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I have a buddy who has an Ithaca SKB 200 E- 20 gauge he wants to get rid of. He said he wants to clear a few guns out of his safe and he said he thought $1500.00 was a good price for it. He bought it used and I have seen it at the club when he shot it and it looks like a pretty decent gun. He shoots it very well. I have read everything I can find about them and I can't find a single negative comment about them from anyone on the net. I hear they are excellent guns and they handle very well. Is there anything I should look for or be aware of? Are they as good as I have read about them? Thanks for any opinions.

I have the lesser 100. It is a fine gun other than it does not fit me. $1500 is a very good price, imo. What barrel length and chokes does it have? The 25.5'' barrels are usually IC/M. the longer 27ish''' barrels are usually M/F. Longer barrels seem to bring slightly more.

The 100s are hard to find under $1000 these days.

yo pic has become redundantly annoying...

pls delete it from your future posts...

Gotta learn to love it, ed, at least until dave upgrades the software to auto resize them. The people that love to criticize my dog, my shotguns, etc. cannot be denied their little pleasures.

Your posts are often redundantly annoying as well, yet I have not noticed that you, accomodate requests to cease your drivel.

I don't know the diff between the 100, 150, 200 but I paid $1750 for a 20 ga 150 for my wife a few years ago. It was higher because it had a Briley choke tubes and 28" barrels. They are great guns for the money although most have pretty plain wood. I owned a 12 over 40 years ago and with factory loads reccoil was a problem. I refinished the stock and found the grain was in fact painted on.

The SKB line of SxS's are pretty solid reliable cost effective guns. I've owned one and been around others in the field. I have a good friend who owned a bird hunting & dog training operation in South Dakota who used an SKB 100 12ga as his training & guiding gun exclusively for years. That gun was beat really bad but was still ticking along after years of heavy use & abuse.

The only negatives I know of about them, is the triggers can have some sloppy feeling slack in them and the wood has a tendency to crack on the sides where the stock head fits the receiver. This is due to stress risers from the points of the frame scalloping. The center point is normally where you'll find a crack if there is one. Be sure to check for cracked wood on the cheeks of the stock head, most of this cracking can be avoided by keeping the through bolt tightened & the stock firmly mounted to the frame.

Epoxy bedding the stock head never hurts either.

I have a 280E 20 gauge with straight stock and splinter forend and 28 inch barrels choked like Brent said, mod and full. Ejectors, under 7 pounds. I have killed many South Dakota wild pheasants with this gun. I bought it used about 20 years ago for $600. One of the better buys I have made. The wood is nothing to write home about and the grain probably is painted on. But, a good shooter. Good to carry all day hunting upland birds.

Yes you should buy it. They are great guns for the money.

These SKB guns are what Tony Galazan copied, (mechanically/action design), when he introduced the RBL. Take from that whatever you will, but, imo, they are well-made working guns. They won't win any contests in the aesthetics area.
JR

They are good guns. I had the exact same gun, in 20 ga., that is in question here. Killed my first Gambel's Quail with it on the first shot. I even won sub-gauge 50 bird events with it at The Fall Southern. Good triggers and good ejectors. The barrel regulation was spot-on with 7/8 oz. loads.

Now for what I didn't like about it. I didn't like the plain wood. I didn't like the, what looked to be, polyurethane finish. I didn't like the beavertail fore-end. I didn't like the cheap looking gold plated trigger finish. It had a "catch" that was annoying, about midway through the top lever travel.

I traded it off to a friend for an all original Philly Sterlingworth Ejector in 20 ga., and I gave him some money to boot. It is my quail and woodcock gun, and it has soul. I've never missed the SKB.

IMO, and other's will vary, $1500 is a strong price for it. It's a very solid gun, yes. But, it's a machine made gun and it just never much appealed to me. I'd certainly not pay $1500 for another one, regardless how good the condition. And, I'd certainly rather have my Fox, which is my go to quail and woodcock gun.

I had the 100 in 12 and 20, nice shotguns, I used the 26" 12ga for ducks even after steel became mandatory, traded it for a hand made flintlock. The 20 I used for grouse and woodcock, I decided I like two triggers better and sold it off, it was my last single trigger sxs. Solid shotguns, I had no complaints, just nothing inspiring about them. I bought them both new for about $150 when one of my suppliers were closing them out.

skb and most udder post ww2 made gons got no sole...

most gons made before ww2 come wid at least one spirit...

an ifin duh spirit like you, well din dat gon gonna shoot fur you...

if not, din yo no you is duh problem...

so, trade off dat gon fur one dat likes you...

