Fox Collectors

Simmons made 28-gauge and .410-bore Model 870s and Model 1100s before Remington did. This from the 1966 Simmons catalog --

The one piece of A.H. Fox literature that I've been waiting to see for 62 years is the tag as in "BARRELS NOT GUARANTEED-SEE TAG."

I remember seeing a pair of Remington Model 31s converted to 28-gauge and .410-bore at one of the big Nevada gun shows. If memory serves me, they were done by Purbaugh.

Nice score! That is the second Super-Fox brochure circa 1925. The original circa 1923 doesn't have the "Made in 12 and 20 gauge" on the front cover -- 1923 Super Fox brochure.jpg and has a price of $125 on page 19!! 1923 Super Fox Brochure pages 18 & 19.jpeg There are two different...

On the other hand a friend who just bought a righteous 16g 30” Steringworth on last Sunday shot 49/50 at 16 yard Trap with it on Thursday. Second round of 25 was straight. First time he fired the Sterly and that was from the low gun position. There’s no need for fancy Trap guns. :lol: . frank But t...

The Sterlingworth "Pin Guns" are about the first 12000 Sterlingworths, serial numbers beginning at 50000. When the Sterlingworth was introduced in 1910, it was marketed as a product of The Sterlingworth Company and guns up into the mid 53xxx serial number range are found so marked and the ...

The "Drawbolt" guns were a late Savage attempt to make the Fox-Sterlingworth more economical to build. They have a much wider top tang and the profile to the side of the frame is slightly different so that once one is familiar you can spot them. 133022 03.jpg 161515 02 Drawbolt.jpg The &qu...

The RAYBAR sight isn't in the 1954 Ithaca Gun Co. catalog. The next Ithaca Gun Co. catalog I have is undated (Green Cover) but had a 1957 price list with it and has a full page on the RAYBAR --

Just cruising GI while watching my U 0f W Huskies wake up and polish off Maryland!! I came across this Iver Johnson --
Gotta wonder what the thought process was here? The text says 16 1/2-inch LOP.

It is a 2 5/8-inch chamber which was intended for 2 3/4-inch shells. Back in the day several of the North American manufacturers held their chambers a bit short with the theory that the mouth of the shell casing extending an eighth of an inch into the forcing cone gave a better gas seal. The Remingt...

1913 was a great year for Ansley H. Fox 20-gauges --

Find a gun that already has a single trigger. Don't mess up a perfectly good double trigger gun!

To my folks, both raised in Minnesota, they were partridge.

I bet I did at the time, but where that scrap of paper is twenty years later is anyone's guess. As I remember Jack Puglisi had the gun.

Many years ago when I first started thinking about getting a 32-inch 20-gauge double, at the winter Las Vegas Show at the old Riviera that year I tallied six Parker Bros. all grade 2 & 3, a Crown Grade L.C. Smith, and a No. 5E NID, but not a 32-inch Fox 20-gauge in the place.