Yep, the Ithaca has a bolt safety, is very light and easy-to-carry, and is also a good, solid shotgun! The safety also reverses for us lefties . . . a great thing!!!
The only thing wrong with a light shotgun like my 20" barrel Ithaca DSPS 12 gauge slug gun is that it kills at both ends.
Funny thing is . . . I didn't feel a thing when I busted two bucks in mere seconds back in '99 in that hardwood bottom. The first I shot at 75 yards . . . then its partner bolted right to me, and I busted it and it bounced of the tree I was in as it fell at a full run.
That old Ithaca got retired . . . by the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission back around 1991 . . . after giving some agent great, reliable service . . . SINCE 1969! Heck, that's the year I graduated from high school and the parkerized slug gun is still in top form.
It still gives me great service today, and still sometimes accompanies me on deer hunting trips on the rainy days.
Yep . . . a good, solid shotgun indeed . . . and it still ALWAYS puts three huge rifled slugs into 1 1/2" . . . at point of aim . . . at 100 yards from the bench. OPEN SIGHTS TOO.
One fabulous-shooting shotgun indeed!
T.
