What original is this Norinco a copy of ?

FatCatsDad said:
Well, for $100 I took a gamble.

I hate carrying an expensive short 870 TAC ORD on the ATV.

Other Norinco products I've owned in the past all performed well.

I'd happily buy a name brand gun but EE prices are quite frankly stupid for the most part and I dislike the back and forth BS of negotiating.

I've even listed things I don't want any longer at stupid prices just so they fit in.

I tried posting a 12g BPS at $200 below the cheapest I found and messages were all asking why it's so cheap, what's wrong with it, what am I hiding etc.

Accusations get worse when I tell them I've only owned it for 3 or 4 months.

Is what I do really so odd ?

I buy a gun, shoot it for a while, sell it and buy somthing else.

Is there any other way to try out the hundreds and hundreds of guns out there ?

As a closing thought if the 37 copy is no good, I'll toss it on the EE for $325
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Most of these guys havent owned one of these, Ive had several and just sold a combo barrel unit with wood stocks, they are very good guns and work perfect, with this design(i have 4 ithacas and two m37 EGE guns) there really isnt anything that can go wrong with them, easy to fix if they dont run but most are very good, i really like the bottom eject.......that was a good buy for sure
 
Oh also, the shouldder stocks from ithacas work on these but the forarms do not as the norinco has two slide action bars and the ithaca and the ege have only one, so some tricky modifications need to be done to make the forarms work
 
hunterhenderson said:
Oh also, the shouldder stocks from ithacas work on these but the forarms do not as the norinco has two slide action bars and the ithaca and the ege have only one, so some tricky modifications need to be done to make the forarms work
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I'd like to find a rear stock for it, or a complete wood set.
A quick search in Canada comes up empty.
I'm not much of a "tactical style" guy
 
mcpiper said:
Copy of the Ithaca 37, my understanding is it has dual action bars unlike the original but does not slam fire. I've owned a few Norcs over the years, cut my hand bad on a razor sharp 9mm 1911 but owned an M305 that I was quite fond of. I'd be curious if the barrel would fit an Ithaca 37 but am doubtful of very much interchangeability.
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It does not. The lugs on the barrel are similar but do not swap
 
It is a clone of the Ithaca 37 but most parts are not interchangeable. It was not the worst Norinco shotgun, but it was pretty close. The best being the 870 clone; HP9, YJ12, and the Dominion Arms Grizzly. The worst was the Homland 780.
For $100 its worth it, may need some tinkering to get it to run smoothly tho.
 
Goo98 said:
doesnt slam fire like a real ithaca 37 so thats a no vote for me
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Ithacas have an actual disconnect that drops the hammer when the gun goes into battery. Slamfire, what we used to call, is when the hammer follows and a round goes off. I had an Ithaca from the factory, where the hammer followed if you didn't let go of the trigger. It did nothing.
 
struff55 said:
norinco why would anyone e own such junk 😝
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Function better than NEA/BCL. Haven't seen a Norc with gas ports drilled thru and thru like I have with NEA.

My HP9 shotgun at half the cost of an 870 is super smooth and accurate.

The M305 was better bargain than a 3x more M1A.
 
OkayShooter said:
Function better than NEA/BCL. Haven't seen a Norc with gas ports drilled thru and thru like I have with NEA.

My HP9 shotgun at half the cost of an 870 is super smooth and accurate.

The M305 was better bargain than a 3x more M1A.
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I've heard of poor quality wood on the Norinco's, cracking , splitting etc, all have rough machine marks and sharp edges but they all run.
My Norinco M4 Cqb ran very well as did the 1911 and 870 mag fed.
They're long sold off now but I wouldn't hesitate to buy another.
I honestly can't see this ITHACA clone being as bad as some think.

The only gun that had a true verifiable bad reputation was the homeland 780
 
FatCatsDad said:
Not all Ithaca 37's slam fire.
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For sure.

As I understand, newer Ithaca 37's have a disconnector, which forces you to release the trigger to fire again. I think the disconnectors were added to production around the same time 3" chambers became standard.

Thinking about this now, older Ithaca's hammers don't follow the bolt when you hold down the trigger as some have said. Something is wrong with the gun if it does that. They must have something like an "auto sear" that trips the hammer just as the bolt locks up and the trigger is held down, just like in a full auto.

I have several older ones and a couple of newer ones that I've never had reason to take apart to look at the mechanism.
 
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FatCatsDad said:
How often does a situation occur where this "feature" is used ?

When was the last time and circumstance did you Slamfire your Ithaca 37 ?

I don't understand the importance of Slamfire.
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Once a group of enemy troops swarms on you in your foxhole while you're trying to jerk off to your deck of nudie playing cards you'll wish you had that feature
 
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