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Posted: 2/13/2011 3:52:23 PM EDT
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Thanks for all the good insight guys. Looks like many of you are intimate with the M37!
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Posted: 2/13/2011 4:50:15 PM EDT
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The Model 37 can put 54 pellets of 00 buckshot (.33 caliber) down range as fast as the trigger can be pulled and the forearm cycled. (Once the trigger was pulled for the first shot, the disconnector allows the gun to fire all the ammunition in its magazine by merely cycling the forearm.) In this regard, it puts your average submachine gun to shame.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 4:59:10 PM EDT
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Mine looks like the fourth one down in that pic. Tons of fun and accurate to boot with slugs. Ran into a 26 inch vent ribbed improved cylinder barrel for bird hunting a few years ago for it too.
Stock on mine isn't so pretty anymore though.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:02:49 PM EDT
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The Model 37 can put 54 pellets of 00 buckshot (.33 caliber) down range as fast as the trigger can be pulled and the forearm cycled. (Once the trigger was pulled for the first shot, the disconnector allows the gun to fire all the ammunition in its magazine by merely cycling the forearm.) In this regard, it puts your average submachine gun to shame. http://www.black-talon.org/RKBA/SG/M37_x_6_1000.jpg I'll take the third one down from the top....or maybe the Trench Gun! 
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:16:49 PM EDT
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The Model 37 can put 54 pellets of 00 buckshot (.33 caliber) down range as fast as the trigger can be pulled and the forearm cycled. (Once the trigger was pulled for the first shot, the disconnector allows the gun to fire all the ammunition in its magazine by merely cycling the forearm.) In this regard, it puts your average submachine gun to shame. http://www.black-talon.org/RKBA/SG/M37_x_6_1000.jpg Now you're just showing off goddamit...... 
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:22:21 PM EDT
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I have a rib vented 37 12ga with 2 3/4 chamber improved cylinder choke. It was a Christmas gift from my mom back in the mid 80's.
I dont know the value of it on the market, but to me its priceless.  |
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:22:40 PM EDT
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Oooops Double tap!
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:30:00 PM EDT
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A couple of years ago, I picked up a High Standard K120 Riot Gun-it looks very similar to these Ithacas,and it was a police turn-in. High Standard even stamped "Riot" right on the barrel. It has a beautiful walnut stock, extended mag, and rifle sights. It set me back a whole $200. Here's a crummy pic of it:
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:33:52 PM EDT
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I have wanted one too. I had a DS Police Special  I miss it and cannot find a classic 37, someday. |
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:37:57 PM EDT
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Bought one just like the one in the first post. Is like new and was built in 1978. Still has a sticker on receiver that says Property of Illinois sec. of state police.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:38:52 PM EDT
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Gun shop near me had one a few years back right next to a High Standard riot gun...now I wish I had bought it.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 5:48:44 PM EDT
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This is mine. 72 vintage. Love the pattern on the stock
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Posted: 2/13/2011 6:37:10 PM EDT
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This is mine. 72 vintage. Love the pattern on the stock http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/mgvince/DSC_01840446.jpg WOW!!! That's a beautiful stock! Oh, and I'm sure the rest of the gun is fine too.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 6:45:14 PM EDT
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I had a DS Police with the rifle sights, and I managed to get a polymer pistol grip stock for it, from Bushmaster of all places. Selling that gun was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
And it DID NOT slam fire. The disconnector didn't work on the trigger. It held the hammer back until the gun was in battery, then it released the hammer. Fun stuff.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 6:46:37 PM EDT
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Featherweights and Winchester mdl 12's. Best shotguns ever made.
The riot guns are hard to find, but the hunting models are pretty common in pawnshops around central Texas. I picked up a 16 ga. right before dove season. 
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Posted: 2/13/2011 6:52:24 PM EDT
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A couple of years ago, I picked up a High Standard K120 Riot Gun-it looks very similar to these Ithacas,and it was a police turn-in. High Standard even stamped "Riot" right on the barrel. It has a beautiful walnut stock, extended mag, and rifle sights. It set me back a whole $200. Here's a crummy pic of it: http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh63/jeep442007/S6000333-1.jpg I have the same gun! The damn thing is built like a tank. Paid $185.00 for mine in '96. |
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Posted: 2/13/2011 6:52:53 PM EDT
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NFA'd back in 1996. 12GA
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:09:59 PM EDT
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NFA'd back in 1996. 12GA
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n197/mudflapper_2007/Ithaca37SBS.jpg I have one of the greenish parked ones as well (yours looks that way to me from the pic), Mine isn't that short though.  I think they called the one I have the stakeout model, it came with a pistol grip from the factory.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:12:47 PM EDT
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For some reason, I really want to get my hands on an older Ithaca 37 riot gun. A buddy's Dad had one of these, and we used to fire it quite a bit. Now I want one for myself. 20" cylinder bore, parkerized, like this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/jeyster/k118814_shotgunUSIthacaM37riotgun.jpg Does anyone out there like Ithaca weapons? Seems like it would be a damn nice (daylight) gun for HD. And yes, I already have a few 870s, one with a Surefire 618FA mounted. One that looks like new on gunbroker http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=215874245 |
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:15:14 PM EDT
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Yes, this one was factory @ 20" before I cut it down.
