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− in which he dubbed the Ithaca NID as the “The Underrated Double” − that “Parkers and Foxes get all the love from the gun writers, but the New Ithaca Double was every bit as good.

Chas. Askins the elder had a couple of NIDs he wrote about, a fully optioned 16-gauge No. 5E --

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and he got the first Magnum-10 NID, serial number 500000 a sort of No. 4E+.

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Both of those guns went on to Elmer Keith who wrote extensively about them.

The author Lon B. Smith, Shotgun Psychology, had a couple of NID trap guns he wrote about with very tight grips and outrageous Monte Carlo combs.

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The combs aren't that outrageous when you look at the drop of the butt stock. The owner must have had an awfully long neck, I suppose. Or maybe he grew up near a power line and his eye was extremely high on his forehead. smile