Duckbill ithaca 37

[870P]

Forgive my relative ignorance, but couldn't one just do the duckbill cut to the barrel itself?
Why wouldn't you want to do that?

Not wrecking a barrel, for one.

Compare the diameter of the barrel to the duckbill, do you think it would be able to accommodate such a large cutout, and if it could, how long would it hold up?

 

[gwhysow]

Lovely shotgun with a very interesting history in wartime SE Asia.
I am an Ithaca nut to a degree but cannot bring myself to seek out an identical model. Too much to commit to #4 buckshot. And I own three extended mag variants and both models of Stakeout

Still, it's very cool.

That sounds pretty selfish. You should spread those around, comrade

 

[gwhysow]

James Watson approves.

These duckbills are meant to be used with #4 buckshot or smaller, larger pellets aren't the way to go.

Nothing says 'break contact' quite like slamfiring 150+ 'shots' into the bush in a couple of seconds.

 

[870P]

The #4 buckshot the SEALs used was a higher grade than can probably be found today, being extra hardened and double nickel plated.

This load, or a reballed equivalent, was offered commercially for years by Winchester, but was discontinued decades ago.

 

[Brutus]

That sounds pretty selfish. You should spread those around, comrade

Decades of seeking finding friend.
Slight sprinkling of sheer luck.....

It's not all been perfect though.
Missed out on a Roadblocker about five years ago. And missed out two instances M6 of Ithaca manufacture.
And just once an A model Auto & Burglar.
Possibly a Vietnam era trench gun too.

 

[Brutus]

The #4 buckshot the SEALs used was a higher grade than can probably be found today, being extra hardened and double nickel plated.

This load, or a reballed equivalent, was offered commercially for years by Winchester, but was discontinued decades ago.

There was a pretty good rumour the FBI used these too until the mid 1990s. They purported it was highly useful shooting out auto side door window glass once press of trigger almost completely. Without extreme overpenetration danger to innocent bystanders.

 

[JTF#]

The problem they had in the military with the choke was that it was actually designed with commercial lead loadings. Not steel or hardened shot.

The #4 buckshot the SEALs used was a higher grade than can probably be found today, being extra hardened and double nickel plated.

This load, or a reballed equivalent, was offered commercially for years by Winchester, but was discontinued decades ago.

 

[gwhysow]

Decades of seeking finding friend.
Slight sprinkling of sheer luck.....

It's not all been perfect though.
Missed out on a Roadblocker about five years ago. And missed out two instances M6 of Ithaca manufacture.
And just once an A model Auto & Burglar.
Possibly a Vietnam era trench gun too.

You didn't happen to win a Marinecoat DSPS at auction a few years back, did you? Still trying to find find culprit

I've bought and sold a number of pieces over the years, but those mil/leo models get held onto like family.

 

[Brutus]

You didn't happen to win a Marinecoat DSPS at auction a few years back, did you? Still trying to find find culprit

I've bought and sold a number of pieces over the years, but those mil/leo models get held onto like family.

No. Both my DSPS have the parkerized finish.
In fact all of them pretty much. Only variance is one slug barrel with a subdued blueing.

 

[gwhysow]

No. Both my DSPS have the parkerized finish.
In fact all of them pretty much. Only variance is one slug barrel with a subdued blueing.

The hunt continues for my nemesis . There's nothing quite like a parked DSPS with plain wood stocks. Still the most beautiful form of any boomstick.