410 Gun Porn

[Bruce Day]

Now it seems like all you fellows want to see is 8 or 10ga guns with at least 32" barrels that weigh upwards of 12 pounds, or you want to see a couple fellows going at each other.....that's what draws the attention. So only a few might be interested in these little fellows.


First we have a little Ithaca NID 410, with original 18 1/2" barrels, original condition from 1936. Its listed in the Ithaca records as an Auto and Burgler Gun, which obviously its not.

[Bruce Day]

Next we have a little Lefever 410.

[Bruce Day]

And finally an Enders 410.

[Craig Parker]

Bruce,
There all nice but my fav would have to be the little Ithaca 410, what a cool gun.

[Dean Romig]

And of course the Parker AHE .410 Skeet



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[Researcher]

"Enders Royal Service" was a "trade brand" gun, actually made by H & D Folsom Arms Co., of 314 Broadway, NYC, at their factory in Norwich, Conn. I'm sure it started life lookng like this one marked Crescent Fire Arms Co., New Empire --

[Researcher]

I wonder if that lovely little No. 2E Ithaca actually started life with a pistol grip of an Auto & Burgler?



That stock, while of at least No. 4 wood, has the checkering pattern on the grip of the 1935 and later Field Grades. A half-pistol grip is pretty rare on NID era Ithacas. In fact the only one I've seen, before this, is on my No. 4E 20-gauge NID --

[Bruce Day]

There is no indication in the records that the little Ithaca is or was anything other than shown. It is however, listed in the records as an Auto and Burglar gun, per Walt Snyder's Ithaca guns book.

Enders was one of many trade names for guns made by Crescent Arms Company, which was one of several companies controlled by Folsom.

I do not own these guns, owned by a buddy, and I know he had the history of them before acquisition.

[Bruce Day]

And another

[OH Osthaus]

I had a friend who had an Ithaca Auto & Burglar that had been redone (and looked factory) as a full gun when the little guns were outlawed.

not sure if it went back, or if it was short stopped on the way out when the law was enacted.

the few folks I knew that shot the "pistol" version did not do it often