The Auto and Burgler Ithaca double

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:43 pm
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No, it isn't mine. I remember talk of these and have seen other pictures, but being a class 3 weapon now they're hard to find and afford.

Can you imagine shooting both barrels at once? What a street sweeper!
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:50 pm
i was fingering one a few weeks ago at a local gun show.
7k and classIII paperwork and it could be yours.

but you are right they would be a handfull
the way the grip sits in the hand is pretty akward
in fact i think it'd be pretty hard to touch off both at the same time

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:39 pm
What gets me is, they apparently issued a holster with this thing!
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:28 am
I have never shot one, but I have heard from few old timers it was like trying to control a pissed off python.

As I recall, in the film "el Dorado" The James Caan Character carried something like this. I also remember that when he shot it, the recoil almost put the gun in the middle of his fore head.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:13 pm
ravengunsmith wrote:I have never shot one, but I have heard from few old timers it was like trying to control a pissed off python.

As I recall, in the film "el Dorado" The James Caan Character carried something like this. I also remember that when he shot it, the recoil almost put the gun in the middle of his fore head.


Somewhere in a gun magazine I saw a picture of Doc Holliday's 10 ga. street sweeper, a cut down double about the same size as the Auto Bugler. Doc had a ring soldered to the rib and a leather shoulder sling arraingement attached to wear under his coat. The grip on Doc's 10 ga. looked a lot more comfortable to shoot, like it would roll up in the hand like a Colt SAA when fired rather than comming straight back.

Either gun looks like they kill at both ends.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:52 pm
ithaca did make a series of guns in the 80s with a more standard pistol grips

they were the bear stoppers and stake out guns
the bear stoppers were a legal 18.5"
however the stakeouts were 13.25" and came in either 12g or 20g in any finish requested.
and availible to only classIII&VI permit holders
the even cut out a special "bonnie&clyde" set. a chrome 12g stakeout and a 20g blued stakeout in a fancy case.
i guess the most famous example is;an ithaca 37 stakeout was the gun used by the tubbs character in the show "Miami Vice"

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:15 pm
twistedoak wrote:ithaca did make a series of guns in the 80s with a more standard pistol grips

they were the bear stoppers and stake out guns
the bear stoppers were a legal 18.5"
however the stakeouts were 13.25" and came in either 12g or 20g in any finish requested.
and availible to only classIII&VI permit holders
the even cut out a special "bonnie&clyde" set. a chrome 12g stakeout and a 20g blued stakeout in a fancy case.
i guess the most famous example is;an ithaca 37 stakeout was the gun used by the tubbs character in the show "Miami Vice"


On the old cop shows, ADAM-12 and Barney Miller, they used M 37's also.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:25 am
krag96 wrote:
twistedoak wrote:ithaca did make a series of guns in the 80s with a more standard pistol grips

they were the bear stoppers and stake out guns
the bear stoppers were a legal 18.5"
however the stakeouts were 13.25" and came in either 12g or 20g in any finish requested.
and availible to only classIII&VI permit holders
the even cut out a special "bonnie&clyde" set. a chrome 12g stakeout and a 20g blued stakeout in a fancy case.
i guess the most famous example is;an ithaca 37 stakeout was the gun used by the tubbs character in the show "Miami Vice"


On the old cop shows, ADAM-12 and Barney Miller, they used M 37's also.



Check out Beverly Hill Cop and the Eiger Sanction. 37's in both, too.
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