Fox Collectors

This ad appeared in the January 4, 1908 Sporting Life



Dr. Jim records 17,867 Smith guns shipped in 1907.
Did Fox really exceed that?

The July 4, 1914 issue of Forest & Stream was devoted to trap shooting https://archive.org/details/foreststream831914newy/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater This ad appeared for the "New Fox Trap Gun" Was a "Trap Gun" double offered in Fox catalogs? https://photos.smugmug.com/US-M...

Everyone no doubt has seen this ad, but if interested there is quite a bit of information regarding Schmelzer here https://www.trapshooters.com/threads/kansas-city-shooting-parks-c-1900.824043/#post-9265570 https://photos.smugmug.com/US-Makers/Fox/i-LfPLQwR/0/780fb707/XL/Schmelzer%20A.H._Fox%20ad-XL...

Late to the party.
Both guns carry 1954-1989 Proof Marks
Stan's was London Proved in 1975

Likely a dyslexic typo for the Model 1912 Bobby, but possibly a typo for the abominable Winchester Model 1911 SL shotgun

1922 National Sportsman subscription sales guns. Most sporting goods catalogs listed the Sterlingworth for $36.50; $48.40 with AE

The A.H. Fox Gun Co. used Krupp steel on the graded guns from its beginning in 1906, with “Sterlingworth Fluid Compressed Steel” for the lower priced Sterlingworth in 1910. “Chromox High Pressure Fluid Steel” was introduced in 1912, presumed to be chrome, nickel and vanadium https://books.google.com...

What was this all about?
October 6, 1906 "Sporting Life"
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collec ... 12/rec/269



I don't have a Folsom 'Fox' tradename gun on my list.

May 1903 and Winchester was still using Fox in an ad listing the 1902 reps https://photos.smugmug.com/US-Makers/Fox/i-jtJSTM2/0/a945478d/L/5-16-1903%20Sporting%20Life-L.png The Philadelphia Arms announcement February 6, 1904 https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/39144/rec/243 h...

June 1910 ad
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The "Outdoor Life" archives are here, and about every issue in 1907 & 1908 had a Fox ad.
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/w ... utdoorlife

Another by Col. Askins in the December 1925 Outdoor Life - Comparative Patterns Super-Fox, Smith Long Range & Ithaca 10g
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor ... ew=theater

December 1923 “10 Bores and Progressive Powders” https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1923-12_52_6/page/442/mode/2up Super-X "Field" 10g 2 7/8" DuPont No. 93 1 1/4 oz. (215 pellets No. 4) with 48 gr. = 6787 psi with max. 8,086 + 10 - 14% 1 5/8 oz. (230 pellets No. 4) = 6,608 p...

Scroll down about 2/3 here for an explanation and images of the lead crusher device and tarage table https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F2sQuPm05IE4VWYYnCkvuXmYEzQoWd_SQgaAfUOZEFU/edit Wallace H. Coxe, in “Smokeless Shotgun Powders: Their Development, Composition and Ballistic Characteristics” publ...

Wow. Found this TODAY and logged in to post! Capt. Charles Askins and E.M. Sweeley “Ballistics of the Shotgun” series in Outdoor Life November 1923, “An American Super 12” The Super Fox boring & patterns https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1923-11_52_5/page/356/mode/2up DuPont No. 93 ( ...