The first Magnum-Ten Ithaca NID, serial number 500,000 was made for Capt. Chas. Askins and was later acquired by Elmer Keith. Elmer wrote about it extensively --





Eventually the original stock gave up and Elmer had it restocked. This was discussed in his article "Long Shots and Far Away!" in the December 1965 issue of Guns & Ammo, from which I got these pictures.