When I got a chance at a squirrel, I would slip the slugs out and slide in some seven-and-a-half shells. It has a single extractor, no ejectors.īreaking the barrels open allows loading & unloading, cocks the internal hammers, and operates the single extractor, which pulls the rear of both shells backwards to aid in removing them.

I also learned how to handle a fairly long gun this shotgun is not very large, but it does have 26-inch barrels.ĭad made me carry this gun broken open for safety’s sake, and he also advised that I keep shells in the chambers… so I learned the hard way how easy it is to lose 410 shotgun shells and have to backtrack 1/4 mile or more to find them. This is a view I saw an awful lot when I was 11 and 12 years old. To little ol’ me, this was one heck of a fine firearm, and I was extremely proud of it.

Which made it heart-breaking when some scumbag stole it because I’d loved it so much I had it on display in a gun rack on the wall of my room in Mom & Dad’s house when I was 17 years old.

Lefever nitro special shotgun