Fox Collectors

OH Osthaus wrote:I see you had some response on the Longrifle forum

https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/in ... #msg619955

Yes, I think we might have a winner. Might be a Curly Gostumski milled barrel. I'll know more when I get it in hand, hopefully this week.

Not our Fox. Ansley H. Fox was born in 1875, when cartridge firearms were fast becoming the norm. By the time Ansley founded his first gunmaking company, in Baltimore, in 1898. he was making a hammerless, breechloading double barrel shotgun. Thanks. Keep in mind that this is a solid barrel and any ...

I was visiting a friend today who's an accomplished builder of flintlock rifles. While looking at some of the firearms in his collection, I commented about a really nice, little .58/24 gauge fowler/smoothbore. I told him how much I liked the transition from octagon to wedding band to round and he sa...