Blast from the Past: Inland/Ithaca Model 37 Trench Shotgun

**Slater** · 11-05-16, 09:42

I suppose these are more geared toward the collector/reinactor crowd, but they're pretty cool shotguns. This is supposed to be a remake of Ithaca's World War II trench guns. After some research it turns out that Ithaca only produced 1,442 guns in this configuration. This new Inland version is Parkerized where actual wartime examples were finished in Ithaca's commercial-quality blue. Ones made during Vietnam were Parkerized, though.

On the left side of the receiver is stamped the ordnance "flaming bomb" emblem and "RLB" (which represented Col. Roy L. Bowlin, head of the Rochester Ordnance District during WW2).

For history buffs like myself, it's close enough

**BigBuckeye** · 11-06-16, 20:29

Would love a range report.

**usmcvet** · 11-06-16, 22:04

Very cool.

**Averageman** · 11-07-16, 11:20

I had a later version of a model 37 that was a couple of decades old before I ever touched it.
It was well out of fashion and had now real collector value, I think it had been LEO issue in a former life. It was a fine shotgun and in the seventies for what was available for home defense, not too shabby.
It was so well worn that sitting up in the corner the pump handle would slide about half way down with gravity.

**Slater** · 11-07-16, 12:34

Evidently the Ithaca 37 is based closely on the old Remington Model 17, which was largely a John Browning design.

**titsonritz** · 11-07-16, 15:01

Slam fire goodness.

**HardToHandle** · 11-07-16, 21:26

Originally Posted by titsonritz

Slam fire goodness.

And the Firearms Review story specifically that the new production from Inland does have interrupters to prevent said slam firing.

Bunch of horse hockey.

**titsonritz** · 12-01-16, 12:30

Originally Posted by HardToHandle

And the Firearms Review story specifically that the new production from Inland does have interrupters to prevent said slam firing.

Bunch of horse hockey.

Bastards, that is what the '87 is for.