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OWD, this point of view is from the "Cheap Gun Buyer's Manual" Now, if you are selling, you just reverse it. I am sure Amarillo Mike's gun was pryed [sp?] apart at the muzzle and then the screwdriver marks filed off a sixteenth or so. Nice job of aging the muzzles, though.

We have a winner! The gun shipped from the factory with 30" barrels - so CJ is the winner. I take the 30" to be nominal.

OWD I think Daryl is picking at me - talking about tweaking the barrels with a screwdriver and file because I just got the gun (subject to the barrels being right). Again you would think at his age he would be too mature to suffer "sour grapes". And to think of all the time I have spent advising him on his double collection - especially the Lefevers.

CJ if you would PM me your address and credit card number and 3 or 4 digit verification number I will get the picture headed your way. I will send it United States Postal Service Certified Mail, insured for $2,000. I think $85 for handling and $35 for the certified mail will cover it. Whatever the actual charge is what I will charge your card for.

It surprised me how many of the posted guns came out lettered and the barrels don't touch. One more of my "certainties" has been proved wrong.

Thanks to everyone for participating and thanks to Craig and Brian for the pictures.

I can't take pictures of muzzles to save my life but I am going to go take pictures of the muzzles on my three Lefevers and post them on OWDs thread about barrels that don't touch. Cause two of them don't for sure and I am not sure about the other.

JOe and Chuck yall were wrong wrong wrong! But if you had been right I would have given you your choice between the picture and an all-expense paid 7 day quail hunt on my bird lease. You could have stayed at my house, we would have steak and lobster every night (all on me), and I would have paid for all the alcohol you could drink and all the lap dances you could stand at the gentleman's club.

Best,

Mike

Oh - OK, I can be a bit slow.

But it would explain why there are so many Lefevers out there that seem to have had a tiny bit taken off the end, leaving the bbls an odd length.

Here's an example:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/conten...erarchyId=11657

Who the heck knocks 3/4" off of a set of bbls? Why not take all the way back to 29" or to 28"? And look at the condition of that gun. Do you really think it was used all that hard?

AM - I would love to collect more pics for that Lefever string. I'm starting a blog and that is going to be one of my first posts. If you can, please mic your bbls and include the results. I would love to come up with a picture of how the chokes in old Lefevers look.

Thanks

OWD

OWD I will.

Certainly it seems like there are a lot of Lefevers that the barrels don't touch.

First I have to call Joe Wood and ask him how to get a good pictures of muzzles. I have taken at least fifty pictures of muzzles and it was a complete waste of electrons and time.

Best,

Mike

Make sure your auto focus locks on the tip of the bbls.

With a little compact digital, I find the best thing to do it hold the camera way back and use the zoom to get in close. Make sure the tip of the bbls is dead smack in the center of the frame, hold steady, and fire away.

With auto focus, its easy for the camera to lock on to something other than the tip of the bbls.


OWD

OWD, odds are that the Lefever at Cabela's began life with 32" tubes.

Dang! I coulda had that ritzy hunt trip. A.M. please send pix of the hunting lodge, catered dinners, and birdboys fetching birds. Possibly, I could book a reservation?

HomelessJoe,
Nice photograph, is that an egg cup or a salt shaker perched on the rib?
Very sad to see that the American guntrade couldn't regulate barrels correctly.
Unlike us Super Chaps over here that set the standard for perfection and continue to do so.
God we are good, just off to preen myself and have a lay down before a hard day at the bench creating another work of art.

I didn't say they were cut. So is there some way I can win a sleepover out of all this?......................Denny Crane