Fox Collectors

So, in addition to the missing lower keel, the bottom rib was loose for about 2" behind the muzzles. Probably the fella who tried to put some solder in the open space got the rib loose. A good example of how vintage double-gun work often expands and you get into more than might be first apparen...

I shot sporting with some friends yesterday and the nephew of one was using a 12 ga Fox "Pin Gun" s/n 590xx that had a missing barrel keel. He asked if I could replace it and we made a deal to swap some parts for the work. So last evening I checked the bores and chokes and was surprised to...

Thanks Ron for posting your pics and reports. Great success on the birds! In comparison, one my buds just returned from a week in SD and four of them each saw an average of less than 2 pheasants per day over the week. And that was with three good dogs. George's report: educated birds ..... runners a...

Our PA grouse seasons are now about 1/3 over and so far over 4 days I've flushed ten birds and bagged three - 2 with a Parker and 1 with my Sterlingworth Vixen. Both 20 bores. Also one woodcock with a Fox, and took a nice "fly by" ringneck yesterday on opportunity as we were walking to a c...

Thanks Daryl for your two reports. Sounds like I didn't miss much by not going. Good luck on your upcoming pheasant trip. Good times with your regular crew. Please remind a certain gent to leave his 8 bore at home. Wouldn't want to see him get in trouble. :lol: frank You missed my smiling face 8) :...

Some pages from the 2005 Vintage Cup booklet. The event was one of the high points of the the Vintagers and the Orvis/Sandanona venue! I shot the Championship that year. There were so many shooters and thus two flights each with a shotgun start (assigned starting stations). I was squadded with a you...

I was out again yesterday here in NE PA and bagged a grouse (one of three flushed) with a Parker and a woodcock using a Fox. Weather continues very dry and unseasonably hot; woods hunting is pretty noisy while walking in the dry leaves. Plenty of ticks and every return to the vehicle means a good ha...

Ron has shared with me some cell "movies" of Maggie and Mollie in action on birds, and to say they're a good hunting team would be an understatement. Fancy pedigrees, No. Great trailers and flushers, YES. frank

I was out in the mountains again yesterday; it continued dry and unseasonably warm with a daytime high of 65. Also very windy. I decided to hunt low and bagged a grouse in a big area of bittersweet during mid-morning and using my Fox 20 bore "Vixen". Kind of interesting that the witch haze...

This morning I had a change of plans when my hunting partner had to cancel out, and I scouted a new area while hunting grouse with my 20 bore straight grip Sterlingworth "Vixen" that’s pictured here earlier. It's been really dry for about a month now and the fallen leaves make for noisy wa...

Wild, thanks for your comments. Yes there are many vintage SxS "experts" out there with a whole range of opinions and sorting out the wheat from the chaff can be difficult at times. It sounds like you're in a great waterfowling location there in northern AB. I've hunted for deer quite a bi...

Thanks for sharing your ammo information. I just picked up a box of Kent Bismuth “upland”, 1 1/4 oz., #5 @1350. (snip) If truly on size a #5 Bismuth pellet would have about the same weight and ranging as a #6 lead pellet. Jeff, I'm curious about those shells and wonder if the Bismuth shot is inside...

Thanks guys. I just don't want to over do it for the guns sake and my own. Wild Wings I started hunting as a pre-teen here in PA. For mixed Upland game almost all hunters with typical 12-gauge/Mod & Full choked double-guns with steel barrels would have a low brass 1-1/8 ounce Field load of 6's ...

The classic/heavy 12-gauge 'High Brass" shells used for over a century now are 1-1/4 ounces of lead at 1330 speed. Recoil is stiff of course and the Federal shells with Bismuth shot you cited at 1350 would be a bit more. If a heavier weight Sterly in good shape as inspected I wouldn't hesitate ...

Mollie and Ron were very fortunate and I can imagine his thoughts when seeing her sinking and struggling to extract. Once a long time ago I was boating out to a blind in a swamp along with my buddy Ron; we were a bit late. Just about then the season opener ticked in and guys started shooting all aro...