winchester '97
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So i just toured Ithaca gun Company last week and got to see how they make their shotguns, VERY impressed with the quality of their product, It truly is 100% American made, with a price tag to suit. I'll post this here since it deals with both Shotguns and Pistols.
Some of the things i saw were:
Receivers being made for Model 37's on CNC machinery, then being hand finished and fitted together by assembly staff. They check Tolerances to half a thousandth of an inch. They cut internal parts out and engrave with machines that are accurate to as the tour guide decribed, to 1/4 the thickness of a sheet of paper.
The Repair shop, run by a master gunsmith.
Their upcoming over/under shotgun intended for trap and skeet, a lightweight field model is coming soon. It felt really nice, swung and pointed extremely well. MSRP is about 2500 dollars.
Their Model 37 trap gun, available in 2 rib heights and retailing for about 900. If i had to get a gun for trap other than my model 12 this would be it.
A model 37 home defense gun that comes factory standard with a collapsable AR type stock.
A model 37 HD/Police backup gun that comes factory standard PGO with a 14 inch barrel.
Their upcoming 1911, a factory ready competition/target grade pistol that comes in a very nice fitted hardcase that locks and holds extra mags and a cleaning kit. It felt very nice, balanced well and the trigger was simply awsome. It will run 2 to 3 grand apparantly, and is completely machine made with no hand fitting so all 1911 parts will fit. It really blows the new Remington 1911 out of the water. The Remington feels chincy, reminds me alot of the cheap POS chiappa 22 i traded back in the day i bought it.
So i came home lusting after their fine products and genuinely impressed, their focus is on quality, their attitude seems to be it will be done when its done because we are going to do it right, no cut corners and no exeptions.
Their graphic artist, who can turn any picture you bring her into a program that can be used to engrave it onto the side of a Model 37 and then gold inlayed if you so choose. The most interesting was a Stryker fighting vehicle ingraving made for the crew of one of these vehicles to present to their TC/vehicle commander.
And the stock works, where their master assembler will custom make a stock for any of their guns to the demensions you provide, In this same room was the air drying racks for stock blanks, with they dry at the factory for 3 years or so before touching them. They will be making changes with their wood supplier so as to have better control over what is considered AA and AAA grade wood.
So, any questions?
Some of the things i saw were:
Receivers being made for Model 37's on CNC machinery, then being hand finished and fitted together by assembly staff. They check Tolerances to half a thousandth of an inch. They cut internal parts out and engrave with machines that are accurate to as the tour guide decribed, to 1/4 the thickness of a sheet of paper.
The Repair shop, run by a master gunsmith.
Their upcoming over/under shotgun intended for trap and skeet, a lightweight field model is coming soon. It felt really nice, swung and pointed extremely well. MSRP is about 2500 dollars.
Their Model 37 trap gun, available in 2 rib heights and retailing for about 900. If i had to get a gun for trap other than my model 12 this would be it.
A model 37 home defense gun that comes factory standard with a collapsable AR type stock.
A model 37 HD/Police backup gun that comes factory standard PGO with a 14 inch barrel.
Their upcoming 1911, a factory ready competition/target grade pistol that comes in a very nice fitted hardcase that locks and holds extra mags and a cleaning kit. It felt very nice, balanced well and the trigger was simply awsome. It will run 2 to 3 grand apparantly, and is completely machine made with no hand fitting so all 1911 parts will fit. It really blows the new Remington 1911 out of the water. The Remington feels chincy, reminds me alot of the cheap POS chiappa 22 i traded back in the day i bought it.
So i came home lusting after their fine products and genuinely impressed, their focus is on quality, their attitude seems to be it will be done when its done because we are going to do it right, no cut corners and no exeptions.
Their graphic artist, who can turn any picture you bring her into a program that can be used to engrave it onto the side of a Model 37 and then gold inlayed if you so choose. The most interesting was a Stryker fighting vehicle ingraving made for the crew of one of these vehicles to present to their TC/vehicle commander.
And the stock works, where their master assembler will custom make a stock for any of their guns to the demensions you provide, In this same room was the air drying racks for stock blanks, with they dry at the factory for 3 years or so before touching them. They will be making changes with their wood supplier so as to have better control over what is considered AA and AAA grade wood.
So, any questions?
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