In my experience, a standard under 500,000 Ithaca ten, bored out to 3 1/2" is almost impossible to sell. No one wants a whored up magnum.

one thing about 3 1/2 inch doubles the frame is larger and very bulky to me where as a 2 7/8 gun handles a lot better than the magnum guns...but i to like the magnum 10 i ve wanted a ithaca 10 for a long time but always out of my pocketbook....i have a old parker gun with twist barrels that has 3 1/2 inch chambersprobly not factory but it shoots wellgun weighs 12 lbs...i have a ithaca 3 1/2 inch automatic that shoots a lot better pattern than all my other 10 ga s..jerry i took a thick barrel stevens 12 ga and made it into 3 1/2 chambers have killed a few turkeys with it when i could walk a long ways i carried this gun...let us know if you rechambered the gun....charlie

Top is NID field grade 10 ga Magnum 12 lb. 4 oz 32" barrels
Bottom is 6 frame 10 ga. 11 lb. 2 oz. 34" barrels

is the parker pictured here a 3 1/2 inch gun...nice guns ...charlie

There's a lot to be said of a Parker that looks bigger than the NID beside it but weighs more than a pound less, even with the longer barrels. I'll bet it swings a lot nicer than the NID too...

Jeff, please compare the felt recoil between the two.


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I commented before that the proof reader must have been asleep to make about a comment on "The little .410 Ithaca is a winner" when the ad was for the Super 10. Out of place I think.

In the September 1929 issue of The American Rifleman they formatted that ad a bit differently --

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but they still mention the "little .410." In those days it really was, with 3/10 ounce of shot in the 2-inch shell and 3/8 ounce in the 2 1/2 inch shell.

I picked up a super 10 from I guy that shot 3 1/2 in. shells out of it and said" it keeps opening up every time I shoot it", I picked it up cheep and shot 2 7/8ths shell fine with it. Shoot it the way it is and you won't want for more gun, trust me:)

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This is my Mag 10 I loaded 1.5 oz of #3 nice shot which patterned better than larger shot loads
1 shot at 40 yards and he folded up like a dove.dead in the air.