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B Grade Questions

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:17 pm
by wannagohunting
I have this B Grade Fox 12ga. I have a few questions. Pics attached.
1. Did all B Grades have checkered side panels on the buttstock?
2. I am doubtfull this beavertail forend with recessed latch would be from factory?
Year made?
Thank you,
Dale
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Re: B Grade Questions

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:22 pm
by wannagohunting
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Re: B Grade Questions

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:27 pm
by Researcher
The catalog pictures of all four styles of B-Grades show checkered stock cheeks. The B-Grade was discontinued well before beavertail forearms appear in the records. Sometime back Tom Wyraz posted this picture of factory beavertails --
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and the levers are always flush.

AHFCA members can get a jpeg of one graded gun production card with their membership and can get additional for $25 via paypal. The old Lightner Library serial number chronology puts your gun in 1917.