Fox Collectors

ROMAC wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 8:32 am I had some luck talking to a small shop owner once by asking if he had any old recoil pads or buttplates for sale and he went in the back a pulled out a box the size of a case of beer full of stuff he took of shotguns and rifles over the years. He said I could have anything in the box for $5.00 each. I ended up spending $30.

He was happy, I was happier. I probably left behind stuff that I should have bought but at the time did not know what I was looking at.

thats a good idea

vaturkey wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:07 am Speaking of a nice pad you run into on occasion is the Hawkins Rifle pad with hearts that's probably 5/8" or so thick. They work and look amazingly well on a small bore Fox where you want to add just a bit to the length after you take off the buttplate. I have two of them on my Foxes currently. One on an A grade 16 and a Sterlingworth 16.

Tom is right-on regarding the thin Hawkins pads. Actually they're about .820" thick, call it 13/16", and it makes a classy addition to a smallbore Fox with buttplate and LOP a little short for many at about 14". Remove the buttplate, get one of these fitted without any mods to the wood, and you'll end up with about 14-7/16" LOP. Best of all the gun can be reverted to the factory buttplate when desired. I ran into a batch of these NOS/unfitted pads one year at the Southern and bought all the man had. Right after that a Dealer tracked me down there on-site and offered 3X what I paid, but I declined. $2.75 each when first offered in 1931. Ha ha. I still have a few in my inventory for special Foxes.

frank

Burt Becker used the Jostam pad on at least some of his wonder guns.
John

loggy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:18 pm Burt Becker used the Jostam pad on at least some of his wonder guns.
John

I think he was a big fan of the Jostam Hy-gun pad.

There is also the thin Jotsam single ply sponge pad found on occasion. This one is from the $5.00 box I mentioned. I think I am missing the base and a few tacks.

ROMAC wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:48 pm There is also the thin Jotsam single ply sponge pad found on occasion. This one is from the $5.00 box I mentioned. I think I am missing the base and a few tacks.

I sold two of those NIB last year on here to a board member. Mine were the double ply with another rubber thin pad in the center. Came with a pile of tacks still in the box. I had Dan Rossiter install one on a Parker years ago and he said it was a sumbitch to put it on the gun. think it was a combination of the tacks and glue. He said it was never going to come off. Fellow who bought the gun loved the pad. He said he saw it on the rack and knew exactly what it was and it was a good selling point.

I don't think this one was ever fitted. The bottom has a lip along the side that would been ground away or at least look different to my eye if it had been on a gun.

The bottom does not show any old glue either.