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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

francis if i were a pump man the itaca 37 would certainly be standing in my corner...i had a model 37 extra feather lite 20 ga i gave my grandson a while back...neat little gun but kicked like a 12....good find... charlie

-- I am a dyed-in-the-wool M12 man, my grandson Jordan will start with a 20 field grade 28" mod choke my late Dad bought new in 1932-has the older "perch-bellied" buttstock, I shot my first pheasants and ducks with it (with a 3 shot plug)- I had a solid red pad added when I was about 13- longer arms, bigger in chest and shoulders than my late father- but I have a spare M12 20 gauge buttstock to install on it when Jordy is ready- hopefully at age 10 or so-- his father is a lefty, but still shoots his late father's M25 12 gauge Win pumpgun, when he's not borrowing my "POS" evil black Mossenburgher 835 Utility Mag 3.5" 12 pump..

I like the Ithaca M37, they sure were popular, one of Michigan's now late legendary grouse men, Doc Hall of Traverse City area- had a 20 with a Poly-choke and he was a deadly wingshot with that. My late friend from the Haymarsh Club, owner of a peat and topsoil operation just north of Lakeview- Bud Gummer, a real GSP man, shot a Rem M17 20, also with a Poly-choke, and was also a superb wingshot.

Some men, it might seem, can shoot any shotgun that fits them fairly well, and if the Ithaca featherlight is their chosen "escopeta", well they are in good company indeed. If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery, then the short-lived Winchester M12 featherlight may have been offered to the American gunning public as another choice against the well-established Ithaca--