Nice Ithaca M37 20ga
- Thread starter SuperCub
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Very nice find indeed. I'd love to find one of the older ones with the corncob forestock. Good thing you moved fast. I hesitated on a rifle that was up on another forum yesterday. Thought it would go quickly, and oh well ... my hesitation saved me several hundred $.
Brutus
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Not as good a pic as SC's. 1971 made M37, and the previous owner worked it real hard on the BC lower mainland. The corncob fore-end and newer barrel were add ons from myself. Hard to see but it's about 6.2 lbs. The plain full choke barrel deserves to be chasing huns or pheasants on the flatlands, it's just a bit too tight for close bunnies but it works.
M12shooter
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- Location
- East St. Paul, mb
Nice little piece of shooting equipment. Should be great on upland birds such as ruffies, woodcock, crows or the like. Never were the smoothest "pumpers" but very reliable.
We are about to start the flow of Ithaca up here again
Our first shipment should be on the way soon.
I love these shotguns.
The newest incarnation of Ithaca shotguns are good shotguns, but they just aren't even on the same page(chapter even) as the true Ithacas from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Just my 2 cents.
Still kicking myself for selling my 1958 20ga M37...
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Fine old shotguns!
I hear you Hook, up here I stumbled across a 1940 made M37 with the factory original plain modified barrel in not too bad a condition. The owners really did not know much about thier pile of inherited shotguns. That is, until I told them exactly what they had. Thier teenage son had a change of heart for a sale or two, and suddenly had a new appreciation for older, well made shotguns. It was hiding behind another nice 20 gauge, a Remington Model 17 pumpgun. Thier grandfather bought all his hunting long guns, Savages, Ithacas, and the one Remington, all locally in Upper New York state before he moved to Canada.
Oh well, at least they know now...............
I hear you Hook, up here I stumbled across a 1940 made M37 with the factory original plain modified barrel in not too bad a condition. The owners really did not know much about thier pile of inherited shotguns. That is, until I told them exactly what they had. Thier teenage son had a change of heart for a sale or two, and suddenly had a new appreciation for older, well made shotguns. It was hiding behind another nice 20 gauge, a Remington Model 17 pumpgun. Thier grandfather bought all his hunting long guns, Savages, Ithacas, and the one Remington, all locally in Upper New York state before he moved to Canada.
Oh well, at least they know now...............
Mount Sweetness
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Ontario
Nice find, it looks like you found exactly what you had been waiting for.
I'd like to own a nice one some day, a reliable one....
I have two memories of this model that will be stuck with me until the day I die:
....as a young hunter aged 16 my buddy got snow in the barrel while rabbit hunting - tried to shoot the snow out...bulged barrel and had to order a new barrel...it was his dad's gun, a real beauty that everyone wanted to handle.
....years later another buddy wanted to hunt bunnies and pheasants a little bit, no firearms licence, he picked up an old green spray painted 37 from his old man's friend, the gun consistently jammed at the worst times it was almost comical, the hunts would become very entertaining to say the least..
I'd like to own a nice one some day, a reliable one....
I have two memories of this model that will be stuck with me until the day I die:
....as a young hunter aged 16 my buddy got snow in the barrel while rabbit hunting - tried to shoot the snow out...bulged barrel and had to order a new barrel...it was his dad's gun, a real beauty that everyone wanted to handle.
....years later another buddy wanted to hunt bunnies and pheasants a little bit, no firearms licence, he picked up an old green spray painted 37 from his old man's friend, the gun consistently jammed at the worst times it was almost comical, the hunts would become very entertaining to say the least..
Ahh the dumb white trash, yet most of them have PALS!!!. Really WHAT THE #### ARE YOU CFSC "Instructors" doing? Show some professionalism at least!!!!
They really should play some banjo music each time a small town gun show opens the doors to the unwashed masses!
Such is my experience in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Not all of them of course, but the vast majority of patrons. Many even complaining they had to pay $5 to get in....
The arena does not rent itself.
Ya, they are wickedly overpriced even if they are made in the USA but the new Winchester Lever guns are priced in the same $1000+ range too. Must be the nostalgic factor.
Farmboy, whats the deal with having the AAA $700 bucks more than MSRP?
