Home Forums Birds & Dogs Shotguns A plug for Ithaca Gun Company, Upper Sandusky, Ohio

I don't have a picture of my first Ithaca. But I got it at Wilcox Bait and Tackle around 1979. It was the first firearm of ever owned. It had a 26" fixed improved cylinder choke. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to use buckshot in an IC choke back then. Neither did any deer I took. But then I discovered it would fire foster slugs like no ones business. I could break bottles with it at 75 paces. Just aim down the rib like a rifle. I had that gun for a lot of years and ended up trading it for something "cooler." Didn't take long to regret it. Picked up another used one years later, but it wasn't the same. Sold that. And was Ithaca-less until I got my current Ithacas some years ago. Still not the same, but the wear and tear is mine.

My first Ithaca M37 Featherlight looked like this with a 26" barrel and no sling attachment.