Randy, thank you for all of that. A Crass, a Lewis, and a Minier? You Sir have a remarkable collection of Ithaca guns! I don't believe that I've ever seen an example of either a Lewis or a Minier in person. My grandfather had a nicer NID 16 gauge in his gun cabinet (that happily now sits in my humble gunroom) but the NID disappeared after his demise in 1993 (& before I ever had a chance to fully examine it more closely). I believe it (and a Diamond Grade Charles Daly) went to one of my uncles (as it should have, mind you) who didn't hunt (and neither did his children) and from there, who knows where?

Sadly, no gun with tubes longer than 28-inches will fit in that local carpenter-made, Pennsylvania Black Cherry gun cabinet, so this 32-inch tubed monster will have to repose elsewhere.

I have a set of calipers around here somewhere. When I find them I'll see what this gun specs out to. I hope to shoot it today sometime.

Edit to add: I had a chat with my former boss yesterday while measuring this old gun (the owner of MW Reynolds) and he tells me that, in no uncertain terms, these new Colorado guns laws do not make any "exceptions" for 50-year old guns or even older. If any firearm is of post-1898 manufacture here, it will require a full background-check and a 3-day wait, period. If you have a C&R license then allright, you are still exempted on these older guns, but for the rest of us amateurs, no dice.

Last edited by Lloyd3; 04/24/25 06:42 AM.