Ithaca Made Rifles? Why Yes, Yes it Did!

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Certainly better and best known for its shotguns, including the famous Model 37, Ithaca once dabbled in rifle building, as well.

This was Ithaca’s first endeavor into rifle making. Eventually the firm produced a single-shot, a lever-action, and a fine bolt-action.

“The Ithaca Gun Company of Ithica, N.Y., is best remembered for the double barreled shotguns they once manufactured. If your father or grandfather was a waterfowl or upland bird hunter he might have used one. If he also enjoyed the sport of trap shooting he might have started the game with an Ithaca single-barrel trap gun. … Up until about 1958 Ithaca never bothered with a rifle, but in that year they introduced the Model X5 Lightning, a semi-automoatic 22 rimfire … .Then they introduced the Model 49 single shot 22, and after that the Model 72 lever action repeater. But the Ithaca rifle that interested me most was the LSA-55, a centerfire bolt action.” Frank de Haas, from the Gun Digest/Krause Publications book “Bolt Action Rifles 4^th Edition,” by Frank de Haas and Wayne van Zwoll

Like this quote? Then we think you’ll love Gun Digest Shooter’s Guide to Rifles by Wayne van Zwoll.

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