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When I see an NID I just start laughing and pointing, "look how ugly that thing is and you walk around with that thing in broad daylight"? If we keep it up maybe just maybe nobody will notice what a tremendous gun the NID is!!!! I'll keep the last sentence buried deep in the body of the text so hopefully no one will read down that far!!!
All the best

Have purchased 2 20 GA NID's recently. After shooting them, I wonder why I spent the money I did on Parkers and Smiths.

I don't know what world you guys are living in but NID's and now even Nitro Specials are pricey. You can't find an NID at any of the gun shows around here in 16, 20, 28 (Hah!!) or .410 for under 12 to 15 hundred. And Nitro Specials (yes, Ted, they are a damned good gun! Pretty, not really, but damned useful and with a lot better handling dynamics than any other hardware store gun) in 12 gauge sell for 400-500 with the smaller bores going for much more. Wish I could find me a nice 20 ga. NID for under a grand. Chopper.

Unfortunately, this will be at the same place you can find a nice Parker, Fox, or Smith 20 ga for under $2,000. Not sure where that would be. And they aren't getting any cheaper from what I see. Just a few years ago it was an entirely different story.

No ..... don't buy them ..... big ugly shotguns ..... Just send any you may have to PO Box 182 for for recycling.

Bouvier

I'll take the blond with implants and I bet Wonko would, too.

Here in New England, and especially northern New England, I have
always found a great deal of respect and appreciation for all Ithaca guns, and of course, the NID. Ithaca shotguns and Winchester rifles were the first choices of the older hunters in my family. They successfully brainwashed me, but I am quite happy with the results. The only slightly adverse effect is that I have drifted away from the doubles in favor of the early Model 37's, but all my daydreams of being afield are always populated with Ithacas, NID's and Model 37's.

Ed Pirie
West Topsham, Vermont

"They are hard, round, covered by a scar and ugly up close."

Friends, it all depends on the skill of the surgeon. Uh,, let's not get into how I know what I know, but I am here to tell you that some of those jobs are very nearly undetectable, both to sight and touch. I have knowledge of three jobs that you have to look VERY CLOSELY AND UNDERNEATH to see any scar at all, and even then it's hard to detect because it's hidden in a natural crease line. The only other thing I will have to say about this is that I acquired this knowledge perfectly innocently, thank you.

There is less buzz about Ithaca NIDs because there are less of them, and they were made during the Depression when production of high dollar guns was low and slow. Only about 45,000 NIDs to 222,000 Flues, 202,000 Fox, 242,000 Parker Bros., 236,000 Lefever Nitro Specials, and even about 66,000 Western Arms Long Range Doubles. There should be four our five threads each about Flues, or Fox, or Nitro Special, then about NIDs, just based on the numbers.

You guys are behind the times. Now they put them in thru the belly button and there is no visible scar............implants, not NIDS!