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Just picked up a straight stock Ithaca Flues 16 bore. Where the grade is usually present on the water there is an S, instead of a grade #. What do i have?
I love the look Hobbs, my Vizsla, gives me following my second miss in a row.
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Unusual to find one with a straight grip. Wonder if it's the original stock, or perhaps modified from PG to straight.
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1918 E.C. Simmons catalog. Field with Smokeless Powder Steel not shown. No. 1 and No. 1 1/2 were also offered with "Fluid Steel" or "Nitro Steel", No. 1 Special: Cockerill Steel 
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Thanks for the info... The wood is definitely replacement, as it is not checkered. But it appears as it was originally a straight stocked gun, as the trigger tang is the long version, and the shape of the long tang is identical to the straight stock Flues Gr. 3 12 I have, except for the lack of engraving. And the metal condition of the tang is consistent with the rest of the gun. The gun was made in 1913, and has "smokeless powder steel" barrels.
The Stock has a black butt plate with a capital M in the middle of it. The wood used for the restock is consistent with a Grade 1 or 1 1/2, so I think I will send the gun out to be checked in the correct style, and add a period correct pad to the gun to get it to my LOP requirement.
I love the look Hobbs, my Vizsla, gives me following my second miss in a row.
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Also, would the correct pad for a 1913 Ithaca be Sunburst?
I love the look Hobbs, my Vizsla, gives me following my second miss in a row.
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Also, would the correct pad for a 1913 Ithaca be Sunburst? No. The Ithaca "bridge trestle" pad came out 1931-2. In 1913 the only recoil pads being offered were the Silvers and a similar pad called Grieb which was cheaper.
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Thanks Researcher, I have a Baker Trap gun that had a grieb pad, and I think they are near impossible to source, and I have never seen a facsimile produced.
I will go Silvers!
I love the look Hobbs, my Vizsla, gives me following my second miss in a row.
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