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Disillusionment strikes hard, sometimes.
Those guns are not easy to work on when parts are in decent shape, and there is no material relationship to any other gun but the predecessor, the Model 10.
Absolutely no similarity to the Ithaca 37 other than bottom feed/eject, and many of the parts out there will be from worn out specimens.
I can take apart and rework a bit of these guns, but the "smart" gunsmiths will tell you to hang it on the wall when it breaks.
The intelligent gunsmiths will only work on one if it is nearly new condition in wear, since they suck time until the repair is way over budget for what you might charge, and probably still has a balky pump. That is the hallmark of a worn down example- failing to pump easily back and forth when clean, since the tracks and guides wear enough to allow the bolt to move around too much and create a bind in this place or that.
If you ever see one that has the lower side of the bolt look to be dragging across the top section of the trigger guard, you have a well-worn example.
Failing to fling out a fired shell, feed properly from the tube, an out-of-position magazine hanger, cracking of the stock around the tang, wearing the pump arm lug and/or having poor operation of the release button-----
Take your pick of these or the other dozen main grief causing conditions to hang your thinking cap.
Get one of these to work fine and you really have made your "bones" or earned your stripes.
See what working on more than a few trash guns has gotten me?
Don't let insight create cynicism.
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