doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Imagine this ad...

for the new Lefever Legacy (my idea for the name of a new Lefever made with today's materials):

The phrase "They don't make them like that anymore" no longer applies. The new Lefever Legacy is an entirely new shotgun built in America to exceed the quality and craftsmanship Daniel M. Lefever's famous shotguns were known for in the early 1900's, at a price everyone can afford.

Identical in appearance, function, and handling qualities to early Lefever sideplated boxlocks, the new Lefever Legacy has engraved sideplates and receiver in various grades, color case hardening, Lefever's famous cocking hook, and cocking indicators, and is made with today's finest steels designed to digest any modern load with aplomb. Frame-specific lightweight upland models in 16 and 20 ga. are available, as well as a beavertail forend heavy duck model in 12 and 10ga.

Available in double trigger models with pistol grip or english stock, in every gauge from .410 through 10 ga, with thin-walled choke tubes to avoid unsightly barrel bulges as seen in inferior guns. In stock and ready for immediate delivery, the new Lefever Legacy is not a reproduction, but an improvement on the original guns so highly revered by hunters and collectors in the know.

Some might call this statement blaspheme. We call it the truth. Order yours today.
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I can imagine the ad. If only someone would build the gun. I can dream can't I ?

Sure...........I'll take 2 in each ga. and grade!

"Between the thought and the action falls the shadow."

Sounds like the RBL - I'll pass!

Lowell, the RBL would have to be in stock and available for delivery to compare the two.

+1

Loose the choke tubes, and I'll place my order. :-)

And give it a better top-lever spring; about the only needed improvement i have encounterd.

Better get a really good stockist, too. ;~`)

Otherwise? Some classic and appropriate engraving, period.

Bag the gold-crusted excess and Druidic manifestations which seem to be draped onto too many similar contemporary revival efforts. Gold, small and tasteful, of true artistic merit, is fine to OK. Examples regularly have been posted here by resident craftsmen.

However, gold with the style and profusion of disco-era neck chains, hammered on everyfrxxing-where, is hideous. Better to have plain metal with good case colors, than the pimped out pieces apparently designed for either new Oklahoma oil money or Middle Eastern younger sons.

Yup: go Lefever. Ye Aulde and Late Klunkster had stated several times that he considered the sideplate LeFevers to be the best finished American gun, in and out.

How about a trial run of 100 in 28 ga.? Half with 28" barrels and the second half with 30" barrels. When these sell the second trial could be in 16. That would decrease my bank account by a decent amount. But then again I would be getting just what I desire and it would be a Lefever. Not some Itiaian made, side plated boxlock wantabe labeled Lefever.

At a price everyone could afford? It will say "Made in China" all over it.

Be careful what you wish for....
Best,
Ted