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Shawn Wayment
07-11-2017, 10:54 AM
I really enjoy shooting my 1910 Ithaca Flues 12 grade 4 I recently acquired...can't wait to get out this fall to chase some birds with her.
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I'd love to see any one else's Ithaca's any model :corn:
Dean Romig
07-11-2017, 12:16 PM
Okay then, Kathy's little Ithaca Grade 2 in twenty-gauge with original 24" barrels. Trigger guard bow is engraved with "Mrs. E.W.B." and I have not been able to discover who she was.
Sweet handling little gun nonetheless.
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charlie cleveland
07-11-2017, 08:21 PM
real nice gun your wife has dean she ever let you barrow it....charlie
Dean Romig
07-11-2017, 08:29 PM
I've shot it a few times at Addieville and took it grouse hunting. It's a pretty cute shootin' little gun. I like it. It's just a whisker over 5 lbs.
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Rich Anderson
07-13-2017, 11:19 AM
Mrs E.W.B. is the spouse of Mr. E.W.B.........sorry Dean I just couldn't resist:rotf::rotf::rotf:
Dean Romig
07-13-2017, 12:17 PM
Nyuk-Nyuk...
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Harold Lee Pickens
07-13-2017, 12:39 PM
ok, Shawn, here are my 2 Ithacas-a grade 3 .Lewis 12 ga w/ chain link damascus and my favorite, a grade 4 NID 16 ga
Harold Lee Pickens
07-13-2017, 12:48 PM
Grade 4 16
BTW Shawn, have a new litter of Eng Setter pups 5 days old
Harold Lee Pickens
07-13-2017, 01:18 PM
There were several nice Ithacas being shot at Hausmanns. Austin Hawthorn had a sweet 20 ga with factory 24" barrels, cant remember what grade, but was either a 2 or 4. There was a group of gent.s and their kids shooting, and almost all shot very nice graded Ithacas. There is an Ithaca collectors forum that I occassionally go to , but the posting there is very infrequent.
Dave Noreen
07-13-2017, 01:41 PM
Harold,
Nice NID. What year is it from? I have a 1941 vintage No. 4E 16-gauge and my forearm isn't carved like that. Also the engraving is a bit more sparse by that late date.
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Harold Lee Pickens
07-13-2017, 02:49 PM
Dave, I believe mine was manufactured around 1926-28. I do have a copy of the factory order form for the gun at home. A good friend of mine knew Walt Snyder and was able to get it for me. The gun was ordered into a hardware store in Waynesburg, Pa, about 45 min. from me, just above Morgantown, Wv. It has 28" M/F chokes w/ twin ivory beads.
Stephen Hodges
07-13-2017, 03:01 PM
Nice guns guys. I too like Ithaca's. I own three. A 1969 NIB Model 37 20 gauge choked IC field gun that my father-in-law purchased new and fired less than a box of shells through, a 1912 Flues 16 gauge that was my Dads bird gun. 26" factory IC/F barrels that weighs 5 Lbs 9 Oz. He purchased it in the early 1930's from a widow he knew at work for the tidy sum of $25, which was a lot of money for him back then. And a 1940 NID Grade ll factory two barrel set. One set of 30" F/F and the other 26" marked skeet/skeet. Twin ivory beads, ejectors, single selective trigger using the safety and a beavertail for end.
Shawn Wayment
07-13-2017, 06:00 PM
Grade 4 16
BTW Shawn, have a new litter of Eng Setter pups 5 days old
Harold that's awesome...what's their breeding? I'm a sucker for setters!
Harold Lee Pickens
07-14-2017, 11:04 AM
Stephen, as I recall, you also have an immaculate little Lefever A grade 20, which of course is really an Ithaca--I believe you posted about it a few months ago.
Ithaca guns used really nice wood and had nice engraving. Wish I hadnt sold a little 1 1/2 grade 20 ga that I owned back in the '80's.
charlie cleveland
07-14-2017, 04:36 PM
i too have a coupla ithacas one a 16 ga double with real purty wire twist barrels with the 2 part safety..i also have a ithaca fether light 20 ga that weighs in at 4 lbs kicks like a 12 ga...ithaca guns are good guns...charlie
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