I don't have any data Frank, just personal experience with a number of Ithacas belonging to friends and acquaintances. They were all fairly well used guns in average condition otherwise. As I think back I can recall six that had rib separations to one degree or another.
My experience with Ithacas is very small compared to my experience with Parkers and of the many hundreds of Parkers I have handled or examined I can think of only two that had rib issues and both of those were limited to the forend loop, or lug, having come loose.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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