Is there a retailer that stocks and sells new Ithaca shotguns in Canada?

I inquired at shooters choice in waterloo a couple years ago about them and they didn't stock them at the time but could get them and said that they would be stocking them eventually. Not sure if they have them yet or not.
 
3macs1 said:
He did for sure. That is where I bought my 28ga model 37 but not sure if he still handles them. I thought he passed them on to another distributor but could be wrong
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correct, they have gone through a different distrbutor every year since we gave them up about 5 years ago. Really gone up in price.
 
I love the Ithaca 37 and really wish I had gotten my hand on one a few years ago when they were reasonably priced here in Canada.
I am afraid that Ithaca is pricing themselves out of the game unfortunately.
 
This can be a very difficult endeavour in Canada. Unless you find exactly what you want pulled from some former hunter's closet after an estate sale, your only options is brand new or importing from abroad.
Problem with importing, is the added cost of import fees here and export fees from there. Shipping, handling, insurance and anything else the tax man wants.
One has to do the math and balance it out with your degree of desire IMO.
 
Since Im shopping for a 20g pump, this thread is relevant to my interests. Im not sure whats going on with the new Ithaca's, I checked out Irunguns US site and the only models they had were the defenders, no hunting styles at all in stock. I am still hoping for their success and would love to pick up an Ithaca or two. I hope they are just running behind on manufacturing...
 
I believe they are the distributors so I would follow up with them..
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correct, they have gone through a different distrbutor every year since we gave them up about 5 years ago
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Yup. There have now been two more distributors after us.

You would think sticking it out with one for at least a couple years might help grow the brand.
 
I got one of the new Ithaca 37s in20ga from a guy at work for $600 and it came with a spare set of wood.He s an upland hunter and changes his guns like most people changes their socks.He s really a double gun guy and after putting a couple of boxes through it he found it really didn t fit him so he ordered another set of stocks for it but he couldn t warm up to a pump.He then found a nice double and needed to sell the Ithaca fast to buy it so he offers the 37 and the spare wood to me and at I snapped it up and I m glad I did.These guns are high quality , the actions are slick as snot and the workmanship superb
 
the pice on that site blows me away. I thought these guns were around the same price as normal pump action guns... you know... $300-800 range. why are they so expensive? I just bought an older model 37 (with the slamfire feature! yay!), in great condition and it only cost me 300! how can they justify this much brand new.

also, I know a lot of companies today don't make em like they used to (cough **REMINGTON**, Cough). Is Ithaca not one of these then? for tha price they must be top quality eh?

help a newbie understand please!
 
wd123 said:
the pice on that site blows me away. I thought these guns were around the same price as normal pump action guns... you know... $300-800 range. why are they so expensive? I just bought an older model 37 (with the slamfire feature! yay!), in great condition and it only cost me 300! how can they justify this much brand new.

also, I know a lot of companies today don't make em like they used to (cough **REMINGTON**, Cough). Is Ithaca not one of these then? for tha price they must be top quality eh?

help a newbie understand please!
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I partly blame this on the consumer and partly on the gun manufacturers myself.
Let's face it, North Americans, for The Most Part, want consumer goods at the lowest possible price. This is a universal demand in all mass manufactured goods since about the early 1960s.

Like it or not this has created a race to the bottom for everyone, including the North American gun makers.
Hence various boards of directors want the best return on the dollar investment. The unions eventually lost when the ultimate happened and the company moved tooling overseas and along with it, well paid labor jobs. This is a general statement of manufacturing capability lost to various third world places such as the South East Asian countries. Where skilled labor wages are considerably lower.

Ithaca, somehow prevailed (keeping real steel and blued wood versus alloy and plastic and keeping American jobs) but it emptied the pockets of share holders with old worn out tooling replacement and several chapter 11s and subsequent company handovers to newer owners. And all is not safe. We might very well witness another chapter 11 file for Ithaca, once again.

You are looking at a revival of Ithaca Gun Company with the best CNC tooling money can buy.
Only the future sales will foretell if North American consumers are willing to pay what European gun makers have known for several decades.
Quality costs money.

Edit: Poorer economies have effected everyone. Only the really big names of Purdey and Holland & Holland make everything, with their name on it, in house. Birmingham, for the most part, survives by sub contracting a lot of piece work.
 
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