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I want to replace front metal bead with modern front sight containing tritium insert. I need to know what thread size to order. The gun in question is 20ga New Ithaca Double extractor gun w/o cocking indicators. Thanks in advance.
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You trying make a'salt shootz gun ?
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jager: just curious, what would be gained by changing the front sight of a double gun?
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Jag, consulting an Ithaca service manual, it could be--"brass threaded (no thread info stated), a a Lyman #10 plug , a Lyman #10D screw type OR a 6-48 RayBar." I think you said it now has a brass sight so my suggestion is to unscrew it and measure the threads. My guess is it will be a 3-56 based upon a brass sight I have in front of me. Sorry I can't be more definitive.
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jager: just curious, what would be gained by changing the front sight of a double gun? He's going for the glow in dark look...
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Thank you. I'm just trying to modernize the gun a bit and make it more appealing to greater number of potential buyers if I ever try to sell it. You know, increase the pool of potential buyers. I'm going to order one of them Marble Sights when I figure exactly what thread size I need.
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By altering the gun, you actually decrease the size of the pool, not increase. I don't know where you get the notion that hotrodding an NID makes it attractive to a larger pool unless you replace the action with an AR receiver, barrels with .223 barrel and stock and forend with AR plastic stock and forend. Who pays attention to a bead when wingshooting?? (conceding deer or turkeys where bead would be useful, but a 20 NID is not a preferred gun of choice for either.) If you feel the need to use a tritium bead, charge on, but forget about it making the gun more marketable by doing so.
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By altering the gun, you actually decrease the size of the pool, not increase. I don't know where you get the notion that hotrodding an NID makes it attractive to a larger pool unless you replace the action with an AR receiver, barrels with .223 barrel and stock and forend with AR plastic stock and forend. Who pays attention to a bead when wingshooting?? (conceding deer or turkeys where bead would be useful, but a 20 NID is not a preferred gun of choice for either.) If you feel the need to use a tritium bead, charge on, but forget about it making the gun more marketable by doing so. I agree, I also think that would not only decrease its value but the pool of potential buyers. An NID, while a great American classic, is not exactly in your top tier of American classics as far as collectors are concerned. Or, in other words, comparing their prices, no one is "chomping-at-the-bit" to buy an NID especially one that has been 'modernized.'
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It's your gun do what you see fit. But If I was looking for a 20G NID would pass on a glow front sight gun as a possible indicator of something else messed up not so easy to spot.
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I'm not at all concerned about Jagermeister adversely affecting the value of a smallbore N.I.D. by installing a tritium sight. I'd guess that what he is actually doing is attempting to manufacture some legitimacy by posing as a double gun owner. He recently admitted that he didn't even own a double gun, and that his one and only shotgun was a modern short barreled Ithaca Model 37 pump that he had previously tried to pawn off as a military trench shotgun. Hell, this is a guy who actually rents the .22 LR rifle he claims to use. Here's Jagermeister only 6 days ago congratulating Lloyd on his actual purchase of a 20 ga. Flues: This brand consistently delivers very good quality for price paid. I have seen knockabout grade 20ga extractor gun marked New Ithaca Double. It had good wood, nicely finished rib, wood checkering and matting on top of action to prevent glare. The price was well under $1000. No other classic American small-bore can come close in quality to price to that offering. Enjoy your new treasure. Doesn't sound like comments from a bona fide owner of a 20 ga. N.I.D. to me. Yes, he could have actually bought it, and those pictures of Obama shooting a shotgun could actually be legitimate. But I wouldn't bet on either. Maybe Jag will post some pictures as proof, and then I'll post some pictures of the Czar's Parker and Bo Whoop as proof that I own them. Here's the Czar's Parker. I'm thinking of putting a tritium sight, Dura Kote, and sling swivels on it. Maybe camo paint on the stock, and choke tubes too. What do you think? 
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