A Bit of a Poll

[Stepmac]

Question: Is the Parker a better gun than a Fox? Lots of differences of course. But that darn Fox is a wonderful gun.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Steve McCarty

Question: Is the Parker a better gun than a Fox? Lots of differences of course. But that darn Fox is a wonderful gun.

That's like asking what's the better car Porsche BMW or a Benz . Or like asking what's the better female blonde ,redhead of brunette . Life's to short to debate such questions .

[Grantham Forester]

My bird hunting pal has an Ithaca 12 ejector gun with one trigger that his uncle bought new in 1940--He shoots it far better on game birds than his Browning 20 Citori- and twice he let me shoot it for a day afield while he used the Citori- Isn't the Ithaca company history as far back into the 19th. century as the Smith, LeFever and the Parker??

[Stepmac]

Originally Posted by Grantham Forester

My bird hunting pal has an Ithaca 12 ejector gun with one trigger that his uncle bought new in 1940--He shoots it far better on game birds than his Browning 20 Citori- and twice he let me shoot it for a day afield while he used the Citori- Isn't the Ithaca company history as far back into the 19th. century as the Smith, LeFever and the Parker??

I do not know when Ithaca started making guns, but they do go way back. I think the Flues gun was contemporary with the Trogan, which means it was with the Sterlingworth and some Lefevers too. I guess I could Google the company and find out.

I do know that Ithaca has been in and out of business several, I believe three, times and are today back in biz making exclusively the Model 37 and they are NOT cheap.