I just picked up a LeFever Nitro Special 12 ga. recently and was wondering a couple things.
1. When I look at where it says LeFever Nitro Special I notice that the L is completely missing from LeFever. Am wondering if this was common among LeFever shotguns or a rare deal ?
2. I did some research and from serial number says that it was made in 1922. I plan on using it for shooting clays and bird hunting (pheasant and grouse)using light field loads and target loads (7 & 8's). The barrels are clean with no pitting and had some surface rust that clean up nicely. The wood is in real good shape. My question here is with 30 in barrels and 1 choke and other modified, would it be better to have a gunsmith cut barrels back to 28 in. or would it hurt the value of the gun ?