[quote=LeFusil]The restoration looks very tasteful and well done, even looks like he used a real Ithaca sunburst pad, a nice touch. Guys, these Ithacas are hunting guns first and foremost. Ithaca didn't make a field gun that was meant to be a collectors item.
For the most part guns don't become collectors items because of the company producing them deems them so, it usually things like first year of production, other rarities, certain markings, etc.
So when one owns a gun, I think you should look at all of the angles before you go and pretty up a gun.
Tim
I do have a clue to the "collector" mode of thinking. I dont get it though. Maybe the same reason I never understood why some kids in my neighborhood would buy matchbox cars, baseball cards, or star wars toys and keep them in the original box or wrappers and never play with them, ya they may be worth a little money down the road kept hermetically sealed up, but what fun is that?????? I never really got along all that well with those kinda kids, always thought they were a bit weird. Now when it comes to a field gun thats meant to be in the field and used, then my way of thinking is it should be used. I'm not a collector, I'm a hunter and then a shooter next. I used all of my guns and I use them hard, when they need blacking, browning, or a wood refresh, I do it. Some people might say some of the guns I own are pretty rare. Good for me I guess, I dont care. I like to use them, like the way they feel in my hands, how I shoot them and I enjoy looking at them too.
So my mode of thinking might be a little different from other peoples and I understand that, I've never been everybodys cup of tea anyways.
Last thing is first....it is his gun and he can do what he pleases with it.
Dustin
