Ithaca 37 20 Gauge Featherlight

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Copper BB
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:23 pm
Does anyone know which Model 37 stocks, if any, would fit on an Ultra Featherlight in 20 gauge? I assume the 12 and 16 do not, but wonder about the standard 20 G or Featherlight 20 G, or maybe some other models.

.22LR
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:27 pm
The Model 37's have frame sizes unique to each gauge. That's why the stocks will not interchange.

The ultralight has a frame and trigger plate made from aircraft alloy that is the only difference.

So any stock made for a 20 gauge frame should fit.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:24 pm
With one slight deviation. The trigger guard is slightly different after about 1963/64 than the earlier guns. In order to fit an early stock to a later model receiver, a very small amount of wood needs removed from the rectangular cutout on the bottom. The triggerguard will bottom out and not let the stock tighten up.

I have fit early stocks to the later guns and had to take out 1/16 or less material from that area only. The remainder of the inletting that contacts the receiver itself is just fine.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:51 am
Thank you both for the information. I am in the process of trying to repair a large, but clean, crack across the wrist on the original stock. If the repair doesn't hold, I will try to find a M37 20 G stock.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:24 am
I have fixed split stocks, as have many others with excellent results

read this

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtop ... 9&t=385245

dc

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:20 pm
Do you have just a crack or is the break clean and you have two pieces?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 2:19 pm
It was a crack that opened about an inch at the receiver end on a hinge. It squeezes back together pretty clean, but I don't know if there's enough wood along the sides of the receiver cutout to hold with epoxy glue.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:41 pm
I have used a lot of rubber bands and a cheap wood clamp from Harbor Freight to hold the ends together while the glue is drying.

LOTS of Ithaca stocks split. LOTS.

I showed you that stock I repaired so you could see the degree of split it had. A little more and the top would have come off.

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