Yea!!! and Ouch!!! Ithaca 37 is back!! Price gouging or worth it ?

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Yea!!! and Ouch!!! Ithaca 37 is back!! New! Factory direct.

Model 37 Featherlight​

$2,799.00 USD 28” vent rib barrel with a TruGlo front sight and AA Grade wood. (I figure $4500 Canadian all in to your door using importer). I am a left handed shooter and I am a huge Ithaca 37 fan. I know they are a fantastic gun. I would love to get one of these new ones ... but that is one expensive pump shotgun ... Price gouging or worth it ??? Your opinion? Thanks.

Model 37 Trench Gun 12 Gauge​

$2,999.00 USD
 
Ithaca keeps getting resurrected...and each time they bring the '37 back to life...and each time it's more outlandishly priced than the time before. I love the gun, but it's not worth anything close to what they are charging for it today. The guys who are trying to get $1000 plus for standard old Ithacas on the EE, even in mint condition, are delusional IMHO.

I have two right now...an old slam-fire version I inherited from my father, and one from the last iteration before this new one. I believe I paid $700 for that one a number of years ago, used but in unfired condition, and I thought I was overpaying. That newer one is very nice, maybe as nice as the old one...but neither one is even $1000 nice, let alone $3000.

Is the Ithaca design unsuited for modern efficient manufacturing methods? Maybe so, but that means that it should not be made...not that they should just make it anyways and then expect people to pay an insane price for the name.
 
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I bought one of the new ones a couple of years ago, 16 ga, no engraving, AAA wood . Came with a mark in the bluing, wood was very proud of the receiver , and was defiantly not AAA , recoil a pad was cracked in two places. Clay at Prophet River was very good about sending it back and had it back to me within a couple of months with all issues fixed. But these were things that should never happened in the first place.
 
they are not really worth 700$ for a new one so where does the $ add up 40 % exchange 25% tariff wholesaler 10 gst pst 30% wholesaler
so welcome to canada
then guys think they will recoup there money when they sell it well
o i forgot 30% for the retailer
all these charges do not and value to the firearm
 
Man that price is crazy!

Is the 37 really the kind of gun that has the kind of fandom that's gonna buy this? They strike me as a working man's gun, the kind of gun primarily owned by people who have no interest in such fancy toys as this.
 
geologist said:
Do they slamfire?
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Not since '75.

imho, that's way over priced. While they have a reputation for being a well built shotgun, and the bottom ejection has positive attributes to it, it's also difficult to load/top off, see into the breech, and the barrels are a pain to source shorter ones that fit properly.

Now, an Ithaca 37, 18-14 inch barrel, threaded for chokes...something riot-ish 8+1, 9+1...that's a shotgun that interests me.

A shotgun at $2800 USD, should be something like an Italian over under fouler...British perhaps. Not an Ithaca pump.
 
brybenn said:
I thought someone was making a trench copy?
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They do make sort of a trench version... but it's not really a true clone of any classic Ithaca, they looks like these,
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Instead of this,

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This,
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Or this,

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They are not making guns anymore and used remaining parts to build some complete guns so the price is high because you are buying literally the last Model 37’s to be made. They are very well made and essentially hand fitted, much better quality than the older ones everyone seems to love
 
jjohnwm said:
Ithaca keeps getting resurrected...and each time they bring the '37 back to life...and each time it's more outlandishly priced than the time before. I love the gun, but it's not worth anything close to what they are charging for it today. The guys who are trying to get $1000 plus for standard old Ithacas on the EE, even in mint condition, are delusional IMHO.

I have two right now...an old slam-fire version I inherited from my father, and one from the last iteration before this new one. I believe I paid $700 for that one a number of years ago, used but in unfired condition, and I thought I was overpaying. That newer one is very nice, maybe as nice as the old one...but neither one is even $1000 nice, let alone $3000.

Is the Ithaca design unsuited for modern efficient manufacturing methods? Maybe so, but that means that it should not be made...not that they should just make it anyways and then expect people to pay an insane price for the name.
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Yes, and that's been the case for a long time.

The Upper Sandusky guns are indeed well made, I'm compare them favorably to my 1957 vintage Model 37, however even so they're not going to have much of a market at this price point.
 
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