Timber Frame Tools

Having had a love of old tools for many years it is probably no surprise that I also like old firearms.  I am not a hunter, I am not opposed to hunting, it just doesn’t suit me.  I am also not a prepper, survivalist, or delta force wanna be.  I am just an older guy […]

I own a 16 ga Lefever Nitro Special  that is my favorite shotgun for shooting sporting clays, but it costs me about 50% more for 16 gauge ammo than 12 or 20 ga and the choices of type are also more limited.  So I bid on an auction for a 1929 20 ga version of […]

A few months back I purchased an old 20 gauge Lefever Nitro Special shotgun.  As is often the  case, somebody had cut the stock down in length to fit a child.  It was too short for me, and my son has been using the gun when we shoot clays and his arms are longer than […]

I recently bought a 94 yr old shotgun.  It was in pretty bad shape.  Over the years, the checkering on the stock had been worn, sanded, refinished until there was only the faintest trace of it remaining.  In most places you could see the dark lines, but could not even feel them with a fingernail.  […]

I bought a used 95 yr old shotgun from an auction that was in pretty bad shape.  Nothing catastrophic, but needed some help.  One of the issues, was a crack in the forend.  As a woodworker I thought “I can fix this!” I knew that if worse came to worse I could put a dowel […]

My son and I were shooting sporting clays the other day and his 20ga Lefever Nitro Special (side by side) suddenly stopped closing correctly.  The forend was loose, and that prevents the gun remaining together when opened.  For safety, we stopped shooting it until we could figure out what was wrong. The the bottom rib […]

I bought another of my favorite shotgun, the Ithaca Lefever Nitro Special  in an online auction recently.  I now own 4.  One in every length they made 26″, 28″ and 30″.  This particular one was made in  1926.  It is a 20 gauge with 26″ barrels.  It was in pretty good shape.  My only hesitation […]