Originally Posted By: TwiceBarrel
As I remember Ithaca made some low end double guns using malleable iron recevers. If I remember corretly malleabl iron was used on Nitro Specials and perhaps Western Long Range models.


My understanding is that was one difference between the Nitros and the Westerns: the Nitro has a case hardend action while the Westerns were malleable iron. But as Dennis Miller used to say back when he was still funny. "I could be wrong."

Last edited by Fin2Feather; 05/28/13 09:32 PM.
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