OP,
I don't really know for sure but depending on where exactly you are located on the Eastern Shore, we are probably less than 75 miles apart so we could meet and see if my Model 37 Deluxe (1962) 2-3/4" 12 ga. Full choke long tube (30") would swap with a Deerslayer.
I still have my original hang-tag that is the take-down instructions, and if you still have yours it may give a clue.
When I was a teenager in the woods of southwestern new York deer season meant only shotguns and I had my Model 37 and my buddy had a Deerslayer, same year, but we never tried swapping barrels so I still don't know after all these years. Around our small farm town in those days, almost everyone had an Ithaca and I do recall old timers discussing the benefit of having the 2 different barrels for the same frame gun, thus doing duplicate duty for less money than 2 separate guns.
Like everything else that John Moses Browning invented it sure seems likely that his invention of the Ithaca Model 37 (first produced by Ithaca in 1937) would have a basic assembly that would allow this type of swap.
The original Model 37 was discontinued by the original Ithaca Gun Company in 1967 so I also don't know about a 1976 produced gun as to whether there were any design or manufacturing changes that would affect swapping.
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Charlie B
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