Badger Arms
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Just discovered something I had never thought of before. Of course, normally I unload the Ithaca with the slide and trigger... the old fashioned way. But I've been putting the gun on safe and then shucking the rounds through the action for years to unload my HD gun. On a rifle thread, somebody brought up the matter of unloading a tube fed gun. Well, I looked at the Ithaca and discovered something.
You can insert your thumb into the loading/ejection well of the Ithaca and depress the right shell stop (the one that holds the rounds while the slide is in battery. When you do this, the next round in the magazine pops gently against your thumb and you can withdraw it with no stress on your body, the gun, or your psyche for fear of an unintentional discharge. Am I just REALLY slow or is this news to others as well?
BTW, didn't work on the Remington... the shell carrier blocks the path of the shell. Did work on the Mossberg though!
You can insert your thumb into the loading/ejection well of the Ithaca and depress the right shell stop (the one that holds the rounds while the slide is in battery. When you do this, the next round in the magazine pops gently against your thumb and you can withdraw it with no stress on your body, the gun, or your psyche for fear of an unintentional discharge. Am I just REALLY slow or is this news to others as well?
BTW, didn't work on the Remington... the shell carrier blocks the path of the shell. Did work on the Mossberg though!