Sorry, I appologize for overlooking the obvious question. When I toured the Ithaca Gun Factory some years ago, I was taken back by the whole place. It was, as you may know, a product of a few concerned, old employees scraping together enough capitol to buy the Ithaca Gun Company and produce a quality gun product that had been allowed to go downhill from previous owners. Their factory was an old school with all the old technology and equipment from the previous location in Ithaca. There were belt driven barrel lapping machines that came from the Industrial Age (early 1900's) still turning out beautiful specimens. The entire factory was pretty much empty of people, except for a handful of workers. Admittadly, we were there after normal hours, but you could see just how hard they were struggling to make a go of the new company. They showed us their product......model 37's. That's it! Some were custom and very beautiful, others were police models designed for unitarian service. But.....just one model and that is the identical model 37 that was built with the care and love that made Ithaca famous for quality and design of the milled, one-piece receiver, bottom loading, bottom ejection.
Jim
