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Originally Posted by Fred Verry
I don't know if there is enough time to get a new Damascus auto and burglar built before the Spring Southern but, One of Ithaca's 1922 advertisements said " With it the average person can hit objects thrown in the air easier than with the regulation shotgun fired from the shoulder." 
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besides the legality issues of the old auto and burglar Ithacas, the few folk I know that have actually fired one said it was not pleasant.
I will try to find the exact quote, but as some Indian prince once commented when asked about the the recoil of his Howdah pistol, his reply was to the affect of
when a tiger is on one's elephant's head, one does not mind the recoil