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Unread 06-20-2024, 12:33 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by rolandtg View Post
Is that a chimney or a shot tower?
Surprising it's left standing.
It's the chimney. A whole lotta forging goin' on!

To my knowledge, Ithaca Gun never produced shot. They used a lot, though, in testing...enough to contaminate Fall Creek.

My former wife did office work there in the service dept., which had been moved down by Cayuga inlet from the steel shed it originally occupied on the factory grounds--located at the edge of the cliff above the gorge. Attached to that building was a shooting tube maybe 20' long, used to check success of the repairs, and it went along during the move.
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