I had a DS police model a while back...it had a heavy green park...earned the nick name 'Hulk"
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:18:36 PM EDT
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Been wanting one myself for some time......maybe I'll get lucky one day and stumble on to one at a steal deal.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:19:16 PM EDT
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I've been searching for one for quite some time, myself.
Plain wood, parkerized finish, 18.5" barrel, plain receiver and standard magazine. |
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:21:56 PM EDT
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Most underrated shotgun of all time.
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:27:34 PM EDT
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I have 2 one used to be my Dad's it is 26 inches and vent rib nice wood. Mine is a ex-police gun with a sidesaddle reparked and the original wood was rough so I bought a set of Choate plastic which was the factory furniture . I sold my Deer slayer years ago and miss it .
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:35:45 PM EDT
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Bought this one a few months ago. Don't know how I ever got by without it.
Bought this one at a gun show in Dallas. Some minor rust and pitting, but the price was right. 
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Posted: 2/14/2011 8:33:34 AM EDT
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NFA'd back in 1996. 12GA
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n197/mudflapper_2007/Ithaca37SBS.jpg Holy shit that weapon is SEXY!
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Posted: 2/14/2011 8:44:12 AM EDT
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Is that one of the old shotguns you could slam fire by holding down the trigger while pumping it? The older ones would do that. My 1982 edition would still slam fire but I think they quit that feature shortly after that. It was cool to do. Once. After that it was just a waste of ammunition and unsafe as well. Accuracy was minute of barn. Nice guns but a bear to take apart. You have to remove the buttstock. The takedown procedure in the Ithaca manual goes for close to twenty pages. Sold mine a while ago and never looked back. |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 8:59:46 AM EDT
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I like these cause I shoot left handed and the shells ejecting out the bottom, just like a Browning BPS has great appeal to lefty shooters.
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Posted: 2/14/2011 10:18:28 AM EDT
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I have wanted an 8rd Ithaca 37 since the first time I saw one. Between the slam fire and 8 shots it is the perfect fun pump shotgun. I have not been able to find one in my price range and had to settle for a Winchester Model 12
Well at least it holds 7 rounds, can slam fire and has the added benefit of being a take down.
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Posted: 2/14/2011 10:29:43 AM EDT
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I've got a model 37 with a 28 in. barrel. I'd like to get a shorter one, but overall I think it's a neat shotgun. I like it better than my 870.
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Posted: 2/14/2011 10:47:21 AM EDT
[#31]
I picked up a DS police special for $225 a few years ago.
My only regret is not buying the other one in the rack. |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 10:56:27 AM EDT
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Back in the 1970's and 1980's, the shooting world was pretty much the same as now except milsurp guns were actual cool german, USGI and british stuff instead of scabby commie junk.
Also, they didn't really have an emphasis on miltary looking commercial guns, people thought that a blue/walnut gun was higher quality due to the higher grade materials and increased cost for the finish. Anyway, the local gun shop got in a big shipment of used police 37 riot guns and we all fondled them and oohed and aahed. Everyone blew an O ring buying them up, but i refused on the grounds that they do not have a gizmo that keeps them from firing as the pump is stroked. I consider that a design flaw, the cops got rid of them because of all the NDs. in theory, it's a real swell johnnie commando feature, in reality, it's a bad feature, especially if you are used to an 870 aside from that, they are a tank some people don't like the bottom eject, i dont see anything wrong with it if you want a HD gun i would just buy a new 7 shot 870 for $299 |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 11:18:43 AM EDT
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Pull the trigger once, KEEP it pulled and rack away. Makes bowling pins and bad guys go away. I was going to say that an 870 can be easily had in that configuration (I have one), but 870's don't do that. |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 1:25:11 PM EDT
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http://www.warboats.org/mst2Bremmer/Stoner_ord_notes/stonerhtml/ITHACA_Model%2037_Shotgun.htm Had two like another.... |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 5:47:26 AM EDT
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Pull the trigger once, KEEP it pulled and rack away. Makes bowling pins and bad guys go away. I was going to say that an 870 can be easily had in that configuration (I have one), but 870's don't do that. In real life, i don't see anything to be gained by the 'rack away" feature. I know that ithaca took it off the 37 and renamed the gun the 87. also, police departments were ditching their 37s because of too many NDs. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 5:53:26 AM EDT
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I've got one, having shot it a whopping four times in fifteen years I'm not sure why I keep it. Had same type gun in Vietnam. Nostalgia is a powerful fool. Send me an IM and if I decide to let it go you'll be the first in line. (I'm almost 60 - be patient- all this shit has to go somewhere sooner or later) http://www.hunt101.com/watermark.php?file=479733&size=1 That reminds me of the safe room in Dawn of the Dead 1978. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 5:57:11 AM EDT
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I know that ithaca took it off the 37 and renamed the gun the 87. . No, thats not why it was renamed. The feature was taken off long before the 87 came along, and the newer 37s don't have the feature. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 6:13:00 AM EDT
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I still have mine.
