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ITHACA 87 VS 37

SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2006 in Ask the Experts
Got a question. I know the Ithaca M87 has a 3" chamber while the older 37's had a 2 3/4". But is there any weight or other differences between the 2 models?

Thanks......Scout
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Additional questions. Will the barrels interchage between the 37 and 87? I know the barrels on 37's interchange after I think 1985 and I assume the 87 was introduced in 1987. Comments please.

    Thanks again ......SCOUT
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Come on boys help me out.
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  • bud_light_goodbud_light_good Member Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the ithaca Acquisition corp acquired the assets of the ithaca gun co. during 1987 and renamed the gun model 87, the name has been changer again to the m37 after the assets of the ithaca Acquisition Corp. were purchased in may 1996 by the ithica gun company,llc.

    so under my beliefe the barrels should interchange because they are the same gun,accordin to what i have found, could not find a weight difference, because they are the same gun!!!good luck and besafe if you do try to change the barrels,make sure they are excatly the same,

    Terry
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bud,

    Thanks that makes sense. I knew the company had changed hands before. I didn't know it had changed twice. I even scoured the local shops trying to find a 87. There is a 87 on the site I may buy for my son.

    Thanks again........SCOUT
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  • gunguy56gunguy56 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ithaca guns are no longer manufactured, as the company went out-of-business again-probably for the last time. Love those 37/87's-probably the best designed pump gun ever made. Love those Win Mod 12's too, but the Ithaca design, with bottom ejection and the barrel takedown system is hard to beat. On Jan 17, 2006, FN Herstal, parent of the USRAC, announced that the old Win plant in Conn, maker of Win guns for 140 years, is closing it's doors on Mar 31, 2006. Olin Ind still owns the "WINCHESTER" name. Who knows who will be next. Sad state-of-affairs for the US gun manufacturers.
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  • DaBowMan18DaBowMan18 Member Posts: 2,962
    edited November -1
    I am 98% sure that the barrels will interchange. I believe i heard it somewhere. Bud pretty much covered it. They are basically the same gun
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  • bud_light_goodbud_light_good Member Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    scout your very welcome, good luck,

    winchester i was told will still be made but over seas in Japan?[xx(]
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