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The screw plugs on repro Silver's type pads typically don't fit as tightly as in original S W Silver & Co pads, and besides yours seem to be a different color shade and may be as supplied with a different repro pad. I've seen people put a wrap or two of Scotch tape around the circumference of il...

Info on Hausmann's and the Northeast Side by Side (June 6-8) can be found here .....

www.hhhsc.net

I blame Jack O'Connor. From WW-II to the early 1970s preaching the virtues of his 26-inch barrel doubles from his pulpit in Outdoor Life . I've followed Cactus Jack's writings on hunting, rifles and shotguns in the Outdoor Life magazine and in his books since I was a teen. He was an honest writer w...

Wow it sure looks like someone had to work at bending that plate and gouging/drilling (?) a hole through it! I wonder what the plate and mechanism look like inside? Assuming no major internal damages and from what I can see ..... the plate can be straightened somewhat, that hole filled and microweld...

It's hard to give good advice without seeing the damage. Post a pic or two of the tampering. Posting instructions are in the first sticky in the Fox Collectors Forum. frank

12 is larger than 16/20 but in either case the trigger plate was fitted and contoured along with the frame and the chance of another plate fitting and looking proper is about nil. frank

(snip) ..... Hunted hard and just shellac peeling off from hard use. They didn't put an oil finish on those Sterly's. Actually Sterlingworths of your vintage were finished with E I duPont's 'Duco" nitrocellulose lacquer with some stain added. Lacquer thinner might be better for cleanup of the ...

29.5" corresponds to 75 cm which was/is a typical metric barrel length. Possibly Fox made up these barrels for a foreign order that never materialized or was cancelled. Keels were soldered in place after the ribs were done. I'm familiar with keel replacements and I use mild steel fillers and an...

Just another option to revert if you like longer barrels and/or tighter chokes. An A-Grade barrel can be fitted, barrel wedges engraved, serial number and Grade stamps microtigged, machined and redone with the frame s/n and X Grade stamp. Proper size/font a must. Lastly, properly reblued. frank . He...

Thanks Paul for posting. Looks good to me. One odd thing is that your gun obviously went to Savage at some point but it doesn't have the SP/oval re-proof mark. But with that said I'm sure Savage didn't do the barrel shortening. If I owned your XE I'd get the two compression marks (vise?) on the fram...

Sorry for a tangent here but more on what a one arm shotgun shooter can do. One of my friends has regulation trap and skeet fields at his farm and he holds biweekly shoots during the warmer weather months. One high average Trap shooter is a regular; he lost his right arm just above the elbow and his...

I suppose it doesn't matter one whit to most readers but we have a segment that are Fox purists looking for absolute originality in guns and to include proper Fox lingo. In line with that the "Order Card" nomenclature seems to have crept into Foxese. I've read posts on the Parker Forum tha...

A 16-gauge AE I had at one time. Ordered with heavy dark curly stock and to balance at the trigger guard ...... "Customer has only one arm". frank
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So happy for Shane and you Stan. Looks like a mature bird and a well set picture. First of many I predict; grouse hunting can get into your blood. Thanks for posting and wishing a joyous Christmas to the Hoovers. frank

Roger, so nice to see your Faith and Emma and your way cool Reynard out hunting and making memories; so many Fox smallbore customs seem to mainly gather dust except for show & tell sessions in the den or on a show table. Thank you for posting. A joyous Christmas to you and yours. frank