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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:18 pm
settrigger wrote:I started black powder hunting with a flintlock because that's what I had access to. Didn't learn enough (obviously) about the workings of the rifle before going hunting. A buck comes along, pretty close, and I think I have to set the "settrigger" before I can use the secondary trigger. When I click the settrigger of course the buck hears it and takes off. I go back to the club later and tell the story. " Hey, you don't have to use the settrigger you know". Ahhhhh, blubber, bluster, ahem, gag, you sure bout that. Outside we go and of course I'm wrong. Well, it took about 30 seconds for the word to get around to 4 counties and a neighboring state.
The name stuck.
Epilog: I loaned the rifle to a buddy of mine (one of the namecallers). He was going to show me how it's done. He sees a nice buck, sets the settrigger, and is pulling down on the buck, touches the trigger and pow. At about a 45 degree angle. Hmmmm, tell me about that settrigger again.



Awesome story! Oh and welcome to Ithaca Owners :D

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:59 am
I can DEFINATELY relate to that!
Lost a deer one time because my fingers were so cold that I couldn't feel the trigger, and touched it off somewhere well over the critter's back. :cry:
Do you shoot Black Powder shotguns?
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:36 am
Chuck Findley wrote:I picked the one for this board, rather than use the one I generally use. I am very left handed.

I was watching television and chose a characters, aka from the show. I will reveal it later unless someone can tell us.


If you're talking about Sam on Burn Notice (good show too) i think it's Chuck Finley...no D.. other than that, there is a musician named Chuck Findley...a trumpet player.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:44 am
Years ago when I first started Playstation 1 video games (way back in 1998 :lol: ) , I needed a name that would be cool. So I started thinking of names similar to Jack the Ripper, and the movie "Freejack" (with Charlie "Winning" Sheen and Mick " I'm so old I should be a mummy" Jagger.) Also I loved the movie " Tank Girl" with Lori (mmmmmm yummy) Petty and the characters in the movie that everyone was so afraid of were called "Rippers"....so I put all them together and
I came up with "ripjack", so I entered it.. ..and low and behold someone thought of it before me! wth!?? :shock: :o (also it's an Inn in Costa Rica :roll: ) now I wanted to keep it and so I decided to add the number 13 to it, because my name is Marc, and the letter M is the 13th letter in the alphabet.

The avatar is from Devil May Cry, the Coyote-A...
I played that game all the time. And I loved that gun in the game.

So there you have it.....
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:43 pm
BP Skeeter, no on the black powder shotgun. As an aside. I loaned the flintlock to another buddy that wanted to start black powder hunting and didn/t have an rifle. I said, " I got one you can borrow " snicker. Well he took it. Sees a nice buck and it misfires. Calls me on the phone and says he's bringing back the rifle and then going to buy an inline. No more flintlock. It now resides in the gun safe. Just gets brougt out to be wiped off and bring back some chuckles. I 've had my Optima for a while now. Really like it
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:11 am
I chose the screen name of "Rob Poston" because my name is Rob Poston. As for the avatar, I wanted it to express the supremely sophisticated intellectual abilities and reflect the highest level of mental stamina and fortitude that I exude on a daily basis. That, and I had MS Paintbrush already open when I signed up.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:27 am
Welcome, Rob!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:09 pm
BPskeeter wrote:Welcome, Rob!



Thank you, good to be here!
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My screen name is a truncated version of my full name that is easy to remember and fits in all computer generated forms, my full name does not always.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:36 am
ripjack13 wrote:
Chuck Findley wrote:I picked the one for this board, rather than use the one I generally use. I am very left handed.

I was watching television and chose a characters, aka from the show. I will reveal it later unless someone can tell us.


If you're talking about Sam on Burn Notice (good show too) i think it's Chuck Finley...no D.. other than that, there is a musician named Chuck Findley...a trumpet player.



Got to check back on this more often. Yes its Sam on Burn Notice. Changed the spelling to protect the innocent :lol:
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:24 am
Ha....you and me both Chuck. I've been quite busy lately. Workin 12 hr days.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:47 am
Knowing a little of the history of Ithaca, and having my father's 1945 Ithaca, it seemed like a good choice for the Ithaca forum.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:40 am
Welcome to the Ithaca Owners Forum Trenchgun !!

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Thanks, looking forward to the exchanges of information
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:50 am
Trenchgun wrote:Knowing a little of the history of Ithaca, and having my father's 1945 Ithaca, it seemed like a good choice for the Ithaca forum.



It's it funny how Those old guns always get passed down. I have my dad's '57 and it still shoots and looks great. I can't tell you how many people buy a new one from me saying "I have my dad's (or grandad's) 37 and I don't want to take it in the woods anymore, so I am looking for a new one that I can take out."

