Ithaca M37s are light fast handling shotguns that are ideal for pheasant hunting, IMHO. I don't know if I will use it exclusively for pheasant hunting, but it has been out to the range to break clay birds a couple of times and I am glad to have one in my collection again. Managed to drop a couple of pheasants with it the one day I could get out small game hunting this past year. It took me a while and a couple of other shotguns, but finally last fall, just at the start of pheasant season I bought a very nice used Ithaca M37 12ga shotgun with a vent rib for about $350 at a gun show. Both of those fine shotguns went away in a divorce in the 1989-1990 time frame. I used that Ithaca for about 12-15 years before I bought a Browning A500 semi in 12ga. I had already replaced it with another Ithaca M37 in 12ga with a vent rib by that time.
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That shotgun accounted for a small dump truck full of small game until it was stolen from my brother's house while on loan back in the mid-70s. Browning BPS If you want buy a BPS 16-gauge you will have to find one on the used market.I spent my younger years traipsing about the fields and woodlots of Pennsylvania with an Ithaca M37 in 16ga that I inherited from my father. Model 37s can have a solid or ventilated rib depending on the year they were made and come with barrel lengths from 24 to 32 inches. The 12 was only 7 pounds and the 20-gauge was 5 3/4 pounds. They were lightweight for shotguns made at that time. The Ithaca Deerslayer remains the favorite of many whitetail hunters during shotgun season. For hunters, the M37, which is still being made, was originally available in 28-, 20-, 16- and 12-gauge. It proved a reliable firearm during the Vietnam War because the chamber was enclosed, making it more difficult for the chamber to become compromised by jungle mud. Defense-style 37s with barrels as short as 13 inches have been used by the military and police forces around the country. The shotgun, dubbed the “featherlight,” was built in several variations.
Since Howland used the 17 as the basis for his pump, Ithaca had to wait four years and called it the Model 37. But Pedersen’s patent for the 17 didn’t expire until 1937. Plans were made to debut the 37 in 1933 as the Ithaca 33. The gun was based off John Browning’s design, but Harry Howland made a few changes to the firing pin and the ejection mechanism. Ithaca liked the sleek lines of the 17 and the bottom-eject feature. Remington’s 17 gave birth to the Model 37. Ithaca Gun Companyĭuring the 1930s every gun company was trying to build a pump better than Winchester’s Model 12. Ithaca Model 37 The M37 is still in production. There was a “security” model manufactured in the 1920s that had a 20-inch barrel and cylinder bore choke. The 17 had a four-shot magazine with barrel lengths that ran from 26 up to 32 inches. You simply loosened it, and the barrel slid forward. The fore-end cap could not be removed from the Model 17. This sleek pump-action shotgun was only available in 20-gauge. Remington couldn’t bring it to the civilian market until 1921 (post World War I) because much of its manufacturing was tied up in supplying military arms. The Model 17 technically was born in 1913 from a John Browning design patented in 1915 and sold to Remington Arms. Remington Model 17 John Browning and John Pedersen collaborated on the design of the Model 17, though Pedersen altered the gun before it went into production. Loomis updated the 10 with the Remington 29 in 1930. An original condition 10R is considered a collectable and quite valuable. A wooden hand guard acted as a heat shield, and the shotgun had lug adapters to affix a bayonet. The Model 10 never became widely popular among hunters, but a limited number of them designated as the 10R (for riot) were used in World War I.
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