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by Sporrns
Mon Sep 16, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: $50 flea market early Fox A Grade shotgun
Replies: 6
Views: 624

Re: $50 flea market early Fox A Grade shotgun

Go to our home page and look under Grades for information; go to Blue Book of Gun Values for approximate values per age and gondition. Also check out Guns International. Kevin

PS - Did you ever get the screw out??
by Sporrns
Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: Fox Paper, catalogs and advertising
Topic: Ridiculously heavy loads
Replies: 18
Views: 611

Re: Ridiculously heavy loads

When we first started serious Canada goose hunting it was out of field pits primarily and very rarely out of a water blind. This would have been c. 1967. We bought a couple of boxes of these exact loads, certain they would be the ultimate for pass shooting the big honkers. They worked, but were brut...
by Sporrns
Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: Hunting Season(s) Approaching - What gun(s) will go with you for opening day?
Replies: 28
Views: 1381

Re: Hunting Season(s) Approaching - What gun(s) will go with you for opening day?

Took the Amish Gun (32" 20 ga. A Grade SG SFE) out for the dove opener but wound up never firing a shot. The only dove that came near me was way too close to shoot (c. 10 ft.). Not many birds moving; high gun for a party of c. 20 hunters was 5 birds. It was just great to be out again on a nice ...
by Sporrns
Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: 2024 Vintage Cup
Replies: 13
Views: 687

Re: 2024 Vintage Cup

What Frank said - I attended Sandanona for the years the VC was held there as a vendor (PGCA booth) when I was into collecting and shooting Parkers. Loved the area, the location, the people and the events. You really felt you were a part of something worthwhile. The ancillary attractions made for gr...
by Sporrns
Wed Aug 28, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: Fox DE Special sold at Rock Island
Replies: 9
Views: 341

Re: Fox DE Special sold at Rock Island

Yes; unique and well done engraving style and execution. What did it sell for? Kevin
by Sporrns
Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: Other Vintage Guns
Topic: "This is Sxxt"
Replies: 10
Views: 744

Re: "This is Sxxt"

Ten or 12 years ago, a friend of mine's electrician told him about a an "old Remington double that is completely covered with engraving" that he found in a pawnshop the electrician haunted on a weekly basis. My friend asked me to accompany him to inspect the gun since he was just getting i...
by Sporrns
Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:46 pm
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: AH Fox Duck Call??
Replies: 18
Views: 1213

Re: AH Fox Duck Call??

I wonder if it is one of the Perry Hooker Limited Edition Signature Series Nash sold in his Buckingham, Ensley & Carrigan store in Memphis? Yowsah!! Kevin
by Sporrns
Mon Jun 24, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Pictures of your Fox
Topic: Fox Double Barrel 16 Gauge
Replies: 10
Views: 903

Re: Fox Double Barrel 16 Gauge

WOW; great gun! To my way of thinking there was no finer design than the gun built on these specs for grouse and woodcock hunting. Mine is a standard skeet and upland game gun (SKUGG), same gauge but with straight grip stock. Light, fast handling with wide-open chokes, I rate it as the best close-qu...
by Sporrns
Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
Topic: Perazzi case crumbled interiors
Replies: 2
Views: 427

Re: Perazzi case crumbled interiors

The problem with these and other more modern cases (e.g., molded plastic or fibreglas types) invariably used the more modern synthetic glues to adhere the linings to the interior of the case as opposed to the very early hide glues (as seen in the British oak & leather and leather over wood cases...
by Sporrns
Tue May 28, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: AHFCA Events
Topic: He won't post it here
Replies: 11
Views: 795

Re: He won't post it here

Wat to go Frank!! Z bar Z over in Montana holds such a shoot but it is "full use of the gun" in that you can shoot the three birds and then the larger chips. I did watch a shooter score six at a station using a five-shot Browning autoloader and throwing in a sixth shell in the speedload s...
by Sporrns
Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:54 pm
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: $50 flea market early Fox A Grade shotgun
Replies: 6
Views: 624

Re: $50 flea market early Fox A Grade shotgun

Hit the screw with a couple of seconds with a Bernz -O- Matic and then douche it with PB Blaster and let it sit overnight. I bet it turns the morning after. Kevin
by Sporrns
Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:15 am
Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
Topic: This made me smile
Replies: 28
Views: 2950

Re: This made me smile

May have been ordered by Nena Hagen's grandfather.....Kevin
by Sporrns
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: AHFCA Events
Topic: Fox Booth at the Southern
Replies: 7
Views: 589

Re: Fox Booth at the Southern

Jeff, I will bring the "Amish Gun' (32" 20 ga. straight grip A grade. Kevin
by Sporrns
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
Topic: Sterlingworth Straight Stock Configuration
Replies: 9
Views: 815

Re: Sterlingworth Straight Stock Configuration

WOW, what great guns! Love the scroll only receiver sides engraving and the date-carved stock cheeks!! Kevin
by Sporrns
Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: Other Vintage Guns
Topic: Little Model 17
Replies: 18
Views: 1606

Re: Little Model 17

Fabulous gun, Fowlgunner! Thanks so much for sharing and posting!! Kevin