model 37 M&P parkerized metal plain wood. 8 shot. Less than a box of ammo through it. Bead front sight, nothing on the rear. And to the previous poster who said it kicks like a mule being raped or something, yes it does. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 6:23:32 AM EDT
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Most underrated shotgun of all time. Yep. I'd take my 37 over my 870 everytime. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 12:45:57 PM EDT
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Pull the trigger once, KEEP it pulled and rack away. Makes bowling pins and bad guys go away. I was going to say that an 870 can be easily had in that configuration (I have one), but 870's don't do that. In real life, i don't see anything to be gained by the 'rack away" feature. I know that ithaca took it off the 37 and renamed the gun the 87. also, police departments were ditching their 37s because of too many NDs. The "Rack Away" feature is great when shooting bowling pins against the clock. Trust me on this. Once I figured out how to do it right my times came WAY down and my placement went way up. Unless I fail to knock one of of the table. The bottom loading works against you. |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 12:58:51 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Most underrated shotgun of all time. Yep. I'd take my 37 over my 870 everytime. There is no comparison. Ithaca 37 FTMFW! |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:05:43 PM EDT
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Ithaca is still in business. Google them. Making new and doing repairs. All i've got is ithaca. And they're a really rare find at gun shows around here.
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:13:35 PM EDT
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I've got a 20" barrel, extended tube and extended spring laying around my spare parts box if anyone is in the maket to upgrade their 37 to a riot gun. PM me if interested.
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:15:01 PM EDT
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Quoted: NFA'd back in 1996. 12GA http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n197/mudflapper_2007/Ithaca37SBS.jpg Fap fap fap fap |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:28:33 PM EDT
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I've been looking for reasonable deal on a 8 shot model 37 for a couple years. I really screwed up when I didn't grab one years ago. There was a time when there were oodles of police trade-ins in the gun shops for cheap $.
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:35:46 PM EDT
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Got this ugly bastard for $171 last week.
The action is beyond smooth. 
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Posted: 2/15/2011 1:49:33 PM EDT
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Back in the 1970's and 1980's, the shooting world was pretty much the same as now except milsurp guns were actual cool german, USGI and british stuff instead of scabby commie junk. Also, they didn't really have an emphasis on miltary looking commercial guns, people thought that a blue/walnut gun was higher quality due to the higher grade materials and increased cost for the finish. Anyway, the local gun shop got in a big shipment of used police 37 riot guns and we all fondled them and oohed and aahed. Everyone blew an O ring buying them up, but i refused on the grounds that they do not have a gizmo that keeps them from firing as the pump is stroked. I consider that a design flaw, the cops got rid of them because of all the NDs. in theory, it's a real swell johnnie commando feature, in reality, it's a bad feature, especially if you are used to an 870 aside from that, they are a tank some people don't like the bottom eject, i dont see anything wrong with it if you want a HD gun i would just buy a new 7 shot 870 for $299 I'd have to disagree with this, I used an 870 in 20 gauge from age 12 to 18 when I got the first Ithaca in 12 gauge, so you could say I was used to the 870, even now almost 9 years later I have to concentrate really hard when I'm playing around with the Ithaca trying to slam fire, otherwise I fire a shot and my finger automatically releases the trigger. Either way it wont fire until the pump is fully forward, it cant fire out of battery. |
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Posted: 2/18/2011 9:00:18 AM EDT
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Got this ugly bastard for $171 last week. The action is beyond smooth. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/Avtomat/i37.jpg Looks good to me! Hell I know where Vass is....somewhere near Southern Pines and Fort Bragg if I'm not mistaken.
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Posted: 2/18/2011 9:11:07 AM EDT
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I love Ithaca shotguns. I'll take one in vintage LAPD trim, thank you.
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Posted: 2/18/2011 9:12:11 AM EDT
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I've got an Ithaca DS Police Special Featherweight in the "bead blasted/nickel" finish.
Dad used to use it as a slug gun for deer. Fun to hold down the trigger and pump the action. Compared to a Remington 870, it kicks like a bastard. |
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