That's a great find Dean. Those little Ithicas are carry all day guns.

Dean, As we spoke about earlier a great little Ithaca. Tell Kathy congratulations on her new gun.....:whistle: I have some soft shooting 20 gauge loads all made up for her and her new Ithaca.

Great little No. 2 Krupp Pigeon!! Kinda scarce in 20-gauge!!

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Dean, what a wonderful gun! Those barrel keels (4th pic in second batch) would have confirmed things for me. :) Just for comparison, I had an 20b Flues at one time, wish I hadn't sold it. Just a Field grade made ~ 1920 but in 99.5% condition, possibly unfired. Its barrels (not Krupp) were stamped 0 and 4 which would normally indicate Cylinder and Full chokes. But as we know Ithaca usually didn't restamp choke numbers when gun was ordered with more open choking. Chokes actually measured .002 and .014, thus the left barrel with ~ 2.5" long tapered-choke had been opened to Mod. Weight 6^2 with 28-inch tubes. Anyway ..... one of the guns I wish I had kept. Yours is a very nice find and I'm happy for Kathy and you. :cool:

Congrats Dean,that's a real dandy little gun!

Dean,

I saw this post, and commented, on my phone last night and thought you had quite a find.

now seeing the pictures on a full sized screen, I can only say I was not nearly as impressed as I should have been then :bowdown:

what a great gun, thanks for showing it off

Thanks very much for the compliments guys and thank you Dave for the ad copy.

I don't know much about Ithacas so here's my first question for somebody in the know.... It has a three position safety with Safe being in the middle position but sliding it back or forward from safe seems to make no difference at all. It's as if it was made for a SST but the tang is not stamped L or R. Anybody know why the safety is this way?

Dean ,Great Find an a beautiful gun ,had my #2 Grade that has been lounging around in my safe been a 20 Gauge ,it wouldn't be on Gun Broker for sale as we speak ! The safety ,I believe should work like this , Once cocked slide the safety lever to the front position ,fire the gun then when you cock the gun ,it should reset the safety automatically but if you slide the safety lever to the rear ,when you cock the gun it will remain off safe and hence become a manual safe ! I think this must have been done for Trap Shooting purposes !

Dean;
That is VERY dangerous. DO NOT shoot it. Forward the gun to me and I will have it "Lab" tested. This may take awhile so don't get impatient.:whistle: Seriously... really nice find.

Huh!... well I'll be danged. Thanks Russ.