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Appetizer: pan fried lake perch with a glass of reisling. Starter: chicken fried venison with country gravy and a glass of tavel. Main Course: roast elk tenderloin, wrapped in bacon, some greens (with lots of watercress) and a glass of chateau-neuf du pape. Dessert: elderberry pie...

While it's probably a Model 37, the Ithaca Model 51 also came in a Deerslayer version, and like later Model 37s, could use interchangeable barrels. Try to get a good look at it, just to double-check things. The 51's were good, but being semi-auto they were heavier than the 37's of the time.

Did my best shooting with the service rifle using the middle finger with the sling wrapped around my (trigger) forearm.

While I'd be inclined towards the CZ 527 in .223, a Winchester 70 in .22-250 would round out your Mauser collection rather nicely.

Here in my part of the Frozen North, the best deals are at guns shows or by knowing a few good gunsmiths who will show you what they haven't put out front yet. Some of the old gunsmiths around here don't do the internet, so you do have to do some legwork. It can really pay off. Otherwise...

Looks like the (1972-on) Standard. Six, maybe seven hundred bucks in minty condition. What's stamped on the barrel?

Good score.:cool:

Can still remember an Infantry Section (8-man) fire control command for "Volley Fire", but I think that it was intended as more of a suppression technique out to as far as ~800 metres, each man firing a single round, one after the other, on down the section line. Makes for a half-decent beaten...

Doc, if your barrel is stamped "Ranger", then it was being made up to around 1999.

The 870 and the PP are assembled in the same Remington plant (Ilion), with the same Remington proof marks on the barrels. DNS wrote: Was so impressed with the PP that I got a couple before they sold out up here. And I'm an Ithaca fan.

jacob2745 wrote: There was a Lightweight Carbine (as opposed to the Lightweight Rifle that followed it in production) made for a few years in the mid-80's, starting a year after yours was supposed to have been made. Yours has a 20 inch "clean" barrel? Until very recently, I pretty much...

What's stamped on the barrel?

@firme67 The Westerner had more of a straight, not angled, buttstock. Good catch on the "Ranger" model, jmr40. Was scratching my head to figure out how an '80's M70 still had pressed checkering. Thought that was disposed of with the 1972 fix. Edited to Add: firme67, come to think...

I prefer them to the 870 Express/SPS, others may differ. Solid, but oh are they heavy!

Made 1983. If it's a Featherweight or Sporter, maybe 250-300, if a Westerner, maybe 50 bucks more than that.