doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Am I stuck with this Ithaca 10ga?

Kaveman, I new of a 50 gallon metal barrel full of ''Blowen'' Damascus barrels, most likely some are 10ga.
Are you interested in blowen barrels ? I will check with the fellow that had them, but most likely he tossed them
in the garbage. Will let you know if he still has them.

Dirty Harry

P.S. They were all blowen out right about where your hand holds the barrels. I hate to think about all the
''Mangled Hands'' their must have been.

if all you want are the 10ga bbls, put 12ga bbls on it and sell it.
heck, someone may want it w/o bbls for parts.

I beg you, leave this gun alone. I’ve yet to understand what you are doing with this.🤷🏻‍♂️
jR

I agree with John. And the OP also said it seems like a shame to cut it up... and it is.

There are other 10 ga. Damascus barrels out there that are pitted and in poor condition, that can be bought for a scrap price. But even as I type this, I know there is probably someone out there cutting the barrels of a salvageable old double in order to make a Coach Gun or table lamp.

We can't save them all, but we certainly shouldn't encourage it.

he bought it to harvest the barrels............

Exactly. I threw a low bid on it assuming it was more or less a junker but once I received it, I found that that was not the case. Hence, I'm 'stuck' with it until I come up with a better plan. I've already decided that my original plan isn't going to work,.....I'm not going to scrap the gun for the barrels. It'll find a home,.....hopefully with someone who wants it and has some tubes to swap me for it. I understand that there should be barrels full of old barrels somewhere but I also understand that I've been looking off and on for probably two decades and haven't found them. I've found an enormous quantity of $200 shotguns that are too nice to scrap and I've found a few sets of 12ga tubes that aren't quite what I'm looking for. Right now I can reach out and grab half a dozen 10ga sets of over-priced poor quality, poor condition barrels. I don't want those.

I haven't posted here in a long time, but I'm not new. Again, I know better than to destroy this gun and I'm not gonna do it. Rest easy. I'm a 'collector' of 'projects' and was heavy into the Brit doubles many yrs ago. Still have probably close to a hundred of them stashed away, mostly solid but poorer condition guns made by second and third tier makers. 3 or 4 Linders and a dozen or so plain grade American guns. Although I don't like Ithacas I gotta say this is probably one of my better guns, certainly as far as original finish goes. But I don't want it. I just need some tubes. If someone has a source I'd love to hear about it. I'm hesitant to just sell the Ithaca,......I try real hard not to buy and sell,.....but I could justify a swap.