Defining the "Perfect Grouse Gun"

[Bill Zachow]

Well, you guys are just too set in your ways. Short barreled 16, 20, and 28s with straight grips and lite weight. No sir ree. Up here on my farms, we use real men's guns. Early season when the leaves are still on, I use my 13 1/2 pound PH, 36 inch barrels (for good follow through) choked full and fuller (.40 and .44). The first shot clears the leaves and allows for the second at approximately 60 yards. Later in the season, with the leaves now gone, I switch to my light weight hammer 8--12 pounds and 34 inch barrels choked "not so full" and full. Compared to my early season gun, this grouse killer is a wand. You may have detected a bit of "tung in cheek" here as I have yet to kill a grouse with either. However, I bet sometime in their youths, the both knocked off a bird or two.

[Brush Buster]

As for perfect Grouse guns ,I may have just got mine ,believe it or not I ended up with the little GH 20 that just sold for the third time in a week on our Forum ,you Guys remember the one I missed twice in a 24 Hour Period ! Ends up the second buyer sent it back home and it now resides at my place , and I couldn't be more pleased ! This little Grouse Getter is a GH 20 Ga. ,5 Lb 14 Oz. ,26" Damascus Barrels with 27 Thou. Min.Wall Thickness ,Choked CYL. and Full ! Now all we need is October !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[C.O.B.]

I firmly believe the perfect Grouse gun doesn't exist. It's just a myth so we keep looking for that elusive Grouse gun and thats ok with me. I have bought three so far and Grouse season is still 5 weeks away.

Congrats Russ I think you will like her. One of my "perfect Grouse" guns is a GHE damascuss 20 with 26 inch bbl IC/M.

[Dean Romig]

That is a wonderful little gun Russ and I firmly believe you now have "The Perfect Grouse Gun"....

(until the next one tempts and teases you.)

[C.O.B.]

There is ALWAYS a next one

[Dean Romig]

True Rich.... I just acquired one myself... a first-year-production (1935) Ithaca () "New Ithaca Field Grade" sixteen gauge Skeet gun with ejectors, 26" tubes, BTFE, straight grip, twin ivories in excellent condition.

Sometimes these guns just find us... and we just can't refuse them.




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[C.O.B.]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

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Sometimes these guns just find us... and we just can't refuse them.



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Thats so true Dean. Lately the 16's have been coming my way The Ithaca's are a great gun and a real value in today's double gun marker IMHO. Congrats on a nice find.

[Harold Pickens]

congratulations Russ!! I'll bring my new to me GH 16 O frame. Maybe you wont need that DH 20 damascus now??

[Brush Buster]

Maybe you wont need that DH 20 damascus now??[/QUOTE]
,I better ,It's almost due home with those refinished barrels and refinished wood if that Dog Gone Jerry just wasn't fishin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dean Romig]

This from a 1935 issue of National Sportsman.

The only option my Ithaca doesn't have is the selective single trigger.



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