Ithaca Trench Gun Serial Numbers

The 1897 Winchester Trench gun served with American infantrymen (grunts) in WWI. While serial numbers cannot be confirmed against a verified list. Since the time the Model 1897 was first manufactured it has been used by American soldiers, police departments, and hunters. Ithaca Mdl 37 Trench gun serial numbers - posted in FIREARMS & ORDNANCE: Hello fellow Military shotgun collectors, With some help from other fellow collectors I have been able to confirm that Ithaca Trench gun serial numbers do not end at serial # 61,450. They appear to.

It's probably a converted trench gun. The trench gun barrels were not tapered at the end. Midtronics battery analyzer. All other barrels including riot barrels were. So if you put a heat shield on a non-trench gun barrel it will not be tight enough because of the taper. To get it to work fine, you will probably have to put a shim on the topside of the barrel under the bayonet lug. Most people use shims of brass or aluminum to shim them.

They don't have to be very thick and you just have to mess with it to find the right size. The 56000 serial number range denotes a 1942 built gun (according to Snyder's book 1942 = SN 50901 to 63000). The serial number appears to be a bit early for a 'real' WWII Ithaca M37 Trench Gun. According to Canfield's book the first quantity shipment of M37 Trench Guns was 19 June 1942 of 100 guns SN range from 57800 to 57995 indicated by the invoice. If it is one of the few (only 1422 WWII M37 trenchies were ever built) 'real' WWII Ithaca Model 37 Trench Guns its worth well into five figures. The M37 and the Remington Model 10 Trench Gun are reportedly the pinnacle of a collectors collection.

The guy I got my 1969 vintage M37 trenchie from was selling it (and a lot of other awesome shotguns) to fund the one WWII M37 Trench Gun he had found. Never told me what it cost him, but it looked like he was selling about $12,000 worth of trenchie/riot goodness. So, there is a slight chance you have one of only a handful of 'real' WWII Ithaca M37 Trench Guns, but according to the little bits of info I've got, it sounds like it's a bit too early. Be that as it may, the 1422 guns all had receivers devoid of the classic Ithaca hunting scene rollmarked on the sides of the receiver and those guns had a blue finish (not Parkerized).

The buttstock was smooth and the forend was of the 'rigtail' variety. Now I've got to disagree with cplnorton here a bit. Before I bought my '69 trenchie I was working on building up a clone. As it is now it is going together on a 1940 vintage M37. The barrel has been cut to the proper 20-inches and crowned and neither my reproduction East Taylor bayonet mount/heat shield nor my real set up fit loosely on the cut-down 1940 vintage barrel, rather both are extremely tight. Metro 2033 book pdf. Do you have any pics of your shotgun you can share?

What is the choke denoted on the barrel? Before you go shimming or soldering anything it might be good to look into it a bit more.and because I like to post pics. My 1940 vintage M37 Trench Gun project. I had a Model 37, featherweight, 2-3/4', full choke, no recoil pad.

Got it for xmas on my 12th birthday. This thing beat the heck out of me until I got a little bigger. But I sure could bring down ducks and geese from a long ways out! Wish I still had it. My dad bought me a used M37 from one of his buddies the summer between 6th and 7th grade and I carried it the first time that fall (1970) in ND hunting jack rabbits, cotton tails, ring necks, sharptail grouse and hungarian partridge - and squirrels - the only thing I killed that first year.