Info Request

[2a808]

New Fox Collectors member. I inherited from my grandfather a Savage Fox Sterlingworth 12 gauge double barrel shotgun. I would like any help you can give me on the date of manufacture, etc. Here are the specifications:

Serial Number 133194 - on barrel; stock; forearm and trigger guard
30 " barrels
Walnut stock and forearm
Marked on barrels as: Savage Arms Corporation Utica NY USA and Special Alloy Forged Steel
2-3/4" chamber
Fox Sterlingworth on both sides of the receiver

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Researcher]

The A.H. Fox Collectors Association, Inc. only has photocopies of the production cards for graded guns, A to FE. No cards for the Sterlingworths. A few years ago, Savage Arms sent all the A.H. Fox production cards to the McCracken Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. You can get a letter on your Fox-Sterlingworth from them.

https://centerofthewest.org/explore/fir ... ds/savage/

From my observations, 133194 will be a drawbolt gun with 30-inch barrels. They were made 1939 and later. The drawbolt guns have a wide top tang with a slotted screw head at the back end --

[2a808]

Thanks for the info. I'll reach out to the Center of the West.

Another newby question: A local gunsmith recommended that I get a pair of A-Zoom Snap Caps to store my Sterlingworth. Is this a common practice for these drawbolt shotguns?

much appreciated

[Researcher]

Fox advertising back in the day said you could snap the gun all you wanted without snap-caps. That said, all of my Fox shotguns are sitting hammers down on good quality snap-caps.

[2a808]

Thanks. I picked up a couple of the A-Zoom Snap Caps. Have not put them in yet. Do these qualify a good quality?