Ithaca 37 "Trench Gun" - Opinions Requested

[Tom Doniphon]

Ithaca was making receivers w/o the game scene as far back as WWII. Most of the WWII trench guns have plain receivers. And they were making them in the early 60s too. I think most, if not all, of the Ithaca shotguns shipped to Vietnam in the early 60s had plain receivers. So a plain receiver is not suspect, IMO.

I'm not sure what this shotgun is. Maybe a Military contract overrun or commercial/law enforcement gun. Maybe a riot gun converted to trench. The stock is definitely strange. The top part of the wrist area does not look like a Stevens to me. It's too arched. The Stevens buttstocks have a straighter wrist to them. But the swivel cut-out does look like a Stevens stock. Maybe someone modified it or it is some sort of replacement stock.

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