Fox Collectors

i was just on the galazan site and it came to me that i think if galazan were to make a "sterlingworth" grade or even a super fox grade gun in the say $4000 price range that would compete with the berettas and gold labels of the world he could make a good profit. i think there would be a market for a good american made sxs hunting gun. the ruger sxs isnt in production anymore and i think something like that would fill that void. has anyone ever brought up that idea or do you think that galazan does well enough with what hes got that it would be unwise for him to start in an endevor like that?

eddie

Ed, Galazan is already trying to fill the "void" with his RBL. He seems to be doing it in a calculated,systematic way. Hopefully his plan will work and quality American made side by sides will be around a long while.
Dave

I thought the mid level gun Tony should have produced is the SP/SPE Fox, not the RBL. The SP is a much more handsome gun and has a USA heritage.

I've alway's thought that if Tony would offer a graded Fox at a good price-point he would sell a boat load of them. Imagine if you could buy a new A-Grade with modern dimensions, modern steels, possible some options like wood up-grades, barrel length's, triggers & configurations for let's say base priced around $5000.00. Would you buy one? I know I would!

It's looking like Tony will have produced somewhere around 2500 RBL launch edition guns and I commend him for doing this project. I own one and have one of the 28ga guns on order. I've never been able to afford his Foxes though simply for the fact of the price of them. But I'll sell something to make room in my safe if he would ever make a lower grade Fox that I could afford.

He could have made the Fox just as easily as he did the RBL! Then again this probably would have erroded the maket for the high grade Foxes he sells now.

I think Tonys's goal of reintroducing the Fox guns in the higher grades was to create art more than just a usable tool. He has succeeded magnificently and there are still enough good sound Sterlingworths around for those of us that are minimalists or wish to create our own custom gun.

well i think if your going to buy a new fox starting at $13000 your investing in a piece of artwork and not so much a working firearm. i know that if there were to be a new fox sxs in a HE platform that you could shoot steel through for under 5k i would be buying one. i know of more then a few folks up my way that hunt with nice guns and big sxs 10ga that would probably hunt with a gun that has a history to it and thats modern enough to do some high volume shooting without worry.

found an early a grade 12ga 30"bbls f/im in awesome shape by appearance today for $1000 at a local gun show. i wanted it bad but im not in a position to buy another one right now. that and 6 boxes of #6 bismuth for $10 a box in 12ga 3" that i almost took home but i dont know of anyone that reloads to reclaim the shot and 3"wont fit my s'worth. probably should have bought it anyways and looked after but oh well.

Ed, you should have bought those shells. My favorite Sterlingworth has 3 1/4" chambers and has digested steel, but $10 a box Bismuth would be nice. By the way, Tony has built at least one A Grade, a 20 gauge priced at $9995 about three or four years ago. I almost bought it, but the 28" barrels just weren't what I wanted. It was a beautiful gun. He may have built more, but I have only seen the one. It was engraved with the first generation pattern, was stocked in what looked like very straight grain Juglans Regia with wonderful color.

yea i wish i would have. i almost ran to an atm to get some cash but i had to head home soon cause that nice ice storm that hit new york and vt saturday was nipping at my heels and i was over an hour from home and had to pass through a portion of the great green mountains.

well i would love to have a super fox or even a modern fox minus some of the engraving and fancy checker and graded wood. i wonder what the price would be if i asked to order a gun with a plain american walnut stock skip the engraving and put a sterlingworth checker pattern on it with 3" chambers and 30" barrels in 12ga.

eddie

Why not buy say.. 3 old sound Sterlingworths or "A" grades and shoot all the steel shot you want thru them Im sure if you wore one out,three would last a life time,and still less expensive than a new gun... I doubt you'll ever see Galazan make a 12 ga Fox,
... or if you still want a "new" american classic ..the Parker reproductions had a "Steel shot"special in 12 ga.

Yup, Ed, Tony does not make a 12 gauge frame gun. High condition 12 gauge Foxes are too common for him to bother. Building a plain jane 12 gauge Fox custom is a fairly simple project for a talented gunsmith.

do you know of any gunsmiths that would be capable of doing that? even if i have to settle for 20ga i just dont want to have to worry about using steel shot.