Rare and unusual little rifle made to look like a lever action repeater with false magazine tube. Gold shield is inlaid in stock for personalized engraving (If desired, initials will be engraved at no extra charge).*PRESENTATION GRADE ITHACA MODEL 49 SINGLE SHOT RIFLE. Six coats of finish alternated with hand rubbing give an unmatched appearance. Beautifully figured, ‘full fancy’ American walnut is comparable to that found on the famous $2,000 Ithaca Single-Barrel Trap Gun. Ithaca’s catalog waxed poetically, “Presentation Models: Perfect choice for a trophy prize or gift. The Presentation grade was pretty spectacular as was the $100 price tag it carried. The Standard rifles were priced at $21.95 in.22 LR and $24.95 in.22 WMR while the Deluxe models were pegged at $29.95 and $32.95 respectively. The Deluxe-grade rifles, according to the Ithaca catalog, were, “Mechanically identical with the Standard Model but with figured walnut, extra coats of finish, gold-plated hammer and trigger, swivels and handsome leather sling.” Prices were creeping up as well. During the second year of production, five different models of the M-49 were available-two Standard grades, one in.22 LR and one in.22 Magnum, two Deluxe grades and a Presentation grade in those same calibers. Introduced in 1961, the standard Saddlegun in.22 Short, Long and Long Rifle carried the hefty price tag of $19.95. 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, I’ve been able to pull together some of the history of this remarkable rifle. It’s been one of greatest fun guns I’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 didn’t try to run one down. “Hammy” 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 Peabody’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 49’s. Peabody of Boston, Massachusetts, who patented these details and principles in 1862 as a hammer-fired, drop-block action. But Ithaca’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?Īn 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. Ithaca’s Model 49 Saddlegun has quickly won the hearts of the nation’s young shooters-earned the praise of their safety-minded parents and youth-oriented rifle-training programs,” the ad copy continued. “People claimed it couldn’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 boy’s pocketbook. “Greatest Little Gun in the Land-The Ithaca Model 49 Saddlegun,” shouted Ithaca’s 1962 ad campaign. Ithaca’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.
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