Single Barrel Trap [KNICK]

In 1911, the Ithaca Gun Company introduced their first single-barrel shotgun especially designed for trapshooting. This was known around the Ithaca Plant as the Flues Model after it's designer Emil Flues.

In 1922 the Flues model was discontinued when the current model was introduced.

All guns of the earlier Flues model have serial numbers under 400,000.

The 1922 version was designed by Frank Knickerbocker and is called the Knick model.

*One of the most amazing products in the history of commercial shotgun manufacturing appeared in 1922.

On February 28th of that year, Ithaca Gun Company shipped the first of a new model Single-Barrel Trap Gun, serial number 400,005, in No. 5-E grade, to Von Lengerke 8; Antoine, Chicago, Illinois.

This model, known as the “Knick” (or “Nick,” as it was called at the time), remained in production, virtually unchanged, for over 60 years.


*“The Ithaca Gun Company From the Beginning” by Walter Claude Snyder