newer products like Dura Coat would probably make a project gun look like new again, & hold up to use much better than the old paint they used back then. the prices on the m-49's are conductive to projects ( I wouldn't want to change up a nice one ), but often they are pretty chipped up, the "paint" didn't stick very good to the cast alloy frame & lever. I've been wanting a Mach 2 to play around with for farm yard varmints & I like the Martini style singles. I was also looking at the shotguns, as I assume ( as a project gun ) it could hold a bigger cartridge than the m-49's 22 RF. I'd buy this one !!! ( where is the drooling smiley ? ) there are several repeaters ( model 72's ) available on GB right now, including this one ( a deluxe.
I've still got that gun today, but it resides in my sons gun safe now so I don't have a picture of it.ĬB. The M-66 "Supersingle." My first gun was one, in 20 ga. Ithaca also made a drop lever single shot shotgun about the same time. Roy Rogers, Bonanza, The Rifleman.all of them used lever action Winchesters.
#Ithaca model 49 lever action .22 tv#
Every kid in the US if not the world, grew up watching TV Westerns. Why make a single shot that looked like a repeater? You have to remember the time period. The Sears model didn't have the fake magazine tube and of course is marked as "Ted Williams." For a few years they also made a repeater version, but I've never seen one, and have only seen pictures of one or two. They were also made and sold under the "Ted Williams" name for Sears. Ithaca made them from about 1961 to 1972 IIRC. As well as my old eyes can see with open sights anyway. I've never benched it, but just going down the hill out back and shooting at targets of opportunity it seems to shoot just fine. I put it on layaway and picked it up a few weeks later. At first I thought it was a Henry, did a double take and realized what it was. When I got older and had a little money, other, bigger, faster, and "better" things caught my eye.Ī year or so ago, I saw this on the rack at my favorite dealer. They were $49.95 IIRC and it might as well have been a million dollars. Back when I was a young teen-ager, maybe even younger, I remember seening them at the Sears at Eastgate Mall in Highland Springs.
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