Old Ithaca Model 37's

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As some of you saw over on the Shiloh board, I have gotten onto an old Ithaca 37 kick in 16 ga. I sold some guns to realign my collection. So far
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