Ithaca Question
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s&wchad
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I don’t think so.
I’m pretty sure your rifle (Tikka) has an integral 16mm rail (5/8”). Warne makes Maxima European rings that should work. I’ve used Maxima’s on a few guns and they’re rock solid.
WARNE MFG. COMPANY EUROPEAN DOVETAIL MAXIMA RINGS | Brownells
I’m pretty sure your rifle (Tikka) has an integral 16mm rail (5/8”). Warne makes Maxima European rings that should work. I’ve used Maxima’s on a few guns and they’re rock solid.
WARNE MFG. COMPANY EUROPEAN DOVETAIL MAXIMA RINGS | Brownells
Bullet Bob
US Veteran
Google and I both say it's a Tikka 
Fishinfool
Member
Was not the LSA-55 a Sako action?
Edit: Sako bought out Tikka in 1983, so was originally designed by Tikka
Larry
Edit: Sako bought out Tikka in 1983, so was originally designed by Tikka
Larry
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s&wchad
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Yes, they were made by Tikka in Finland and branded for Ithaca, who was the US Importer. Ithaca also brought in SKB shotguns from Japan.
Ithaca built their reputation on side by side’s, single barrel trap guns and the model 37 pump shotgun, but they were struggling to survive because of the competition and increasing labor costs. They partnered with foreign manufacturers trying to save the business. Tikka was bought out by Sako in the mid-70’s.
The more recent Tikka rifles are drilled and tapped or have a picatinny rail, but I believe yours only has the receiver grooves. Measure the distance between the grooves with a caliper. If it .625 inches (5/8ths of an inch), the European Warne Maxima’s should be just the ticket!
THE PILGRIM
Member
Know a NY Dude who went to Ithaca College.
If I see him wearing his IC Sweatshirt,
I always say, What a Great College!
The only College that ever made Shotguns!
If I see him wearing his IC Sweatshirt,
I always say, What a Great College!
The only College that ever made Shotguns!
Ithaca became famous for building guns based on expired Remington patents as well as on patents purchased from other designers. Ithaca pretty much drove Remington out of the doubles market with their excellent double barrel shot guns in the first quarter of the 20th century. Eventually Remington ended up buying Ithaca designs, such as the Mag-10 that Remington produced as the SP-10.
Ithaca’s problems started when it was acquired by what became General Recreation which made it a publicly traded company in the early 1970s. Once it was driven by stock value instead of quality, it went into decline and with a focus on minimizing cost and maximizing profit importing rather than selling guns became a focus.
Other manufacturers have done the same thing with a varying degrees of success.
After it’s sale to an investment firm in the early 1990’s Remington started importing foreign made arms under its own label. They started with the Zastaza CZ 99 Precision labeled and imported it as the Remington Model 5. It was a well made .22 LR rifle and didn’t meet with many objections.
After Interarms closed in 1998, Remington imported the Zastava Model 70 Mauser and marketed it as the Remington 798. They also imported the Zastaza Model 85 Mini Mauser as the Remington 799. However, after a few years they caved to pressure to stop importing them as they were a) not Remington made products, b) were competing with their own 700 series rifles and c) were not consistent with Remington’s push feed bolt action market as the Mauser 98 based 799 had a lot more in common with the revised Model 70 Classic that returned to a Mauser style controlled feed claw extractor. That ultimately didn’t work so well for them as they stopped making a profit around the same time they discontinued the imports, both increasing costs, and losing sales to customers who wanted controlled feed rifles. They were on the verge of bankruptcy in 2007, were bought by Cerebus, an investment firm that almost immediately sold them to Marlin, and we all now how that worked out.
As for the current Remington, I am not optimistic anytime a conglomerate buys a firearms manufacturing company. By definition the parent company is in business to generate returns for it’s investors - not to produce a quality product.
Ithaca is probably in a better position as it is once again privately owned, although it’s now run as more or less a custom gun maker.
The wider European rail groves are used on Anschutz and CZ rifles also. So there are many affordable ring set for 1" scopes but listed under the 22 section of scope mounting charts.
Ivan
Ivan
