ITHACA MODEL 49 SADDLEGUN OWNERS MANUAL MANUALS
ITHACA MODEL 49 SADDLEGUN OWNERS MANUAL MANUAL

Thanks to the ready availability of old gun catalog reprints from Cornell Publications and a chapter on the Model 49 in Single Shot Rifles and Actions by Frank de Hass, IвЂ™ve been able to pull together some of the history of this remarkable rifle. ItвЂ™s been one of greatest fun guns IвЂ™ve ever owned. Partner that can meet all your power transmission and distribution needs. I doubt it had ever been fired and the price was right so we left the show together.

Many years later, I was leaving a gun show and just before the exit was a table offering a Model 49 Saddlegun in its original box. I was entranced, not with the chicken hunt, but with his Model 49. He simply grabbed his Ithaca Model 49 Saddlegun and shot one. Hamilton wanted a chicken for dinner, Hammy didnвЂ™t try to run one down. вЂњHammyвЂќ and his family were leading a bucolic, semi-farm life in upstate Vermont and among the livestock on his place was a flock of free-roaming chickens. Having just returned from two years overseas, I was driving around the country running down old friends, one of whom was my former roommate, John Hamilton. I first discovered the delightful, little Model 49 in 1966. While freely admitting his design was derived from the Peabody patent, Martini patented the improved design in his own name.

Well, Friedrich von Martini, a Swiss, took the Peabody action and eliminated PeabodyвЂ™s external hammer lock by incorporating the complete firing mechanism within the breechblock itself. Produced from 1961 until 1978, Ithaca made an amazing 500,000 Model 49вЂ™s. Peabody of Boston, Massachusetts, who patented these details and principles in 1862 as a hammer-fired, drop-block action.

But IthacaвЂ™s Model 49 action looks and functions like a Martini! What do you think of when you think about a Martini? A streamlined, graceful, slab-sided single-shot receiver?ДЄn underlever that pivots a centrally located breechblock up-and-down? A deeply grooved breechblock that guides a fresh cartridge directly into the chamber? A simple mechanical extractor/ejector activated by the descending breechblock? Well, thank you, Mr. While it looked like a lever-action repeater complete with ersatz magazine tube, the Model 49 Saddlegun was actually the last Peabody-inspired single-shot rifle produced in the USA. From 1961 to 1978, approximately 500,000 Model 49 Saddleguns chambered in.22 Long Rifle and.22 Magnum were sold. IthacaвЂ™s Model 49 Saddlegun has quickly won the hearts of the nationвЂ™s young shooters-earned the praise of their safety-minded parents and youth-oriented rifle-training programs,вЂќ the ad copy continued. вЂњPeople claimed it couldnвЂ™t be done, build a.22 in the Ithaca tradition with quality, styling and all around good looks and then price it within range of most every boyвЂ™s pocketbook. вЂњGreatest Little Gun in the Land-The Ithaca Model 49 Saddlegun,вЂќ shouted IthacaвЂ™s 1962 ad campaign. IthacaвЂ™s Peabody-Inspired Model 49 Saddlegun Was A Unique Single-Shot.22. Barrel, hooded front sight, manufactured 1973-78 by Erma Werke, W. From The blue book, 28th edition Model 72 saddle gun.

ITHACA MODEL 49 SADDLEGUN OWNERS MANUAL MANUALS

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