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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. New England Firearms is 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. In 2007, Marlin was bought up by Remington. 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). Unfortunately, Remington has no interest in continuing production of these .22 and .32 caliber beauties. They ceased production of these models in 2007, and have no plans to start again in the future. Up until 2010 they still maintained a shop that made limited repairs on NEF's, but since new parts are no longer in being made, they had to cease providing this service. (We recently 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.") 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. We still have a decent number of NEF's that we purchased years ago, but we cannot offer them for sale. These last specimens continue to provide the base for our blank-fire theatrical replicas. |
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