Fox Collectors

A trained retriever is better than any 1 7/8oz load. :D Yep that's for fellas who aren't good shots and/or hunt with pipsqueak loads for various reasons I could elaborate on but won't because it will annoy them. I understand and do appreciate good water dog work and especially so when retrieving de...

JME Steggy but it depends on what you're shooting them in as well as number of shots fired. Yes we know the 12g Super-Fox in 3 IN, was set up and chokes regulated for the heaviest HV 1-3/8 ounce loads. When younger while hunting often on James Bay in Ontario, I and some friends shot a lot of 12g/1-7...

What Tom and Stan said. Personally I wouldn't buy a Fox or any other vintage shotgun with a bulged barrel in the higher pressure area anywhere in the back 2/3 of the barrel run. SLIGHT bulges in the forward 1/3 end of a desirable high grade Fox might be OK to try fixing by an expert who will careful...

That's Jon Hosford, not John. Jon is typically set up at some of the larger SxS shoots in the east where he’ll raise barrel dents for passers by and to display his complete line of bore and wall thickness measurement tools and other precision accessories. He's a very talented, well known and respect...

Man, where has the time gone? Here are the Fox BOD's in September 2009 while at the Vintage Cup/Pintail Point MD. L-R: Craig, Frank, Dave, Steve, Paul Also a pic of the trophies for our Ansley H Fox Championship held while there. Like Stan wrote, they’re high quality Crystal/lead glass trophies with...

Here's that Sterling Silver plate with 925 hallmark for comparison to the bling/trinkets awarded nowadays at many SxS events. It's 12" in diameter, has been sitting on its velvet slip over the years and is a little tarnished but sure evokes good memories of the VC when held at Sandanona and wit...

Just sitting here reminiscing about my first time at the VC when it was at Orvis/Sandanona. A very top shelf shooting venue with something like 220 shooters in the Main Event. Three flights with assigned squads and shotgun start. Sporting clays shooters will understand that lingo. I was squadded wit...

Anyone considering going to look/drool/trade a gun or two might want to review the list of vintage gun vendors on the Vintagers web site. Two of the larger and familiar vintage gun dealers won’t be there this year. Me? I’ll see both of them at the Orvis Game Fair in Sandanona/Millbrook NY in Septemb...

Yes the engraving is special, very nice. Burnishing marks and cross hatching on the frame bar are unusual at least to my eye. My other comment is on the angle of butt/pad relative to the comb, and thus the pitch would be excessive. But it is a collector gun and as we know most collectors hardly ever...

IMO that 1908 Fox and similar adverts are just a tiny speck in the dust of history and claims of superiority are no big deal. Then and now, hyperbole is the name of the game insofar as advertising whether for The Finest Gun in the World , LC Smith Long Range shotguns, Super-X shotgun shells, Packard...

The publication closed up shop in May 2022 and the Index & Reader was promised by the end of 2023; that gave the ex-publishers more than 1-1/2 years to work on it. I didn't order one and thought I'd wait and see what the feedback was after the I&R was released. As Jim posted here the current...

Not a vintage double but a 99 year old Model 12 Tournament Grade 12g pump gun, pretty much original except for the replacement buttstock with about 2-3/8” drop vs. its original high Trap comb. Nickel Steel, 32" barrel and solid rib. She made her sporting clays debut with 100 birds today and cam...

Righteous Model 21's typically have the so-called "drain hole" plugged with a steel pin that's left in the white. What looks like solder in the auction pic might be that steel plug pin? frank

This is "Vixen" my long time grouse gun; she's a second year (1913) Sterlingworth 20-gauge 28", new buttstock and converted to long tang/straight grip and nothing else done beyond rechamber to 2-3/4" and rechoke to Mod & I-Mod. That "Sterlingworth" stamped into the ...

OK so here's a pic of Jeff showing good form on Station 16 of the Main Course. His Hawaiian shirt and lei partially covered by shooting vest. The trapper/score gal is Taylar. Friend Jeff, nice that you’re pumped on the Hawaiian aspect of the Northern. Do you want me to post a summary of our txts bef...