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Again? So soon? (Ithica .22 rifle and Steven's 87A)
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<blockquote data-quote="Catt57" data-source="post: 3262724" data-attributes="member: 34578"><p>I did find this on the interwebs.</p><p></p><p>Seems it would be the equivalent of about $500 today adjusted for inflation. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]141465[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“The Ithaca Gun Company of Ithica, N.Y., is best remembered for the double barreled shotguns they once manufactured. If your father or grandfather was a waterfowl or upland bird hunter he might have used one. If he also enjoyed the sport of trap shooting he might have started the game with an Ithaca single-barrel trap gun. … Up until about 1958 Ithaca never bothered with a rifle, but in that year they introduced the Model X5 Lightning, a semi-automoatic 22 rimfire … .Then they introduced the Model 49 single shot 22, and after that the Model 72 lever action repeater. But the Ithaca rifle that interested me most was the LSA-55, a centerfire bolt action.” <em>Frank de Haas, from the Gun Digest/Krause Publications book </em>“Bolt Action Rifles 4th Edition,” <em>by Frank de Haas and Wayne van Zwoll</em></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catt57, post: 3262724, member: 34578"] I did find this on the interwebs. Seems it would be the equivalent of about $500 today adjusted for inflation. [ATTACH=full]141465[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5][B]“The Ithaca Gun Company of Ithica, N.Y., is best remembered for the double barreled shotguns they once manufactured. If your father or grandfather was a waterfowl or upland bird hunter he might have used one. If he also enjoyed the sport of trap shooting he might have started the game with an Ithaca single-barrel trap gun. … Up until about 1958 Ithaca never bothered with a rifle, but in that year they introduced the Model X5 Lightning, a semi-automoatic 22 rimfire … .Then they introduced the Model 49 single shot 22, and after that the Model 72 lever action repeater. But the Ithaca rifle that interested me most was the LSA-55, a centerfire bolt action.” [I]Frank de Haas, from the Gun Digest/Krause Publications book [/I]“Bolt Action Rifles 4th Edition,” [I]by Frank de Haas and Wayne van Zwoll[/I][/B] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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