But like many American manufactures (not just gun makers) during the 1940s, they filled government contracts. The Ithaca Gun Company is known for the classic Model 37. These are almost custom pistols with beavertail grip safeties, skeletonized hammers and triggers, stainless steel two-piece guide rods and other hand fitted parts only found on higher end pistols chambered in. The new Ithaca 1911 is a far cry from the ones they made during WWII. They are now located in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and are manufacturing some of the best shotguns the company has ever made, which is what they’re known for, but like most other gun manufactures today they are getting back into the 1911 market, too. The past few years has seen resurgence in the Iconic gun maker. Any of these that came to the factory for service were converted back to the original shell stops at no charge.The Ithaca Gun Company is making 1911s, again. All these Model 37's had the serial number prefix of 381. They were reverted back to the original shell stops that year. ****In 1974, Ithaca tried a design change in the shell stop system, which proved to be faulty. The Skeet Grade was discontinued after 1954. The Trap Model was returned to the general listing by 1954 as the Target Grade. The special sequences for the Solid Rib were abandoned by 1949 when they were included in the General pump listing. Skeet Model numbers were 80000 - 89999, and the Trap Model numbers were 88000 to 89000. The initial sequence of numbers for the Solid Rib was 70000 to 79999.
***In 1941 the company reserved blocks of serial numbers for Solid Rib, Skeet and Trap models. This company went out of business around 1915 ** LeFever guns numbered under 10000 are built by the old LeFever Arms Company located in Syracuse NY. "a few variances in this data will be found" *Originally Compiled by The Ithaca Gun Co., October 1960.
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