Picked up my "new" double barrel last night at Cabelas. It patterned beautifully using my favorite load of #7 & 1/2s.
Took my dog Weasel and the Nitro Special across the road and chased the rabbits. I got one at about 15 yards with the modified barrel. The other I hit at about 35-40 yards with the full choked barrel.
Made my whole day, always wanted a side by side and to get 2 rabbits with it 1 day after buying it, sa-weet. Now I just need crow season to get here.
-- Edited by Mainehunt on Monday 9th of January 2012 02:16:33 PM
Nice ! ur gona love that nitro, they're a sweet old double. Theres a couple of sites where you can tell year of manufacture by serial number, theres also a lefever forum. My 20 ga is a 1923 & the 16 is 1936. Good luck with ur new toy. Love the black & white pic.
Nice ! ur gona love that nitro, they're a sweet old double. Theres a couple of sites where you can tell year of manufacture by serial number, theres also a lefever forum. My 20 ga is a 1923 & the 16 is 1936. Good luck with ur new toy. Love the black & white pic.
Nice, yes I've been on the website. My Nitro is a 1927.
A friend has a 12 ga nitro for sale. 28" barrels, IC/IC. He's asking $300. I would love to have it to use for skeet.
BTW- I like the blk/wht photo too, but I don't know why it came out in blk/wht instead of color. I took it with my phone and don't remember changing anything.
Kev
-- Edited by Mainehunt on Monday 9th of January 2012 12:09:25 PM
These pictures made me want to go hunt rabbit so bad, but my alarm never went off this morning...
What state are you in Gillespie? You hunting Cottontails?
When I want to get up to hunt or something else really important, I set my regular alarm clock as well as my cell phone to go off. That way, even if I lose electricity at the house, I still have something to wake me up.
In the old days before cell phone alarms, I used to use an old wind up alarm clock as well as the electric one.
Kev, great avatar ! If you can, I'd grab that 12ga, I don't think they made many in i/c, I wonder if someone had it opened up ? Would make a great partridge gun. My son & I got a couple of cottontails yesterday, great spot just could'nt seem to kick them up. Your pics make me want to get up in the Adirondacks for some snowshoes. Jerry
Now I just need crow season to get here.