![]() ![]() SDshooter2 wrote:Ithaca added the Raybar sight to their Model 37s in 1955. I'm not sure what other models got the Raybar. He was already a dead shot with the gun and liked to rib his rabbit hunting friends. He was enormously proud of the new sight and called it his "Raygun" sight. My Dad had a Raybar sight installed on his 1947 M37 around 1956 or 57 and I think Ithaca paid the postage. I think that Ithaca even paid the postage on the deal for a couple of years. You could send your barrel back to Ithaca and have the new Raybar sight installed for just a couple of bucks. After the Raybar came out in '55, Ithaca ran an aggressive campaign to fit them onto older guns. You will occasionally see pre-574,000 S/N guns with Raybar sights but otherwise period-correct features. The Raybar sight was added, but the more expensive pistol grip checkering, fluted comb, grip cap, and magazine cap lever-pin were dropped. The move was part of cost cutting measures after the war. The earliest guns with it have serial numbers starting around 574,000. Ithaca added the Raybar sight to their Model 37s in 1955.
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