Fox Collectors

Just put my minty Mag Ten up for auction. I may regret that, but it's gone. A friend bought it, and will price it for more than I will pay. Oh, well.

Serial number over #500,000 is factory 3 1/2". Lower numbers would be a 2 7/8" gun rechambered to 3 1/2".

I used to love going to Louisville. Fly in on a ridiculously cheap Southwest flight, rent a car, drive across the street to the show, turn the car in with about a half mile on the trip odometer. Pork chop sandwich from the lobby vendor for lunch.

If card information somehow escapes the custody of designated AHFCA custodians, it should not be considered a theft by an unnamed person. There are more than one set of cards that aren't and never were the property of the AHFCA. Cody is one possibility, as well as some privately owned sets that neve...

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AS was a wonderful publication. Kodl covered collector gun values, live pigeon shooting and other subjects not covered by other gun and outdoor publications.

The American Shotgunner article was in the January 1987 issue. The Criswell ad for the gun was in his November 1986 and probably the December 1986 mailer. I don't know whether McIntosh's book, or the Criswell ad came first, but they shared identical information. The AS article mentions that Criswell...

I was looking at a picture of John Bailey's Ithaca yesterday. It looks like a Grade 4. However, I'm not up on mid grade Ithacas, could be a Grade 3. It was a beautiful gun. I wish I could remember where the picture was.

McIntosh is probably referring to Criswell when he mentions a California ad in December 1986. That should be close to the date of the American Shotgunner. A piece of cake if you save such stuff.

My prewar Model 21, 28", non ejector 20 gauge weighed six pounds, four ounces. It had a canoe paddle pistol grip stock and splinter forend. With some drilling of the stock through the butt, I'm sure I could have gotten under six pounds. Unfortunately, this great gun has joined someone else's co...

The article says it was on Don Criswell's list. It goes back a ways. Is the date of the article possibly on the other side of the clipping? I assume a photocopy wouldn't include the back of the page.

Yup, 1922 Winchester pad, no refinish. Great minds think alike.

Try "gunparts.com", Numrich Arms, or Jason Barden, Fox Parts,on this site.

Not too common. Some day they will be worth the big buck. Tony probably has barrels of them stored away.

An A-5 can be adjusted to shoot almost anything. My 12 gauge A-5s shoot 1175 fps 7/8 ounce loads just fine. I have cut a friction ring in half and used each half in two different guns. A normal ring adjustment to the light setting may work for you.