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I agree ithaca66, I love my NID, a 16 gauge a little over 6lbs can't beat it as every other American double I've owned has been extra heavy for the gauge, except my Ithacas.
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Sidelock
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OK, you convinced me. My field-grade NIDs are gone and I must have got lonely because I just bought a steel-barreled Flues 4E over the phone. Walking away from all those Flues SBTs that look like they'd be comfortable with butter churns and rocking chairs has been hard but I managed. Couldn't escape a double gun version.
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Where are you all finding these steel barreled Flues 4's? I wish mine had a nice set of Kupps.
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Good for you Rabbit, now, how about a picture by your fall mums!
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Go looking for a Lefever or a brittle Brit and somehow I end up with Ithaca. Could be the power of suggestion from something I saw at the Vintage Cup. Oh well, another pocket with nothing left but the hole. Lowell, if it works out, I'll pose it with a watermelon. Still waiting on the last one-stem just won't die?
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The Vega comparison doesn't hold water because the Vega was low priced or cheap compared to other makes and models. Sales of the Vega would be disappointing if it was priced around let say for arguement a Corvette!!! The Ithaca was NOT low priced its price was equal to or greater than the LC Smith or the Fox or the Parker and still people bought them over the other American doubles.
The Best Quality you might say, I'm not going there!!!
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Yes, my field grade NIDs were also curiously light. Of course one was cut.
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No. The Ithaca was for many years cheaper then the others. The Ithaca Field Grade sold for $18 when a DS-Grade Lefever, a K-Grade Remington, a 00-Grade L.C. Smith and a Sterlingworth all sold for $25.
Speaking of Ithaca, I'd like to know more about that 28-gauge pumpgun they brought out in 1911. See the second line on page 69 of the current Shooting Sportsman!!
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I stand corrected
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I have an Elsie, Fox, Ithaca, and would like a Lefever but simply do not find Parkers or Model 21's asthestically pleasing. Something about the Parker hinge-pin bolt that reminds of a large wart. 21 is like having a fat girl friend, not at all svelte.
If qualities such as simplicity, strength, and utilization of space count for anything then the Fox design would qualify it as the best gun in the world.
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