Posted on 09/13/2017 10:22:17 AM PDT by w1n1
Id rather have an aa-12
I owned an Ithaca Model 37 many years ago. This was an earlier model with only one action bar. It was not the trench gun but the hunting version.
Basically a boringly reliable shotgun which handled well. If it needed two action bars John Browning would have put two on it.
For urban situations, home invasions and post-disaster looting moments.
Uh, John Browning DID design it..in 1915.
That is what I was saying.
He actually did not technically design the model 37 but it was a virtual copy of a Remington which Browning did design. He put only a single action bar on it.
I read an account of a Marine who used a shotgun in WW II. Said that he needed to be careful where he used it because it always drew tremendous fire when he did.
Still shooting the M37 Featherweight given to me by my dad.
Nothing says stay the hell out of my house than a shotgun with a bayonet...
Ithaca produced the Model 37 precisely to John Browning's design once Remington's patents lapsed: it's not virtual, it's exactly the same design.
As far as the single action bar goes, if JB designed it that way, then it's right. It works just fine and always has. I love "experts" who think they know more about firearms design than the Master.
We used them in Vietnam and they never failed us.
My Remington 870 with short barrel and pistol grip is my house cannon.
I’ve named her, Crowd Control”.
OTOH my dad has a Winchester 1300 Defender pump - eight rounds.
I’ll take a Winchester Model of 1897, thank you. Feeds either from the magazine or just drop one in the ejection port. There are probably still racks of M97s in an armory somewhere. Maybe CMP will release them some day.
Which is illegal in CA. Bayonet mount on a gun is unlawful there.
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I thought bayonet mount was only a problem as a ‘feature’ on a semi-automatic centerfire rifle capable of accepting a magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
My Garand had a bayonet mount before it was lost in the big boating accident (and let me say it was very hard to find enough water to float a boat during the drought).
The 12 gauge with 00 buck is the most effective small arm in existence.
Out to 100 feet, nothing else even comes close.
I carried an Ithaca 37 in RVN, although not a “trench,” just a shortened-barrel 12g. It was a great personal defense weapon, and definitely not an official part of the armory inventory, just something that was passed from one Marine to another through attrition, rotation, etc. How it got in-country I have no idea, but I wish I still had it....
They may have extended it to other arms but in this case I think they showed an M1 carbine.
Ithaca M37 Featherweight with a pheasant etched on the receiver was my first shotgun. I was twelve and I think the gun was twice my age.
I'll bet the Ithaca NY crowd hates the company's name.
Makes me laugh
I just bought a Mossberg 500 last Saturday. She’s ugly but she sure is purty.
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