Oh the things our dreams are made of. Imagine just about everybody would love to have some kind of Trench Gun, myself included.

Like the Ithaca Trench Gun, but how ’bout they extend the magazine a shell, or so? Radio shack pro 62 owners manual free. I know the bayonet grip is in the way, and would need to extend mag/barrel attachment point, but when your in the trenches it would be nice to have all the firepower available to the design. About the same time we changed over from serial numbers to using. The Ithaca Gun Company has innovated and perfected the art and effectiveness of its numerous designs. Since its inception, Ithaca has been dedicated to modifying and improving its definitive characteristics for each new generation.

I spend way too much time pouring over every bit of information I can get my hands on regarding martial shotguns and they are in my dreams. I'd love to have any number of said shotguns, but am poor and can't seem to see myself spending thousands of dollars on something that should be in a museum. I do find myself gathering guns and parts to assemble into a fake or reproduction/clone Trench Gun. At the moment I'm working on a 1970 vintage M37. There is also hope on the horizon for some Winchester pumps too.

As for the WWII Ithaca M37 Trench Gun, depending on who you read (Canfield, Poyer, etc.) there were between 1420 and 1422 Ithaca Trench Guns built during the war. As the M37 was not part of what was kept by the military after the war their numbers dwindled accordingly. I do not know if anyone knows the exact number of WWII M37 Trench Guns left in existence, but the number must be small. According to Canfield the WWII M37 Trench Gun is one of the most sought after martial shotguns only challenged by the Remington Model 10 Trench Gun. Gotta love the Winnies too. Winchester built truckloads of '97s for the first World War as well as a couple M12 that the military never bit the hook on for in 1918.

There were Winchester trench Guns built during the inter-war years and again thousands of M97s and M12s built for WWII. I also read (Canfield) there were a few M12s built up into the early 1960s (around about SN 1961xxx IIRC). The Winchester Trenchies are much more common and well known; I'd like to have a couple too. As things are, my little project just took a drastic turn. I emptied my little piggy bank on a real 1969 vintage M37 Trench Gun. Seller reports he does not think its ever left our shores for action abroad, rather it was used in a prison back east somewhere.