on grade a's?
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According to my copy of Walt Snyder's bible on Ithaca "The Ithaca Gun, from the beginning", there were a total of fewer than 2,500 of the "A" grade guns built in all gauges...Geo
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now you know why i like them.
if anyone has any good leads on 16ga and 20ga skeet guns, let me know.
vent ribs would be a find.
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