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[quote=docbill]For those who are interested, Elmer's 10 ga. 3 1/2" NID lives in Houston TX. [/quote
I thought it was hanging on the wall in the Boise Cabelas with rest of his guns. Restocked in birdseye maple as I recall.
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Pat,
Glad to see you chime in here. I seem to recall one time when I visited your parents home, your Dad showed me a rather short barreled Ithaca Marnum-Ten that, if I remember the story right, he got from Elmer or one of Elmer's cronies?
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Oh, man, what was the serial number??
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I have never seen one at a gun show..not even the the big one in Tulsa OK..I think the reason so many have survived is the same as the big bore rifles..they were not daily shooters..lucky for us..but I still don't own an 8ga..I'm lookin
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She's not a 10 gauge Magnum, but here are a couple of pics of an Ithaca NID Super 10 on a recent sporting clays outing.... getting ready for ducking. Serial #43417x, made in 1926 I think. 32-incher with BT forend. Gun, boring and chokes are pretty much as described by Capt. Askins in his Modern Shotguns and Loads book. She sure powders the clays with RST 2-7/8" shells. Silvers  
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Thee is a shotgun gunsmith in Houston that collects 10 ga.s I have a copy of the 1965 G&A magazine with Elmers article on his BIG Ten. I copied the article for this fellow and gave it to him. He thanked me and said that it helped him understand that gun. He said he owns it. I have not seen it myself.
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Interesting Super-Ten Frank. That is definately first year NID metal, but that stock and forearm are of the 1935 and later style, and the aluminium base recoil pad wasn't introduced until the Summer 1950 Ithaca catalogue.
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I knew Elmer Keith back in the 1960s when I lived in Montana; visited Idaho often, and after his telling me about his NED 10 ga. mag., he convinced me to buy one too. I searched, and found one in Wisconsin, a #2 grade in excellent condition that I bought. I shot a lot of geese, ducks, and pheasants too with that gun, and I loved it. As Elmer told me, they are overbored slightly, and that is reason they pattern so well. I traded it off as part payment on a Westley Richards .375 mag. double rifle, in the 1970s. I now have in my collection, a Super 10 gauge Ithaca, #4 grade that I like too.
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Thanks Dave for your reply. I'm not sure what you mean by the aluminum base recoil pad, but this gun has an off white "set off" base on its sunburst pad. It may look like aluminum in the pic, but it's a fiber sort of material.... I can indent it with a fabric pin. Forend wood is serial numbered to the gun, on the ridge that runs between the barrels along the bottom rib. I haven't had the stock off the Super but I assume it's serial numbered also. Frank
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I knew Elmer Keith back in the 1960s when I lived in Montana; visited Idaho often, and after his telling me about his NED 10 ga. mag., he convinced me to buy one too. I searched, and found one in Wisconsin, a #2 grade in excellent condition that I bought. I shot a lot of geese, ducks, and pheasants too with that gun, and I loved it. As Elmer told me, they are overbored slightly, and that is reason they pattern so well. I traded it off as part payment on a Westley Richards .375 mag. double rifle, in the 1970s. I now have in my collection, a Super 10 gauge Ithaca, #4 grade that I like too. Too bad I was just a snot nosed teenager in the 60's. I would have enjoyed sitting with the grand old man in person and just listen. I still have all of my old Guns and Ammo mags when he was editor.
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