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Originally Posted by Stan Hoover
Ian,
As noted by Dave, it is an Ithaca produced single non selective trigger, designed by Harry Howland and Ithaca employee.
I have a few of these on Ithaca’s that I use and can never recall an Ithaca non selective trigger ever failing. My favorite grouse gun, a 20 gauge has one of these, never a problem.
I shoot Ithaca single selective trigger on a regular basis, had a few issues here and there, but not enough to scare me away from purchasing another Ithaca single trigger. My experience with more than one Kautsky single trigger has been less than favorable, enough to make me think twice before purchasing another.
These are only my experiences and opinions, so take it for what you paid for them.
The gun you show is all there and original in every way except for a pad having been added. Remove the pad and add a Repro Ithaca Sunburst pad and you have a very strong good looking 16 that will handle any 2 3/4” ammo on the market, of course not steel waterfowl loads.
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I’m sort of thinking of getting a 20, 28, or .410 ga Ithaca as these are much cheaper than I thought. IF I was to offer my friend money for this, what should I offer? He’s a bit realistic about the current market, and said he was offered $1200 by a dealer 3 or 4 years ago and was going to do something with the recoil pad if he purchased it. He said he had about that into it, which is where I came up with he had $1200 into it. But my offer might be an insult, but such it is.
There’s a lot of junk Ithaca’s on the market, this one seems nicer than 80 or 90% of them but nowhere near as nice as the $1800 example posted to this thread.
I thought until today it to be worth somewhat closer to the $1200 range than the mid 3 figure range simply because I always thought a single trigger added value and I always thought the value of a N.I.D. to be double that of a Flues.