Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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Researcher wrote:I didn't look at my records, worked from memory!! Anyone have one of the guns from that third, earlier batch, that Frank reported in the 132383 to 132390 range? I've not recorded anything in that range...……………
Probably sitting in closets. Cards for (5) guns in that range are dated for shipment in 1937, 1938 and 1940.

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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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I wish our old buddy Pete had mentioned the serial numbers of the eightbores.
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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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Scaupman, that’s a neat Wildfowl gun. What is the single trigger?
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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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Foxnut - that’s a Kautzky single trigger.

As documented in the Callahan Letter, the gun was fully optioned, i.e., Kautzky ST, beavertail FE, 3 IN chambers, etc.
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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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scaupman wrote:
Researcher wrote:The Sterlingworth Wildfowl Grade is essentially the HE-Grade Super-Fox metal finished up in Sterlingworth finish. There appears to be two batches of Sterlingworth Wildfowl Grades. Maybe forty or so in the 1341xx serial number range. The ten that I have observed run from 134102 to 134130. Guns observed in this batch are stocked in Fox-Sterlingworth quality wood.
Dave - Apparently not all of the Wildfowls in the 1341xx range were stocked in Fox-Sterlingworth quality wood - here's a fully optioned Wildfowl, within the range you have recorded above, with a capped full-pistol grip stock and the original Hawkins pad. The Callahan letter indicates it was shipped in 1945 and says: "Of interest is the information is written on an "HE" grade card with the "HE" crossed out".
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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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Foxnut wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:09 pm Here are a couple of pictures of two Wildfowlers from the different Serial # batches that Dave referred to in the previous post. The first gun is Serial # 35170 and is fitted with HE wood with PG cap and Jostam Pad (as recorded in the letter). The second gun is Serial # 134112 and is a later gun fitted with Savage Sterlingworth non capped PG and a Pachmayr White Line Pad. This gun is in a block of Wildfowlers that the order cards are not available for. I have seen three of these guns including one that is a single digit off from my gun and all three have the Pachmayr White Line Pads fitted to them. Notice the Tiger Stripe coloring of the second gun consistent with the late Savage era guns. Both guns have the frame polish line of the Savage era guns directly above the "worth" portion of Sterlingworth on the frame side.

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Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but I came across it while looking for info on a Wildfowl i just bought. Mine is 134111, just one off of Foxnut's 134112. It has the standard butt plate. Does the wood looks to be standard for Sterlingworths for the time?
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Re: Fox Sterlingworth Heavy barrels (HE weight)

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NorthernBob,
Yes the wood appears to be of the standard Sterlingworth style and finish of that era w/the capless pistol grip and finish. Very nice gun. Nice catch. When I get a chance I’ll post a pic of one of the guns from the other batch that Frank mentioned in the post.
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