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Not their doubles (I have a 1912 12 Flues Grade 1 with DT and ejectors, and it is a great shooter indeed)-- but a friend has a Ithaca 20 pumpgun combo (24' slug barrel and 28" VR barrel with screw-in chokes) Model 87 (will take 2 & 3/4" and 3" 20 gauge shells)--made by Ithaca under the Ithaca Acquistion Group--?? Are the parts the same as with the previous Ithaca M37 made by Ithaca in Ithaca, New York- and for that matter, the same as the 're-born Ithaca M37 series being made in Sandusky, OH??
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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It depends...
Barrel fit changed along the way and some internals on te 87 will not work elsewhere and vise versa.
So it depends on the age of the 37 and what parts you need.
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M37s made with serial #855,000 (1963) and higher have interchangeable barrels. Your friends "87" was made in Kings Ferry. That Ithaca regime made some good ones and bad ones, but any issues can easily be resolved. The gun is mechanically simple and has barely more parts than an anvil. The Upper Sandusky folks are tops and can resolve any parts issue your buddy may have. The earlier guns were capable of "slam firing", but the Kings Ferry and Upper Sandusky won't.
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Thanks to you both. He has asked me to sell it for him, I have the factory handbook that came with it- I think he shot it once with the 24" slug site barrel, the other barrel has a screw-in choke (only two slots) and ventilated rib with Ray-Bar sight and the threads have no mars- so I think he never set that barrel on the gun. I live in a shotgun only zone in lower MI, and come mid to late Oct I'll run an ad for it in the local GR paper-- (Can't sell pumpguns here on a doublegun website). I went to the 2008 Dan Schiendler "Gun Digest' redbook, he does show the M37-- but not the combo they offered- both in Featherlight with 2 & 3/4" chambering, and the Mag series as this one is, with 3" chambering- I want to get him a fair market price for this "combo" and the code printed tag on the handbook specifies this is a combo "package"-- Gun is 99% as new- recoil pad and "ringed" corncob style forearm--
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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