Fox Collectors

None whatsoever to Ansley Fox if that's what you mean. See the chapter on this gun in Muderlak's new book "Shooting Flying". A.H. was a little boy when these guns were (briefly) built.

You are right, you may be wrong. As the seller states the stock was replaced. It is not factory and just looks proud of the action to me. Checkering, shaping, the cheeks, the nose of the comb, etc. nothing looks Fox on it but it actually may look better in personal and be functionally sound...

Mike can take 4 in the Beaver Dam blinds. He has 2 fixed blinds but only takes one party per day. He takes a boat to the blinds and that as well as safety is the limiting factor. Shooting is mornings only just as in Nash's day. He also has a farm a few miles away that offers pond shooting if the bir...

Bill- Who knows what will arise from a pawnshop in the hometown of Bobby Short and Dick Van Dyke... I was high bidder for quite a while but was outbid (voluntarily) at the end while Russell and I sat by the computer and agreed this gun was a crap shoot and we both had TOO MANY PROJECTS... With 30&qu...

They sure look like Savage cyanide case colors. (they remind me of my very first shotgun, a Savage 16g 220b ) Dave Noreen would have an informed opinion but towards the end in Utica and Chicopee Falls I suspect anything was possible....

More...all things being equal an oringinal gun is always worth more than an altered one. Many small gauge Foxes with light barrels have been ruined by having their chambers lengthened. If you can afford any decent Fox and you prefer it to modern repeaters you should be able to afford proper ammo for...

Will, you beat me to it. I had "Mr Buck" out last night looking at p.99. It does look like a M11 or one of its cousins. In a number of NB's stories, Ho'ace is mentioned to have a gun with him often on a goose hunt to the Okeh Bar usually a hand me down hammergun from one of the BDDC member...

Just off hand, you must have missed 30051..."see Becker" and 30050 "ship to Nash Buckingham". Both are DE Specials with Whitworth barrels...why would one expect to see frequent references to NB?

In 1928 Nash Buckingham and Hal Sheldon visited the Campfire Club in Westchester Cty, NY and shot skeet for the first time. Nash shot 98/100 with the first Bo Whoop. Not many guns shot tighter than Bo Whoop...

Untrue. Becker was assigned to work with Askins and Sweeley to develop the special boring for the prototype HEs. However, regarding production HEs, Tom Kidd quotes a letter from Becker to Clarence Godshalk, stating he only did some high end HEs and the boring and test dept. did the rest. (see DGJ, 1...

Find someone with a proper bore gauge. The drop in choke gauge is not an accurate way to measure chokes especially on small bore antique doubles. So before you get more upset, get the right tool for the job. My first Fox (45 years ago) was a 16g Sterlingworth 26" "Brush" model. Good L...

Ho'ace Miller's burial site is unknown. My friend,Mike Boyd from Tunica has been searching for it off and on for years. We "suspicions" that he is buried somewhere in NE Arkansas where he came from and where he moved after Nash Buckingham left the BDDC. Finding the burial site of poor Afri...

Nash Buckingham is buried in the family plot in Memphis. I don't know who you mean by Barlow and Miller.

Paul-Russ Bickel and I will likely be up on Sat. morning for the day. He will bring his ex-Henry Bartholmew 32", straight grip, regular frame HE and I will bring my 32" "Shootinest Gent'man" XE/HE Special. Maybe I can get Russ to pry out my old Becker from the safe...not an HE bu...

I stopped by G&H this morning to buy some of the Bismuth they have on close out. I took a look at the HE they have on their website. #32,517 (?) beavertail, sst and Hawkins pad. Very strong case colors. The btfe looks to me factory but perhaps fitted at Utica on this late Phila. gun... $8000.