Difficulty of finding a forearm??

[tha_cyko]

Hi I'm new to the Fox forums, but not new guns..My uncle passed away last month and left me his guns including 2 incomplete Fox shotguns the first is a 12ga barrel and forearm, missing reiceiver and shoulder stock. The second is a 410 missing the forearm. What the difficulty of finding a forearm for a 410 Model "B" Savage Fox?? I've looked around the net for the past week with no luck..

thanks for any help
Dave

[tha_cyko]

Or is there any other shotgun forearms that would fit?

[bbman3]

Stevens 311 410 . Bobby

[Silvers]

Dave, if your 12 gauge barrel and forend are for an original A H Fox designed shotgun, their chance of fitting on another Fox frame and buttstock, is about nil. Parts were made before modern match-machining techniques, and every shotgun was hand fitted. Of course you have a family connection to the parts, and I can certainly understand you trying to get a usable Fox gun put back together. But you'll have to find the back end of another Fox with compatible frame dimensions, and have a good guy put them together in a shop setting. Sorry, but this won't be easy nor cheap. Silvers

[saddlesore]

If you can find the metal ,I can make you a forearm fairly inexpensively.

I'd try to sell the 12 gauge barrel. Finding an action is pretty tough.

[tha_cyko]

Well i feel like a total Idiot!!! I didnt read the barrel. Its a 20ga not 410. When my grandfather gave it to me he said 410 and i never caught that it was a 20ga

So this is what i inherited a 20ga srock and barrel, need forearm, and a 12ga barrel and forearm

[bbman3]

A 20 gauge 311 Savage or Stevens forend may work.

[tha_cyko]

thanks, i'm going to look into the 311 stevens

[Researcher]

Your 20-gauge Model B is a fairly early Model B with the Utica, NY, address. Savage introduced the Model B to their Fox line in 1940. In 1947, Savage consolidated their sporting arms manufacturing at their old J. Stevens Arms Co. factories at Chicopee Falls, Mass. The old factory at Utica went to making washing machines for the post-War housing boom.

Numerich has some Model B forearms, but there are so many different series made up into the 1980s, I don't know if they have the right one for your gun --

http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Pro ... catid=5623

[Fin2Feather]

Dumb question, but have you checked to make sure the forend isn't for the 20ga? Seems like quite a coincidence to have a gun missing a forarm and a set of barrels missing everything but!

[tha_cyko]

yes i did try, they have different latches though, that forend is definitely for the 12ga barrel. and the 12ga barrel definitely does not fit the 20ga receiver.

[vaturkey]

Looks like a 12 gauge SW barrels with forearm (just by the shape). Philly set of barrels I'm guessing. S/N on the barrels and what's written on the top would tell us everything.