Guns that you turned your nose to but have changed your mind

[Researcher]

For most of the production life of the NID, they had a plain horizontally grooved butt plate. Here on a No. 5E --

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Here on a Field Grade --

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On the Lefever Nitro Specials they used the curved lines.

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Here on an A-Grade

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The butt plates with the horizontal grooves and the Ithaca Gun Co., Inc. at the bottom were primarily used on the Model 37s, but did appear on a few of the very last post WW-II NIDs --

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Also on a few NIDs restocked by Ithaca in the 1950s and 60s. Note that 1946 vintage, high condition, Nitro Special Brian provided a link to, 356035, has this butt plate.

[Joe from MO]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

Also on a few NIDs restocked by Ithaca in the 1950s and 60s. Note that 1946 vintage, high condition, Nitro Special Brian provided a link to, 356035, has this butt plate.

My son's nitro has the horizontal lines Buttplate. It's a 1946 or 47 gun. I need to go look that up....

Just checked, his is a 1946 gun....356614

[Researcher]

That is a great looking Type 3 Nitro Special. I was thinking the Type 3s were using up left over A-Grade frames, but lately I've noticed they use the same type forearm and cocking cams as the earlier Nitro Specials. The A-Grades use the same cocking cams and forearms with the J-spring latch as the 1935 and later Ithaca NIDs. A 20-gauge Lefever A-Grade above and a 28-gauge Ithaca NID below --

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