Strippinf ithaca 37 shotgun
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That dissolved all the oil & dirt so everything was nice and clean by the time I had to handle them again.
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Yeah, your trigger group looks greasy! I put all my interior action parts into a jar of acetone while I was stripping and sanding the parts to be blued. Here's a link to a video showing the later, solid butt stock: I suppose the hollow was intended to reduce weight and/or adjust the balance point of the gun (mine weighs just 6 lbs., 4 oz.). They must have changed that feature at some later date. There's not much meat in those surfaces.Īlso, my stock has a very hollowed out interior back of the receiver bolt the sides of the butt stock are only about 3/8" thick in that area and I'm wondering if yours is that way too? I saw a later model 37 and the butt stock was not hollowed out, but was solid with just a long channel drilled to allow access to the receiver bolt.
STRIPPINF ITHACA 37 SHOTGUN SERIAL NUMBERS
Does your stock have the serial number stamped in, like mine does? I was thinking that maybe they quit doing that once they got to five digit serial numbers because they'd run out of room in that stock/receiver mating area. Hey, making progress! I have a couple of questions for you. The first 71-years have not been nice to this gun.
STRIPPINF ITHACA 37 SHOTGUN CRACKED
The wood on the forend looks alright, but the butt stock is cracked and chipped very badly. The barrel is a factory MOD choke and the bore is just about perfect say for some pretty significant pitting about a half inch in on the snout end and some kind of dent on the inside of the bore about two inches back form the muzzle. There was quite a bit of rust on the chamber end of the barrel (more than what is seen on the receiver) and after a few rub-downs with Naval Jelly there is only a tiny bit of pitting and it is all cleaning up very well (the part that looks stainless). At this point I'm extremely optimistic and am thinking I'm going to try my hand at rust bluing. The one in the pics below is a 1940 vintage 12ga that has had a pretty rough first 71-years. They're very inexpensive and I've been fortunate to pick a few here and there.