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Rem1889SXS by Doug Hansen, on Flickr

I just love all the thought that was put into making this Remington Arms Co. piece alone. It's a good example of what makes older firearms so special and how sometimes it is the little things that matter.]]>
Rem1889SXS by Doug Hansen, on Flickr

I just love all the thought that was put into making this Remington Arms Co. piece alone. It's a good example of what makes older firearms so special and how sometimes it is the little things that matter.]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-304.html Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:15:44 -0600 Caprock]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-304.html
Some years ago I picked up this 1906 made 97 for the obvious....knockout wood. Its not a trap grade but sure has the makings. In fact not sure I've seen better wood on a 97.

This pic also shows an ole N.R. Davis hammer double and a Natchez bowie I made up with a cold browned blade (I don't know why...was browning a barrel and thought well why not?)

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Some years ago I picked up this 1906 made 97 for the obvious....knockout wood. Its not a trap grade but sure has the makings. In fact not sure I've seen better wood on a 97.

This pic also shows an ole N.R. Davis hammer double and a Natchez bowie I made up with a cold browned blade (I don't know why...was browning a barrel and thought well why not?)

]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-299.html Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:29 -0600 drcook]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-299.html I picked up a 1956, and have a 1952 and 1949 on the way.

The 1952 one has a vent rib installed by Simmons Gunsmithing. It currently is a full choke, I will either have it opened up, or tapped for choke tubes

The 1949 one is a "solid rib" model. It also took a trip back to New York when Ithaca was there, and had a vent rib barrel with choke tubes fitted to it.

Here is a link to a PDF showing the dates of manufacture of various Ithaca models

http://www.ithacagun.com/pdfs/serialnumbers.pdf

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1952













1949













]]> I picked up a 1956, and have a 1952 and 1949 on the way.

The 1952 one has a vent rib installed by Simmons Gunsmithing. It currently is a full choke, I will either have it opened up, or tapped for choke tubes

The 1949 one is a "solid rib" model. It also took a trip back to New York when Ithaca was there, and had a vent rib barrel with choke tubes fitted to it.

Here is a link to a PDF showing the dates of manufacture of various Ithaca models

http://www.ithacagun.com/pdfs/serialnumbers.pdf

1956









1952













1949













]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-298.html Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:31:57 -0600 drcook]]> http://historicshooting.com/thread-298.html
I asked Don and Bob to add this forum to discuss "older shotguns". So we need to decide on a cutoff date. Does 1970 sound like a good time ? My thoughts were to talk about and post pics of our old guns, like the post I did about my old Ithaca 37's.

So what do you say ? Where should we draw the line? My interest is in seeing, talking and learning about the older guns, from back in the day when there was still a lot of pride in building guns. It doesn't matter if today's prices don't reflect the quality that went into them, such as the old Stevens 77A 20 gauge I have, or the Savage clone of a Browning A5 in 16ga (the rounded humped one, not square like the Browning).

Or should we also include modern repros of actual old guns, just like Shilohs and C. Sharps are repros of days gone by..]]>
I asked Don and Bob to add this forum to discuss "older shotguns". So we need to decide on a cutoff date. Does 1970 sound like a good time ? My thoughts were to talk about and post pics of our old guns, like the post I did about my old Ithaca 37's.

So what do you say ? Where should we draw the line? My interest is in seeing, talking and learning about the older guns, from back in the day when there was still a lot of pride in building guns. It doesn't matter if today's prices don't reflect the quality that went into them, such as the old Stevens 77A 20 gauge I have, or the Savage clone of a Browning A5 in 16ga (the rounded humped one, not square like the Browning).

Or should we also include modern repros of actual old guns, just like Shilohs and C. Sharps are repros of days gone by..]]>