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My guess is top brass quail shooting aka aerial gunnery.

Thanks. 1/24/36; I'll try to remember that.

Researcher,
While you're talking about 20 ga. serial numbers, my A-grade 20 ga. is 203750. According to the doublegunshop manuf. date source, it was the last graded Fox made in 1936. Is that correct?

Wow, I didn't know CA had banned lead altogether. Is that the only State to do so? It must be. That legislature of yours just can't seem to find enough things to be activist about. Of course they won't be able to find enough money to enforce most of their laws but apparently they rely primarily on t...

Yes and it's very hard to say for sure, without seeing them, what the possibilities are. It depends on where the bulging is exactly and how bad it is. Everybody has to judge for themselves what they're comfortable with. I'd be OK with leaving slight bulges (in the right places). My sense is that if ...

I miss the local pheasant hunting too (in Maryland) ...gone since the early 80s. Around here it's been suburb expansion and (I'm convinced) feral cats that cleaned out the broods of our ground nesting birds, first the quail and then the pheasants. The no-till and agribusiness farming practices I'm n...

It sounds like you have a good guy working on them now and it's hard for someone (expert as they may be) to judge the condition of your barrels without actually seeing them. 'Bulges' sounds bad but I would listen to his recommendations. I'm not an expert or a gunsmith but I've seen some remarkable t...

Thanks Stan, I am just a forum member so far but thinking of becoming a real member. I'd like to see the original spec card to confirm the bore/choke dimensions. I don't have a bore gauge but I do believe that the open barrel has a larger bore altogether than the choked barrel. It is visibly/measura...

New Forum Member here. My Fox is a 20 ga. Utica A-grade from the very end of 1936. It's straight stocked with double triggers and extractors. The frame is stamped only with the serial number and "20 GA". The barrel flats have a single "A" under the left chamber, oval SP proof and...