Can't Wait To Do This With My Ithaca

[Frank Good]

I was a bit late getting my Ithaca NID4E back in time for the 2023 waterfowl season but she is ready for 2024 and I have a few hundred rounds of Bismuth ready to meet the challenge...

[Larry Stauch]

Someone had a great shoot, but what kind of geese did they shoot? Those are definately not all greater Canadas. Short beaks and gray breasts, they are some sort of lessers. What state were they shot in? BTW, beautiful mallards too.

[Mills Morrison]

I got to use my new to me NID Mag 10 this season and it was a charge

[Brian Stucker]

Looks like you guys did a good job hitting the drake mallards.

[Frank Good]

Well it seemed like an eternity waiting for the mallards to green up so I could bring the Ithaca out to play!

[Frank Good]

And of course Judge Parker wanted in on some action as well so he tagged along for the final honker hunt of the season.

[Frank Good]

Someone had a great shoot, but what kind of geese did they shoot? Those are definately not all greater Canadas. Short beaks and gray breasts, they are some sort of lessers. What state were they shot in? BTW, beautiful mallards too.

Alberta Canada, lesser canadas. I live in one of the best flyways for migrating Specks, Lesser Canadas and Mallards in North America.

[Garry L Gordon]

Alberta Canada, lesser canadas. I live in one of the best flyways for migrating Specks, Lesser Canadas and Mallards in North America.

I’ll say you do! Good to see someone is getting waterfowl action. None to speak of here.

[Stan Hoover]

Looks like you guys have had some great hunting there Frank!

You were putting that Ithaca to some good use, thanks for all the great pictures,

Stan

PS. I love that grip and the beautiful checkering

[Bill Murphy]

Tell us about the Ithaca or Ithacas.

[Frank Good]

Tell us about the Ithaca or Ithacas.

The Ithaca is a 1927 NID4E that was factory ordered as a 2 3/4" 12ga. two barrel set. The order information I obtained from the Cody Museum letter stated it was ordered as a 24" barrel choked 0/0 with a spare 30" barrel choked 4/4. It was ordered with a straight grip stock. Somewhere along the line a previous owner must have broken or decided to replace the original stock with another straight grip stock and broke that one in half at some point. The second stock was replaced with the current stock you see and was made by Chris Dawe of Stillwater Restorations. He told me he tried to talk the owner into keeping it a straight grip stock but he said "what the customer wants the customer gets" so sadly the original trigger guard was shortened and part of the hand engraved serial # drilled through to accommodate the shorter reshaped guard for the pow grip. As well someone at some point messed with the 30" bbl set and cut them back to 28" leaving about 1/2" of choke section micing out to .004 & .005 constriction and reblued both sets poorly. Chris refinished the bluing on the barrels, trigger guard and forend irons properly and had a fellow he collaborates with redo the CCH. All this was done w/o any harm being done to the original engraving so none of it needed recutting. So its not a great gun in terms of collector value but it is one heck of a nice shooter which is what I want in any of my guns. And shoot wonderfully it does! Using 1oz bismuth #4-5 &/or #6 1200 fps it is so soft shooting and deadly at distances to 30-35 yds it really amazes me. It points, swings and shoots so sweet! It feels like you just cant miss with it even when I do! Lol

[Frank Good]

Here it is after I received it back from Chris and in the field...

[Larry Stauch]

Alberta Canada, lesser canadas. I live in one of the best flyways for migrating Specks, Lesser Canadas and Mallards in North America.

Interestingly enough, or not interesting at all if you don't care to know about it, there are several different subspecies of lesser Canada goose. When I lived in Vancouver Washington and hunted geese across the Columbia river in Oregon, you actually had to pass a test about the 7 or 8 subspecies before you could get a license. They were defined as the Dusky, the Westerner, the Aleutian, the Taverner, the Cackler, the Richardson's, and the Lesser. The big focus was on the Dusky, which was limited to one per season as I recall. The Aleutian is kind of cool because it has a white collar where the neck joins the body. There are actually more subspecies depending where you are in North America. Anyway, back to the beautiful Ithaca subject gun; I've said it before, I'm in awe of Chris Dawe. What a craftsman.

[Stan Hillis]

Wonderful gun, Frank. I caught the Ittaker bug a couple years back myself. Bought a Grade 3 Super Ten from a member's ad on this site, AIR.

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[Frank Good]

Wonderful gun, Frank. I caught the Ittaker bug a couple years back myself. Bought a Grade 3 Super Ten from a member's ad on this site, AIR.

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That is a beauty!