Fox Collectors

I bought this AE 12g 4-5 yrs ago with a cracked restock and deactivated ejectors. It's been sitting around waiting for work. I finally had it restocked and freshened finishes on the reciever and triggerguard.

The dimensions are 1 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 14 1/2, 3" pitch with ever so slight cast off. Checker pattern is a X grade style. Wood is 35 yr old from Pachmyr. Orig F/M chokes. It came out 7lbs 2 oz and should make a dandy wild phez gun for a blocker.

Turnbull casehardening and triggerguard blue.

Sweet, I love the foreend tip

Very nice! Beautiful gun. The stock is great, excellent figure.

Very nicely done checkering. I'll second that on the fore end tip. I'd have a hard time shooting birds due to gawking at the gun all day.

Chuck, that is a great looking gun - nicely done and a great stick of wood. Congratulations!

Question from a neophyte: I've not seen a forend tip like that before; is it something one might see on a high-grade Fox, or a custom detail by the owner? Beautiful gun either way...

Fin, Check back a few threads to XE project gun. Chuck went with XE checkering on this gun. Looks a lot like the XE project tip. Fred

Here's a side view picture of the Fox XE gun with the original ebony forend tip installed. There may be some slight variation in the factory profilies due to the hand labor involved but this matches the ones that i've seen in the past. Hope this helps.

Doug

Doug, That wouldn't be another little teaser would it?

Chuck your a lucky man to own such a wonderful FOX, you have got to be one happy camper owning that baby!

Nice Job!

OK, since I've already shown my ignorance (happens quite often), is there a purpose for the tip, or is it merely decorative? I'm thinking it might serve to lay one's forefinger against when pointing at the target; then again, maybe I'm over-thinking it?

Fin2Feather wrote:OK, since I've already shown my ignorance (happens quite often), is there a purpose for the tip, or is it merely decorative? I'm thinking it might serve to lay one's forefinger against when pointing at the target; then again, maybe I'm over-thinking it?

IMHO, it is purely decorative. They do look very nice BTW. You have to understand, I'm 6'3" + so my left hand is normally out in front of the forend anyway just so I'm not cramped up in my arm. "Cramped up" isn't the best term I supose but its the first thing that comes to mind.

The forend tip of this type is shown in McIntosh's book on an X grade. I don't have his book with me as I'm in Hawaii at the moment. But, it's also shown on one of the X grade guns in the pics on the main page of this site. My stockmaker put a radius at the bottom of the V, I assume for ease of inletting, but may have also seen this variation on an original.