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The downside of Flatwater is that every time I attend, I end up buying a new gun! If you are considering a purchase, just post something on the afore-mentioned board,and guys will show up with examples for you to shoot.

This time noted writer TMB showed up with an Ithaca Model 37 (I had evinced an interest in pumpguns) and I ended up buying one. In 16g.

It was a great time, and I did end up joining the 16g. Society as a result, as I'm now a multi-16 Gauger. But you will buy more guns as a result.

Happy to be on this board. Flatwater is recommended.

Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 972 Location: Keller,TX

Welcome to the fold, brother Steve! I just knew we'd gitcha! Laughing

If I can help in any way just PM me.

Brent

Welcome Steve :

It sure is good to see that you purchaced that ole 37 after all you shot the ole gun real well , Welcome aboard and it was a hoot shooting with you , I did enjoy the squad .

Hey Brent it was indeed a 50 Cal. that brought with me .

Regards Charles

Steve
Welcome to the board.

I am sure you will like that Ithaca 37. It is nice to hear that another one has gone to a good home. i have several and enjoy shooting them all, even the ones that aren't 16 s , did I say that out loud.

Send me a PM w/ the serial number, you don't have to send the whole number. And I can help you find out the year she was built.

Its a shame the notssmbbs.com doesn't seem to be taking new members. It sounds like one I would like to be a part of.

Member Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Big D

Of course you can. Every time I have tried to register I cannot get past the first page, maybe their server doesn't like macs or my web browser.

Member Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Big D

http://notssmbbs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5

Click the link and keep me informed.

Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 972 Location: Keller,TX

Not to worry Southpaw, Tiny will get you in. He can grovel almost as well as I. Laughing

Seriously, Elia, the czar, will eventially get you in.

Member Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Big D

Hi all

I ended up having to resend the e-mail a couple of times due to a problem on this end. I was wondering why I kept getting it back. Had I payed a little more attention to it I would have noticed this sooner. And not gotten a little frustrated.

Thank you for the help.

SP

This is a photo of the Marlin 90 that I finished just the night before the Flatwater shoot , Ole Ben had been hounding me to do this one up for him with the pistol grip taken off and made into a straight grip.

I took the ole girl apart placed her in the blast cabinate and hit her with a fine sand ( been using glass beads and this is not heavy enough to do a good job with the bluing ) used the Mark Lee's rust blue formula from Brownells and went to town , it all turned out just pretty fair to middlin for an ole gun .

The stock had lots of oil soaked wood in the grip section , this I removed and glass beded her so we will have long life out of this stock yet.

I ground a butt pad and put on her and ended up with a total weight of 6 lbs 8 OZ on the money a bit heavier that I wanted , but with the rush to get her done for the shoot I didnt have time to remove any metal so , So Ole Ben will have to live with the weight .

I must say she sure was an ugly duckling before I started now she is a little less ugly .

Regards Charles

Member Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 497

Charles nice work on the gun (now please tell us that ain't your bedspread) Razz

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Member Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Big D

We are on the same page Rocky. Take quite a (thin) man to sleep on that.

This is a couple of things that Ben and I have come up with .

We took these to the Flatwater shoot , the blued gun is a 16ga 26" tube with a straight stock , weight is 6 LBS 15 OZ , I shot this gun for the first time on Sunday of the shoot and was pleasantly supprised at how it performed , you can ask everyone that I shot with just how I could make this gun perform and as well as how everyone else shot it .

Now this is one that was in the car but was never taken out at the shoot so no one got to see this at the shoot , we were having way too much fun laughing so hard I simply forgot to take the thing out and show it off .

This is close up of the engraving , yes it is a 12ga I know but I was some what taken with the receiver color and engraving .

This is both guns laid out side by side for compairson.

Thought I should share this with the folks that didnt get to see this at the shoot .....

Regards Charles

Member Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 497

The 16 was a fine handling little cornsheller Charles !