Ithaca .410 NID

[Shawn Wayment]

I recently purchased this 1927 Ithaca NID .410 grade 1...I’m pretty excited to take it on my annual Idaho trip in a couple weeks.

[Reggie Bishop]

That looks really nice. Single trigger with a beavertail. What is barrel length?

[Dave Noreen]

That should be fun. However, up in Idaho is Elmer country. So, perhaps you need this No. 1E from Steve Barnett as back-up --

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/ithaca-shotguns-n-i-d-/ithaca-nid-grade-1-magnum-10-gauge.cfm?gun_id=100889725

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Shawn, is that a grade 1? Looks like a grade 1 1/2 to me. I used to own a very beat up 1 1/2 20 Ithaca. Just sold my grade 3 Lewis 12 ga w/ chain link damascus this week.

[Bill Davis]

It's def. a Grade 1. 1 1/2's, as I recall, were only in the Flues models and well before the 410 was introduced. Researcher--that Grade 1 10 bore Magnum is a nice gun! I was its caretaker for awhile in my NID days!!

[Dave Noreen]

In the late teens, through The Great War, Ithaca Gun Co. phased out the use of composite iron and steel barrels, making a number of their entry-level grades that differed only by barrel material redundant. They dropped the No. 1 Special and combined the No. 1 and the No. 1 1/2 as the New No. 1 in late 1919.

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By the way, a 1927 vintage NID .410-bore would have started life chambered for the 2 1/2 inch .410-bore shell. The 3-inch .410-bore shell was introduced along with the Winchester Model 42 in 1933.

[Shawn Wayment]

That looks really nice. Single trigger with a beavertail. What is barrel length?

Reggie they’re 26 inches

[Shawn Wayment]

In the late teens, through The Great War, Ithaca Gun Co. phased out the use of composite iron and steel barrels, making a number of their entry-level grades that differed only by barrel material redundant. They dropped the No. 1 Special and combined the No. 1 and the No. 1 1/2 as the New No. 1 in late 1919.

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By the way, a 1927 vintage NID .410-bore would have started life chambered for the 2 1/2 inch .410-bore shell. The 3-inch .410-bore shell was introduced along with the Winchester Model 42 in 1933.

I read about the chambers in Walt’s book...I guess this gun made a trip back to the factory to have its chambers worked on. That’s pretty neat I think. Thanks for the info!

[Shawn Wayment]

That should be fun. However, up in Idaho is Elmer country. So, perhaps you need this No. 1E from Steve Barnett as back-up --

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/ithaca-shotguns-n-i-d-/ithaca-nid-grade-1-magnum-10-gauge.cfm?gun_id=100889725

Dave I certainly need a 10 bore when hunting those cantankerous phookars know to inhabit Idaho rim rock country. :rotf::banghead:

[Shawn Wayment]

Here’s one of those Idaho Phookars

[Dave Noreen]

Makes my knees hurt just thinking about chasing those things up and down the Snake River breaks here in Washington in my youth!!

Walter said my Field Grade .410-bore NID was shipped to VL&A 10/31/34. It has 3-inch chambers but isn't marked 3" CHAMBERS on the barrel flat. However, it has a 3 stamped on the face of the extractor --

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Of the seven NIDs I currently have, with shipping dates from 1927 to 1941, the only one with chamber length markings is my No. 1, 28-gauge, shipped 04/11/35 --

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[Shawn Wayment]

Makes my knees hurt just thinking about chasing those things up and down the Snake River breaks here in Washington in my youth!!

Walter said my Field Grade .410-bore NID was shipped to VL&A 10/31/34. It has 3-inch chambers but isn't marked 3" CHAMBERS on the barrel flat. However, it has a 3 stamped on the face of the extractor --

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Of the seven NIDs I currently have, with shipping dates from 1927 to 1941, the only one with chamber length markings is my No. 1, 28-gauge, shipped 04/11/35 --

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I went to vet school in Pullman and love the Palouse country.

Here’s where they stamped mine.