They decided to copy the Remington Model 17 and waited for its patents to expire. Following WWI, to satisfy demand generated by the Winchester Model 12 repeating shotgun, the Ithaca Gun Company was searching for a pump-action shotgun design with which to compete. in Ithaca, NY was founded in 1880 and by 1883 was producing side by side 12 gauge doubles. That gun would eventually be replaced in production by the Remington 870 which is still produced to this day. The Model 17 was a 20-gauge of trim proportions, later redesigned and refined into the popular Remington Model 31. The Ithaca Model 37 inspiration was the Remington Model 17, a pump-action, repeating shotgun based on designs by the noted firearms designers John Browning and John Pedersen.
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