Need help from a Deer Slayer owner!

[mike312]

We were at an auction last Saturday, and the WIFE (not me) got all excited over a nice clean Ithaca Deerslayer, an older one ('74, turns out) in nice shape. So nice, I suspected a quality reblue sometime in it's life, but hey, who cares, wifey like, good enough. She said it was at $275, and she wanted me to bid up to $300, but no more. I figured "Ha!" okay, this will be over quick. It was, I won it at $285, holy crap! Okay, paperwork, and haul it home, good, full disassembly, scrubbing and reassemble. Very dirty inside, which made me think, most of them must be pretty yucky inside, any shotgun that you have to pull the stock off of to pull the bolt and trigger group is not going to see a lot of deep cleaning, more likely a shot of WD and a boresnake once in a while.
So it's all back together, but I notice the rear sight had been ground down to clear the 6X Unertl Condor that was installed on it (I didn't mention the scope, did I? It's a pretty cool older scope, old enough that the whole crosshair moves and can end up visually off to one side or down or up in the scope's FOV. Has a crosshair and dot reticle, and will not go back on this gun, maybe one of her older .22s or something.

Which returns me to my problem; I need a replacement rear sight for the Deerslayer, one that is the correct height for the factory Raybar front. I know Williams makes a Firesight set for this, I want to stay closer to original. I was wondering if one of you has an older Deerslayer with a factory mounted rear sight could measure the height from the spot where the rear sight rests on the barrel (actually the short flat rail section that has the sight's dovetail on the barrel) to the top of the rear sight blade with the sight fully down, and again with the sight fully raised by the sight's elevator bar and tell me the numbers you get, so I can hunt down one of the correct height.

[W.R.Buchanan]

You know,,, if you called Ithaca they'd probably send you one.
Randy

[Loh_Ji]

Here is a good site for parts schematics and parts in general:

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/ithacaskb/shotguns-ithaca/37-2/parts-list-ith-37

Congrats!

[-hanko]

We were at an auction last Saturday, and the WIFE (not me) got all excited over a nice clean Ithaca Deerslayer, an older one ('74, turns out) in nice shape. So nice, I suspected a quality reblue sometime in it's life, but hey, who cares, wifey like, good enough. She said it was at $275, and she wanted me to bid up to $300, but no more. I figured "Ha!" okay, this will be over quick. It was, I won it at $285, holy crap! Okay, paperwork, and haul it home, good, full disassembly, scrubbing and reassemble. Very dirty inside, which made me think, most of them must be pretty yucky inside, any shotgun that you have to pull the stock off of to pull the bolt and trigger group is not going to see a lot of deep cleaning, more likely a shot of WD and a boresnake once in a while.
So it's all back together, but I notice the rear sight had been ground down to clear the 6X Unertl Condor that was installed on it (I didn't mention the scope, did I? It's a pretty cool older scope, old enough that the whole crosshair moves and can end up visually off to one side or down or up in the scope's FOV. Has a crosshair and dot reticle, and will not go back on this gun, maybe one of her older .22s or something.

Which returns me to my problem; I need a replacement rear sight for the Deerslayer, one that is the correct height for the factory Raybar front. I know Williams makes a Firesight set for this, I want to stay closer to original. I was wondering if one of you has an older Deerslayer with a factory mounted rear sight could measure the height from the spot where the rear sight rests on the barrel (actually the short flat rail section that has the sight's dovetail on the barrel) to the top of the rear sight blade with the sight fully down, and again with the sight fully raised by the sight's elevator bar and tell me the numbers you get, so I can hunt down one of the correct height.

I'd suggest technical support at Brownells.

I agree with calling Ithaca they're great folks.

OT, I called with a question of an Ithaca with only a a serial number on the gun and barrel. No other markings of any kind. The CS lady put me on hold, came back around 5 minutes later and stated the gun was one of 2-3 dozen built in NY and shipped to the Baltimore Navy Yard in the early 1940's. No originating source was noted in her records. I've got provenance from Ithaca stating what she advised.