Ithaca .410 NID

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Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

Makes my knees hurt just thinking about chasing those things up and down the Snake River breaks here in Washington in my youth!!

Walter said my Field Grade .410-bore NID was shipped to VL&A 10/31/34. It has 3-inch chambers but isn't marked 3" CHAMBERS on the barrel flat. However, it has a 3 stamped on the face of the extractor --

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Of the seven NIDs I currently have, with shipping dates from 1927 to 1941, the only one with chamber length markings is my No. 1, 28-gauge, shipped 04/11/35 --

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I went to vet school in Pullman and love the Palouse country.

Here’s where they stamped mine.