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I’ve been looking for an Ithaca/SKB XL900 like my dad had. It’s a 12 ga semi auto shotgun. They are not very popular but great guns. My dad was an “Ithaca Man”. Anyway in my travels this week I happened on one in a pawn shop in Alabama. It was in need of some love and had been there a while. After some walk away negotiation I brought it home for a song. I little scrubby scrubby and the penny trick on the barrel rust it looks pretty good. My son and I ran two boxes of shells through it dusting expired sodas. Quite impressive after sitting in the sun and given a shake. We were tossing them up in the air. After that we put about 100 rounds through my Ruger Bisley .480. Great afternoon hanging with my son.
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ncrobb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:15 pm My dad was an “Ithaca Man”.
Good man. Had a good son. Had a good grandson. Here's to many more grand-, grand-, grand-, grandsons after that, and many more, far into the future.
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Whalehead King wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:50 pm
ncrobb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:15 pm My dad was an “Ithaca Man”.
Good man. Had a good son. Had a good grandson. Here's to many more grand-, grand-, grand-, grandsons after that, and many more, far into the future.
Thank you sir. I was able to get my hands on my Dad’s side by side Ithaca double after he passed away. The semi auto got away from me to my brother. I passed on his S&W 686 to my son as a college graduation present. He was excited and emotional to have his pawpaw’s revolver.
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Great story of a great day.
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Any day shooting is good day. I have an electric claybird slinger, so I can go thru a box of birds in nothing flat. Good thing they're only 9 bucks a box. Discounting cost of shells of course. I still love shooting claybird with a side-by-side. Nostalgia and all that. Funny, it seems that except for pipe smoking, all my hobbies have involved turning money into noise.
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I passed on his S&W 686 to my son as a college graduation present.
Nice, what length barrel? I foolishly sold a 686+ I had, with a 6" barrel.
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avid wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 4:28 pm
I passed on his S&W 686 to my son as a college graduation present.
Nice, what length barrel? I foolishly sold a 686+ I had, with a 6" barrel.
Yep 6” barrel. The paper work inside the box shows my dad bought it three days after my son was born. I kinda think he intended for him to have it.
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ncrobb wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:14 pm
avid wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 4:28 pm
I passed on his S&W 686 to my son as a college graduation present.
Nice, what length barrel? I foolishly sold a 686+ I had, with a 6" barrel.
Yep 6” barrel. The paper work inside the box shows my dad bought it three days after my son was born. I kinda think he intended for him to have it.
very neat
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