Ithaca 3E Double Trap gun

[Silvers]

Here's a Number (Grade) 3E Ithaca NID 32 incher with Vent Rib and double triggers I got from a member a few months ago. Chokes are pretty tight at 44/1000 in both barrels. Not your typical sporting clays gun but she did pretty well today on the course. Let's see what she does at the Northeast SxS long range targets against Tool Man's new to him Parker 32 VR Double Trap gun. Same against Mountain Mike's Parker 32 VR Live Bird gun. Should be interesting!

frank

[Researcher]

Love it!! Never owned a No. 3. Have or had Field Grades, No. 1s, 2s, and 4s. Back when I was in college, my father and I spotted an ad in the Seattle Times for a No. 3E Magnum-10, and upon calling the seller lived only a couple of blocks from us on Queen Anne Hill. Nice, interesting gun, of limited usefulness, and too spendy for a union carpenter with a kid in college!!

A good shooter like Frank could best most of us using a Western Arms Long Range.

[Stan Hillis]

Another nice one, Frank.

How I wish I could be with y'all to shoot those events! I'm just too involved with farming to leave at that time of year. Maybe things will change someday. In the meantime please continue posting updates and pics. It means the world to some of us who can't attend.

Stan

[Stan Hoover]

Nice Ithaca there Frank,
My first (Double Trap) Ithaca is/was a grade 3E with 30" barrels. Yours looks like it could almost be a brother to mine, same vintage with the cocking indicators and the shorter beavertail fore end. The differences would be mine has 30" barrels and a single selective trigger.
Yours with double triggers is definitely a plus in most peoples eyes and much more uncommon. From my observations, most Ithaca double Trap guns came with SST's.
I have soft spot for Ithaca grade 3's.
Stan Hoover

Can't wait to see the competition at the Bo Whoop event

[Silvers]

Thanks gents, yes she's a nice one and shoots really well. Like many others I have a soft spot for Ithaca NID's and although it's heresy they have some mechanical pluses over the A H Fox design, though the frame panels don't look quite as sexy imo. This 3E's serial number would seem to indicate a 1927/28 year gun as per Walt Snyder's listing but the Cody letter shows shipment in November 1936. Tough days and tight money during those days of the Great Depression. frank

[Rbishop]

Love it!! Never owned a No. 3. Have or had Field Grades, No. 1s, 2s, and 4s. Back when I was in college, my father and I spotted an ad in the Seattle Times for a No. 3E Magnum-10, and upon calling the seller lived only a couple of blocks from us on Queen Anne Hill. Nice, interesting gun, of limited usefulness, and too spendy for a union carpenter with a kid in college!!

A good shooter like Frank could best most of us using a Western Arms Long Range.

My daughter lived in Seattle for a few years. Queen Anne district was a favorite place to go for the views at the top! Sorry to be off topic! Nice Ithaca!

[Researcher]

The view from Kerry Park, on the wealthier side of Queen Anne Hill, over the city to Mt Rainier has certainly been used in a lot of movies.

See May 2013 Card of the Month for A.S. Kerry's Fox.

[Fin2Feather]

Beautiful gun Frank. I've been thinking I ought to try to find an actual double trap gun. I have my Knick and my Parker for singles but I don't have anything for doubles except my regular sxs's, and I just can't bring myself to shoot an O/U .

[Jeff S]

Very nice gun. Sounds like Frank has “throw down the gauntlet” for Steve and Mike. Should be an exciting weekend at Hausmann’s.

[Silvers]

Yes should be exciting to see some new heavy Iron being fielded at the Bo-Whoop long range targets but really, any most any gun can win the trophy and purses. As they say "if you're on, you're on". Remember when the B-W was won by the late George Griscom with a 28" Sterly Field gun he bought that day and shot cold turkey for score, no practice rounds.

Sure would be nice to see some our members with their custom stocked Foxes that grace our forums out shooting whether for the Bo-Whoop or on the courses.

frank

[kgb]

Beautiful Ithaca, and nice-condition BL Beretta in that rack as well.

[44whiskey]

ithaca has an art deco look that is somewhat unique and that i am very partial too. beautiful gun

[Researcher]

I just noticed the double triggers!! Sweet!! Not often we see ejectors, vent rib and beavertail without a single trigger.