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. Produced from 1961 until 1978, Ithaca made an amazing 500,000 Model 49’s.Īnd Martini? 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. Peabody of Boston, Massachusetts, who patented these details and principles in 1862 as a hammer-fired, drop-block action. What do you think of when you think about a Martini? A streamlined, graceful, slab-sided single-shot receiver? An 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?
Peabody? But Ithaca’s Model 49 action looks and functions like a Martini! 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. Ithaca’s Model 49 Saddle Gun 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.įrom 1961 to 1978, approximately 500,000 Model 49 Saddle Guns chambered in. 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.īut here it is. “People claimed it couldn’t be done, build a. “Greatest Little Gun in the Land-The Ithaca Model 49 Saddlegun,” shouted Ithaca’s 1962 ad campaign. Ithaca’s Peabody-Inspired Model 49 Saddlegun
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