Fox Collectors

HI,
New to the forum and just got a 16 ga Sterlingworth. 1919 gun. It has #3 barrels. Can someone give me a quick rundown of the barrel numbering system? If the info is somewhere and I can't find it, just point me in the right direction.

Thanks, Sneem

It's in the MacIntosh book if you have that; I'd shoot you a run down but I'm at work and don't have the book here. Mods: given the number of inquiries about this that info might make a good sticky?

how detailed are you looking for

Basically 0 is the heaviest and only used on HE grade and a handful of SWs near the end.

4 weight is the lightest.

McIntosh's book does give weight for length and bore for each marking but they do not seem to necessarily correlate to correct finished production barrels.

ASavageFox is close, but not quite right.

12-ga. and 16-ga. guns had a numbering system sequence that is 1-2-3-4, with 4 being the lightest. In about 1922, the factory added a fifth 12-ga. class, No. 0, for the Super-Fox. For some reason, 20-ga. barrels were given a slightly different numbering sequence 0-2-3-4, again with 4 being the lightest.

As others mentioned, the chart is in the book by Michael McIntosh entitled A.H. FOX "The Finest Gun in the World". Accoding to factory standards, barrels could not vary more than one ounce per pair from the weights specified. As I understand it, the weights published were unstruck barrel weights. I thought someone went through the effort to replicate and post the entire chart on this website, but I couldn't find it when doing a search, perhaps I'm mistaken and it was posted elsewhere or maybe I wasn't using the right search words.

OK, Thamks. That's basically what I was looking for. I didn't know which way the numbers went from heaviest to lightest or if there was more to it. #3 barrels would be on the light end but not the very lighest. The gun goes slightly over 6 pounds and feels very handy.

What is the weight markings on HE 20 gauge?