Fox Collectors

I knew Mr. Gibbons for many years. I never bought a gun from him but I did sell him a few. We also shared an old gunsmith. It would amuse me to see a nice high grade Fox described in "Gun List" with the famous "no screw ever turned" epithet having seen the exact same gun spread a...

I highly recommend Geoffrey Gournet in Easton, PA. He has done many projects for me both simple and complex.

I suspect the barrels were added in Liege by the firm, ARMAF. I have 2 guns so barreled. One is a set of 3 1/2" 10 gauge magnums fitted to a #3 frame Parker Grade 2 top lever hammer gun. The other is a rather hefty early A&D Lindner Chas. Daly with a set of 3" 12 gauge magnums and a se...

My late father bought me my first A.H. Fox gun in early November of 1964 at a hardware store on Main St. in Kutztown, PA. It was a 26" 16 gauge Philadelphia Sterlingworth in beautiful shape. He traded my first shotgun, a 16g Savage 220B single shot for it and $30. We had both shot pheasants tha...

And both rusty...

Just in from Beaver Dam. Here is a oddball a "blonde" phase gadwall taken yesterday...

I had a Galazan XE 20g with one and I have a Purdey with one. I like them.

When last I saw it, it was stocked in some local juglans nigra from Berks County, PA....as one of my good Southern friends said when asked what he had done the night before having emptied a bourbon bottle, he replied, "I don't know but it was somewhere between real poor taste and a felony."

We spent a few days last week at Beaver Dam in Tunica County, MS hunting the "souf end trails" with the Boyd family. First timers, Parkerphile and case restorer par excellence, Kevin McCormack and my childhood buddy, Chris Nagel were cajoled into making the long ride with me. Despite tempe...

How could an HE named "Hogwell" be in poor taste?

It is based at Addieville East in NW Rhode Island.

I had the gun built for the centennial of the NHC.I was a member at the time. Maitre Gournet did the engraving.

The Philadelphia Gun Club founded in 1877 and at its current location since 1894 had no connection with Gough or Ansley Fox (nor any of the A.H. Fox Gun Co board members I am familiar with). None are recorded as having visited the Club. Nash Buckingham (and Bo Whoop) did in 1927 with Hal Sheldon as ...

I finally got around to reading Mike Gaddis' article. It was well reseached. While clearly he doesn't know much about Fox guns, the Fox factory operations or Burt Becker and some of his speculations are easily dismissed, I have always rested firmly in the speculative camp regarding the resurrection ...

Yes, Mike has one. I have picked up a number of big doubles for the Boyd clan.