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What is "NEF"?!?
N.E.F. stands for "New England Firearms", and for our purposes identifies a certain starter pistol that we use as the working mechanism for the majority of our blank-firing replicas. NEF's have long been recognized as the finest starter pistols ever made. The very rugged yet simple construction give them unsurpassed reliability and survivability under the harshest field conditions. For the same reason, we have depended on them when we build our blank-firing replicas. Actors are notoriously hard on any prop with moving parts, and half of our business would disappear if we couldn't have these little workhorses providing the sound and fury. No other starter pistol can take its place (believe me, we've tried). New England Firearms was a trademark of H & R Firearms Company, so the starter pistols may be marked "NEF" or "H&R 1871". In 2000, H & R was sold to Marlin Firearms. Then in 2007, Marlin was bought up by Remington. Unfortunately, Remington had no interest in continuing production of these .22 and .32 caliber beauties. They ceased production of these models in 2007, including parts, and have no plans to start again in the future. Up until 2010 they maintained a shop that made repairs to NEF's, using the last leftover parts. (That summer we sent twenty pistols to them for repair. Four of them they could fix; as for the other sixteen, it was "sorry, Jack, out of luck."). By October they ran out of parts, and ceased providing this service altogether. It may be possible to find a local gunsmith who is willing to fabricate a necessary part and get your broken NEF to work again. But for the most part once these break-down, they are irreparable and irreplaceable. On the plus side, they are so much more reliable than anything on the market. If you clean and oil your pistol, it should last your lifetime. We still have a decent number of NEF's that we purchased years ago, and these last specimens continue to provide the base for our blank-fire theatrical replicas. [They are so important to us that on occasion we will sell a brand-new still in the original box .22 cal NEF ... but for $1,315 each. On the other hand, our used .32 cal models can be purchased for $162 .] |
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