D Special - Paper Weight

[oganza]

All that I have is the receiver. Engraving looks like standard HE pattern. Hopefully, the left side will clean up.
According to the card, there was a special pattern engraved on the barrel. We won't know unless the barrels turn up somewhere.
At one time it was a 7lbs. gun with 32" barrels and 3" chambers.

I'm planning on trying to bring it back to life. I have trigger plates and top-levers that I can fit.
Right now I am torn between gathering ejector receiver parts and a forend or using a beater Sterlingworth ejector, that I already have, as the donor for all of the parts.

At some point after it is functional, I will look into having the top-lever, trigger plate, and barrels engraved to match the frame.

[fox-admin]

Good luck keep us posted on your progress---ambitious project.

[vaturkey]

Finding 32" graded barrels is going to be the hardest thing to find. That will be the long pole in the tent.

[Researcher]

While that isn't much more engraving then an HE-Grade, it appears to my eye to be much better quality engraving. Also nice to see the frame has the higher grade rebates. Interesting find. I enjoyed doing that card.

[oganza]

I have found a set of 32" A-grade ejector barrels...But they are already fitted to the Chrome-Plated XE that I found 3 years ago.
The XE is a shooter for now. It will get de-plated, case colored and have barrel wedges engraved at some point.

I have a set of 32" Sterlingworth barrels that will likely end up on the D-Special, if they are wide enough to be fit to it.
They are 2-weight, if I remember correctly, so the gun would end up a bit heavier than original. I would have to fit ejectors to them, but that's not a problem.

I may strip a beater Sterly ejector and make a 28" & 32" set. I could use the snap on forearm and eventually change the barrel lugs to use a graded latch.

I do have an X-grade stock with rebates, but there is no telling if it would fit.

Deciding on the engraving pattern for the trigger plate will be a fun project.

Would the barrels have originally been Krupp or Chromax?

[Brian Dudley]

Is that a super fox frame?

[Researcher]

That is a 5000 lower serial number then the first Super-Fox

[Silvers]

Nice find and a very worthwhile restoration project. I personally would use a Deeley latched barrel. Just based on my own records the changeover from Krupp to Chromox in 12-gauge happened in the 23,000 s/n bracket. Yeah I know Fox didn't ship in exact s/n sequence and there will be some wide number exceptions. That 3-inch chambering is seen on record cards once in a while and I've measured a few original Foxes made thusly. JFI, those pre-Super-Fox guns were not marked 3-inch in any way.

Sometimes you come across high grade Fox components that make you scratch your head. Recent example is an early D-Grade stock with original finish, s/n 790x, that I got at the Northeast SxS in June. It came in a box with the name "Johansen" written on it. Not sure what I'll do with the stock as yet but it's a close fit on a 978x early A grade frame I found another time. No records available for either serial number.

[eightbore]

Can we see a scan of the card? Thanks.

[Researcher]

Bill,

It is posted in the Members Forum.

[oganza]

The head scratching high grade fox component for me was a round knob X-Grade stock that had dowels fitted at both ends.
Obviously for use on a duplicator. Had no damage after the dowels were removed. Even the finish was in good shape.

here is a copy of the card.

[jolly bill]

Oganza,

I posted a Reply to your note in the Lost and Found heading below but will copy it here just in case:

I have a set of orphaned 12 gauge CE barrels that I'm looking to find the rest of the gun to get them back together. See my thread below for the details or:

http://foxcollectors.com/My%20Forum/php ... =40&t=6960

Those are 30 inch Full and Full Chromox 4 weight barrels with SN 29271 by the way. They weigh 3 pounds 4 ounces. Would like to find the current owner of 29271 but if I don't, will market them.

Jolly

[Fin2Feather]

Well, as a paper weight it beats the heck out of the head I broke off my 3 wood.

[eightbore]

A seven pound 32" Fox with 3" chamber and 13 1/4" stock! Can anyone decipher the name of the customer so we can search for him?

[terc]

Bill , It looks like Peter Marhsits or Peter Marksits to me.