I swear, Ed, if you can't respect the rest of us enough to type with proper grammar and spelling, why don't you just shut up? You impress absolutely no one with your pitiful excuse for Cracker dialect. And it's an insult to Southerners like myself. There are enough Americans who look down on Southerners already without you helping them out. We don't talk that way but you do everything you can to convince them otherwise.

Lord, I wish you had never lived in the South.

Ed, the reply you got from the Nutty Professor just confirms his mental illness. He has given at least four excuses thus far for using that giant photo of his starving dog as his tagline.

First he said it was meant to annoy Dustin, who was often critical of his Merkel. The inner pain from that criticism must have really cut deep!

Second, he said he did it to annoy Stan, and he added "BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)" as his signature line, and also changed his screen name to BrentD,- Prof. This was right after Stan rightly mocked his intelligence... or severe lack thereof. I'm sure Stan has suffered many sleepless nights consumed with guilt for causing him so much distress and emotional trauma.

More recently, the Nutty Professor admitted he was unable to resize the picture of his emaciated dog, and once again cried about the "antiquated software" used by this forum that apparently makes it difficult for him to post photos. In other words... he's too stupid.

Now, in yet another crybaby hissy-fit, he is telling us that we must all carry the cross of looking at his giant tagline photo, until Dave upgrades to software to auto-resize them.

Apparently, Dave is supposed to be a mind-reader, and should have known that he and we are all being held hostage to the Nutty Professor's demands and tantrum. And what is ROTFLMAO hilarious is that he expects Dave to cater to him after he ran a one-idiot campaign encouraging folks not to donate funds to this site. Most site administrators would have given this spoiled man-child the boot he deserves. He should be thankful that Dave gives him a platform to be a total ass.

As to the question of value, they are decent guns that had their day. I recently purchased a near new Browning Gran Lightning in 16 gauge at a LGS for $1500. They had it tagged as a Grade 1. Nicer wood, quality, and Invector chokes.

Considering the age, and the common problems that some have already mentioned, not sure they are worth that. But like everything else, it's what someone is willing to pay for it.

Well, I went to look at the gun today- ready to buy it. When I first saw it, I thought something looked odd- the gold medallion was down awfully close to the end of the butt stock. Someone had cut the stock down to 11 inches. About 12 1/2 inches with a 1/4 inch spacer and a dried out 1 inch white line pad. So much for that. Gorgeous gun, too.

I would have asked what the LOP is before driving anywhere to look at it as a potential purchase, whether 100 miles or across the hamlet. Just common sense to ask if the barrels or the wood has been cut.

I had to go right past his house to go to Home Depot to get some light fixtures. So, I would have wanted to see the gun anyway. Not a big deal for me. Plus he had a couple other guns for sale, too. I'm always driving around looking for guns. But after I saw it, I thought I would hold off on it. He probably won't sell it for a while- if I decide I still want it. Plus I have a feeling he might lower the price and I know one guy at the club with a kid who shoots who might want it. But he's out of town right now. Maybe I could put another pad on it and sell it. I'll just have to decide. A lot of options involved. But, right now I have two guns to get leather pads on, and I just got done doing a Silver Pigeon ll, so I'll hold off on it for now. Thanks gentlemen for your opinions.

I have a model 100 12ga, 28" that I opened up to Skeet/IC, added double triggers and disconnected the auto safety. Very robust gun and has never let me down. $1500.00 for a long barreled 20ga in excellent condition seems like a Fair price to me. If I were buying a 20ga today though, I would look for a double trigger Dickinson Estate 1st. Cleaner lines IMO.

Amen!
JR

I bought a model 100 for my wife and immediately cut the stock and added a pad. That was that gun's most important purpose, and it worked very well for that. But as soon as I got it, I also put a search on ebay for a replacement stock. In short order, I found a c n c unfinished carved stock that fit it perfectly with only a few minutes of adjusting the inletting. I added a pad to that, and now I have stocks that fit both me and her.
I don't think I paid more than seventy five dollars for that butt stock.