The county I live in now sees around 10,000 deer taken each season. There were no turkeys or bear around, both of which are common today. The deer population was a small percentage of what we enjoy today. The pleasant aroma of paper shells remain a strong memory that I still enjoy on occasion.Įveryone could get a buck tag each year, but it took 3 or 4 guys together to get a "party permit" for a single doe. Foster slugs were the new technology and plastic wads were edge of the art. Of course most of us had a 22, mine was a Winchester 1890, for woodchucks and squirrels.Ī slug cost an outrageous 15 to 20 cents, so you didn't waste any. Things were pretty simple then your shotgun is what you took hunting, be it duck, grouse, pheasants, or deer. This might have applied to the Mossbergs as well. This started to change over the decade of the 70's and may have helped account for the popularity of 870's as you could knock out the 2 pins that held in the trigger group and exchange them with bolts that secured a peep or scope mounting assembly. Sights on a shotgun, other than a bead, just werent seen. Keeping 3 or 4 slugs in the plate was considered a shooter, so fully adequate for hunting. The standard target was a 9" paper pie plate at 25 yards. Neither slugs, sights, nor myself were particularly sophisticated. In those days, western NYS was a shotgun slug only for deer, no rifles. It was, and is, a marvel of well fitted parts.
Ithaca 37 shotgun 1970 mod#
It was a Remington mod 17 and cost me $25. They usually rest next to each other in that box, it seems to have runded off.īought my first gun back in 1966 or 67 from a retired bud of my fathers. OK, I'll keep looking for the bead sight box, I thought I had it when the clear compartmented box with rattle stop tissue paper in each one showed itself in the bottom of that cardboard box. I haven't changed any settings and I don't have you on ignore. I'm guessing that it might be a 3-48.but I'm not at all sure about it.īristoe, when you find out which particular bead you need, send me a PM and I'll see if I have one in my Brownells shotgun sight set.īTW, couldn't send you a PM. I'm not sure what the thread size is and I don't have a thread gauge small enough to check it. While the topic is going on, does anyone know where I can get an original type bead front sight for an early 37? (1948)Īpparently, they changed the thread size on the later models. If I could find the right 37, however, I would bring it home with me and show the kids on the 5 stand range and sporting clays course how fast an old man with a 37 can shoot. Other than my big, 3 1/2” Beretta duck gun, my shotguns these days tend to have two barrels, usually 16 gauge. The twelves are okay as duck blind guns, but the 16 is the bird gun. The 20’s are delightful little guns, but a little bit small. I still feel there is no better handling bird gun for a normal sized man than a 16 gauge 37. At some point I swapped the Deerslayer for an older (better) one, and now my other son has it. It worked well like that and was still a decent bird gun. soldered a ramp front sight on, and drilled and tapped the receiver for an aperture receiver sight. The 16 was too tight so, when my older son needed a deer shotgun, I cut it to 24 inches.
Ithaca 37 shotgun 1970 full#
First thing after getting back from SEA, I got another, 16 gauge, 28 inch, full choke. On my last duck hunting trip before going into the Navy, it was lost in a mishap. I had it for 5 years, shot my first everything with it and made a lot of priceless memories with it. I learned to completely disassemble it (and reassemble it so it still worked.) Though I didn’t quite realize it at the time, I learned what elegance in mechanical design was.
My first shotgun was a 16 gauge, 28 inch modified choke, my dad bought new in 1948.
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