Ithaca Pigeon Gun

[Joe from MO]

Well, I do not see the barrel engraving, nor is the checkering as ornate on the gun in your picture compared to the one on GI.

I guess the question is, what exactly did you get by going from grade6 to 7?

[Researcher]

The gun on GI does have the normally shown No. 7 engraving on the barrels. The checkering on the No. 7 normally included the patch of checkering above and below the stock cheek.

No. 7, 1915 catalogue.jpg

No. 7E FLUES, 12-GAUGE, 28-inch 01.jpg

No. 7E Flues, 12-gauge, 28-inch, early, 1932 SNST 02.jpeg

Even into the NID era.

No. 7E, NID, 12-gauge, 28-inch.jpg

[Stan Hoover]

Dave,

My first take is Grade 6, the engraving on the sides and those dogs, the dogs alone look very much like the 2 Grade 6 Flues that I've seen in the last couple years.

Now that pigeon, I know I've seen that one before, either I've seen this gun, (which I don't think), or I've seen another gun with this distinct pigeon on.

Maybe it is in Walt's book, I know I've seen this pigeon or similar before.

Stan