New Ithaca 37's being shipped yet?

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The Ithaca website has not really changed in several months. Anyone konw if the new 37's have started actually being shipped yet? If so, then does anyone have a new one and would review it for us? I sold my Model 37 over 20 years ago and have regretted it since then. I am curious if the quality of the new models are all their website claims etc.
 
A few are being shipped. They are incredible to say the least. I am going to get one as soon as they get it made. They are the nicest pump i have ever seen.
 
The new Ithaca: http://www.ithacagun.com/

I wouldn't be surprised if that was a 200.00+ piece of lumber on the feather and ultra. The checkering is apparently lasered but looks decent.

They're evidently not knocking themselves out to compete with price. But my personal bet is they'll sell all they make. I'd guess they have the boutique pump market pretty much to themselves. Now we find out if there is such a thing as a boutique pump market.

Nostalgia can be a powerful force as well. Probably makes sense to start off with the high-end range when breathing life back into an old name - I sure wouldn't want to start off by marching into the pit with 870 Expresses, 500s and sundry Russian and Chinese offerings. That solderless barrel doesn't sound particularly cheap to produce but I don't know enough about barrels to comment.
 
I'd guess they have the boutique pump market pretty much to themselves. Now we find out if there is such a thing as a boutique pump market.
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Beat me to it. My thoughts exactly.

As an Express owner, I've thought about buying a Wingmaster a number of times. Instead, I've bought Over/Unders, even for hunting, and despite their being more than a fair bit more expensive than a Wingmaster.

Much as I like shooting my friend's pair of them, I haven't even ponied up for a Wingmaster, to say nothing of the new M37.

I wonder about the market.

That said, I'm intrigued, myself. Just dunno about a thousand dollars intrigued. I'm not rich; I just scrape save my money for an occasional purchase. So every such purchase is made with the awareness that a dollar spent on A can't be spent on B.

I hope Ithaca does make a good go of it, though. Might be the last pump I want to buy, given the way some other companies are going.
 
There is something to be said about having fewer, nicer guns. Guns that you buy for more than you want to spend or guns that you buy and have customized in some way.

I'd rather have my Franchi O/U, original Model 37 Featherweight pump, EMF SxS and my Browning Gold Sporting semi-auto than a box full of Saiga shotguns. But that's just me.
 
That is one beautiful piece of wood; I wonder if all of them have that quality of furniture?
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I found this on their "manufacturing process" page:
Last but not least is the matter of our butt stocks and forends.They are made from fancy black walnut that has been air dried for optimal strength and stability. The color is rich red-brown with pleasing grain and figure; the checkering is laser cut for a consistent look and feel.
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My wild guess is that it'll be much like 870TB/TC stocks in the 70s - all decent but some considerably nicer than others due to natural variability. I doubt any of them will be easily confused with birch.

That bottom eject receiver always made a nice canvas for engraving.

This should be interesting to watch.
 
I have a remington 870 and they are great guns but i so love the new ithaca's. I have an older one and its a joy to carry. Its not the tank that the 870 is.
 
I'm an Ithaca fan and love my M37. I have owned several over the years. IMO the used ones are amoung the best shotgun bargains out there. I see them all the time for $250 and less in nice shape. That does not bode well for the new high price ones, I suspect.
 
I looked long and hard at the deerslayer with the scope mount. I really like it, I hunt from a stand so a big heavy gun wouldn't bother me. I thought the wood looked great and it really seemed like a unique, beautiful shotgun. I liked the idea of a free floated, threaded barrel for a slug gun.

Then I remembered that I really didn't want to bring a $1500 unique, beautiful shotgun into the woods where it could get banged up, shoot it from a rest on my rusty stand, get rained/snowed on with it, or have my brother lay his ugly camo mossberg right on it in the back of my truck. I really don't need the longer range capability either.

I still think they are neat and if I bumped into a used one for the right price, maybe. Or maybe if I see one and just can't resist, but I don't know who will carry them either.

Now we find out if there is such a thing as a boutique pump market.
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I think the market is the issue. I think most buyers in that kind of $ range will want an O/U or a semi, although with everybody making ultramodern looking angular O/U's and semi's...maybe.

kgpcr- 28" wingmaster 7lbs, 28" featherlight 7.4 lbs, ultralight 6.5 lbs. Maybe the new ones are heavier, or maybe they just balance better or something.
 
I doubt this newest incarnation of Ithaca will succeed. The market for $900 pump shotguns is very, very small and once the diehards who have been waiting for years buy one there will be even less future demand. Remington is unable to sell very many $600 Wingmasters so a $900 gun will be in even less demand. The clay shooters who are willing to spend that kind of money buy over-unders.
 
I found a nice used one at a local pawn shop. Decent wood, fair bluing, good shape. Only thing is, someone shortened the barrel and put a Polychoke turd on it. I can probably get it for $150.00 - 175.00, and would have bought it but for the barrel modification. I can't quite decide what to do. The new ones are too pricey for me. I would rather apply that money to a nice over under.
 
Very timely - just received my monthly edition of Gun Tests magazine and it is one of the shotguns tested.
 
The Gun-Tests piece is reporting on a used Ultralight - I believe the BPS is a used example as well. Presumably, the new one hasn't landed too far from the tree but it should be appealing to a different market.
 
Really? Oh crud... sorry about that. I just saw the cover... didn't read the story. That'll teach me! :scrutiny:
 
Yeah, doesn't seem right to be making pronouncements on firearms based on the (ab)used market. If it was, I'd feel safe in proclaiming Pythons suck. Never mind the indignities mine were subjected to before I got them.

But, on the brighter side, we subscribers get to download archived stuff for free (about time).
 
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