Fox Collectors

I have been shooting a Utica Sterlingworth 16 quite well this summer, but when I shot it yesterday, the front trigger was breaking much too easily causing the gun to fire just a little premature as I was swinging thru the clay bird. I appreciate a light trigger on a rifle but not on a shotgun. Is there any cure or adjustment for this?

Yes.But a gunsmith that is familiar with adjusting trigger pulls needs to work on gun for you.Bobby

3birddogs wrote:I have been shooting a Utica Sterlingworth 16 quite well this summer, but when I shot it yesterday, the front trigger was breaking much too easily causing the gun to fire just a little premature as I was swinging thru the clay bird. I appreciate a light trigger on a rifle but not on a shotgun. Is there any cure or adjustment for this?

If this just happened all of a sudden I would start off with a good cleaning before I sent it off to a smith. Normally I don't recommend compressed air but in this case a bit of a blow out with an aerosol can followed by a judicious lube with a water displacing lube such as Breakfree of the innards and trigger plate may solve your problem.

In putting tens of thousands of rounds through my Foxes I've have had several instances of hair-set and/or failure to set triggers. In each case the cause was debris under the triggers. The design is such that burned powder flakes have a direct entry to the internals and eventually migrate to the lowest point in the action....beneath the triggers. In one case involving a restock, it took a few hundred rounds, but a tiny wood chip found its way there, too. The good news is that the trigger plate can be removed for inspection with minimal disassembly.