When anyone asks me why they should buy one, I tell them that they don't wear out, they turn into heirlooms.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:53 pm
Your right, the quality keeps them functioning for many generations, and I guess being from New England, Ithaca was the choice. My Dad thought of that gun in a very special way, it was his first new gun, and his first gift from his wife, my soon to be Mom. I bought mine when I completed hunter safety at 15, had to have one like Dad, 16 gauge. A friend here in MO had never seen one, guess we will have to talk it up a bit.
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twin_rotor = two rotor, Wankle design, adopted by Mazda :)

Havn't had the erge to make any of my avatars smaller yet..

My great grandfather also lived in New England. He bought my Model 49 for the same reason I still use it; its light, shoots shorts-LR and will kill any rabbit/squirll you point it at. lol
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:13 am
I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan and Gandalf is of course a main guy in that series. I can't figure out how to get a avatar that meets the pixel requirements so if you know how to do that, please send me a PM.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:31 pm
I'll most likely post an avatar soon, and it may be my favorite "Krag" U.S. M1896 rifle. Which pretty much explains my user name also, I just love those old Krags!
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:00 pm
Howdy fellas. Thanx for posting up your stories. I like reading about the way you guys (& girls) come up with the names. And the pix you have are cool too. Getting the right size is little bit of a challenge. An easy way to find one that fits is to use google images for 90x90 avatars.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:28 pm
I've always liked the '96 Krag myself, although I've never had the opportunity to own one.
Smoothest military bolt action ever - almost as sweet as a Win. Mod.70!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:36 pm
BPskeeter wrote:I've always liked the '96 Krag myself, although I've never had the opportunity to own one.
Smoothest military bolt action ever - almost as sweet as a Win. Mod.70!


They lend themselvs quite well to shooting heavy cast bullets, almost as though the cartridge was made for it. That's all I shoot in my Krags, either Lyman 311299, or RCBS 308180FN. Either are accurate and deadly with IMR4227.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:06 pm
My screen name is Phoneman1. I picked that because I worked at ATT for 31 years. I own a Ithaca 37 and a Minier both are 12 gauge. I came to join due to my recent acquesition of the Minier. I'd like to find a schematic for the Minier and any owner manual or gunsmith information/reprints that are available. For the purpose of cleaning and maintenance of the Minier. Also I'd like to learn as much as I can about this shotgun as I see this is something I wanted to aquire for some time and some day pass down to my son.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:01 am
Kefan1's post has brought to my attention the fact that I haven't introduced m'self "properly", as it were.

My nickname, "Captain Chaos", is the result of the fact that I break stuff - anything, anytime, anywhere. Sometimes, just being close by is enough; the Chaos Field extends several feet from me, apparantly... I've been known as "Chaos" for, I suppose, about twenty years, now.

I started shooting shotgun in late 2009, a few months after Dad died and left me with a few guns to "play with". The collection was eclectic, to say the least. Three, I had destroyed. They were in bad shape, of no historical interest and not worth anything.

As for the rest, I gave away all the guns that I was unlikely to use. A Marlin M55 goose-gun went to a family friend. A Greener GP and and old BP, bolt-action single-shot went to my cousin. A hundred-year-old Greener, SxS hammer-gun went to my uncle. I figured that each time they used a gun of his, they'd remember him...

The guns that I kept were all pump-action: a mid-seventies Remington 870 Wingmaster, an early-fifties Higgins M20 and my favourite, an early-eighties, Parkerised, Ithaca M37 DSPS.

The first time that I was invited out to shoot clays, I broke the M37 - a spot-weld let go at the end of the action bar and, on this particular gun, the *other* spot-weld hadn't "taken" so that was enough to disconnect the forend. Eventually, I got it welded back.

Mid-2010 saw me acquire an FAC (FireArms Certificate) and *now* I was allowed two *unrestricted* shotguns. Most PSGers seemed to be buying Benellis but, before I could rush out and get something like that, an RFD (Registered Firearms Dealer) offered me his M37 which was identical to Dad's but was *not* crimped and restricted to three-shot.

I've been using it ever since. It's not terribly reliable and I've had to replace some parts but it's *great* fun to shoot. (I also shoot an unrestricted Chiappa 1887.)

True to form, last Sunday saw me break another M37 part; this time, it's the little pin that fastens the action bar and bolt carrier together...

I've also managed to acquire an M51. I broke *that* without even taking it out to shoot... :(

As for the avatar, well that's me shooting the ol' M37 DSPS. (The cap's lettering says, "ChAoS".)

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My screen name comes from the job I did in the Navy. I was a chief warrant officer specializing in nuclear propulsion (submarines and aircraft carriers). My avatar comes from the engineering insignia for the only nuclear powered commercial merchant ship ever built in America (so far), the NS Savannah.
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