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Unread 08-23-2018, 03:06 PM   #31
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I just got around to measuring choke constriction on this little twenty-gauge Sterlingworth.

Right choke = .020"

Left choke = .038"...
Dean, I once owned a 20 bore Sterlingworth Ejector gun with 28-inch tubes and .626" bores with 20/R and 41/L points of constriction as measured with an accurate Stan Baker bore mike. I called it my "Super 20 Sterlingworth". Reason being that ordinary Fox 20's generally have bores of about .615" diameter - but the 60-some known HE Grade Super-Fox 20's were typically overbored to about .625/626".

Why my 20 bore Sterly Ejector was made with .626" diameter bores and 41 points of choke in the left tube is anyone's guess.

With this as background I wonder what the bore sizes measure on yours?

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My 12 gauge Sterly has .044" choke in each barrel It reaches WAY out
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Frank - I’ll measure the bores just as soon as I return home. And I'll post them here.

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Let me guess. You were in the store parking lot and there was a little old lady that needed help opening her stuck trunk lid and when you gave her a hand she propped the lid open with a leather case. Congrats!!
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Reason being that ordinary Fox 20's generally have bores of about .615" diameter - but the 60-some known HE Grade Super-Fox 20's were typically overbored to about .625/626".

Why my 20 bore Sterly Ejector was made with .626" diameter bores and 41 points of choke in the left tube is anyone's guess.

With this as background I wonder what the bore sizes measure on yours? frank
Just got around to measuring mine...

Right bore in beyond the 4” of choke taper is .620 and the left bore in beyond the 5 1/2” of choke taper is .622”

What does that tell you Frank?... if anything?






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Dean sounds like you have a Cliff Robertson AT&T Gun "Reach out and Touch Someone". That would be great high flying dove gun. No wonder it is in such pristine condition. Prior owners could not figure out what to hunt with that gun. By the time the pattern opens up on that gun birds are in the next county, if I am getting your constriction numbers correctly.

Might make a great early season teal gun, but on bigger puddle ducks I like a little more kaboom than a 20 gauge.

Oh that might make an incredible turkey gun with those tungsten loads. I wonder on a gun like that if they regulate the barrels out to greater distance.

BTW that is very nice gun. Hope it shoots as well as it looks and you can find some big open spaces to use it. You ever head to the Dakotas, that would be a gun to take. Load of #6 would be incredible on pheasants with that gun.

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Just got around to measuring mine...

Right bore in beyond the 4” of choke taper is .620 and the left bore in beyond the 5 1/2” of choke taper is .622”

What does that tell you Frank?... if anything?

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Dean, about 70% of the A H Fox 20 bore guns in my records have .615/616" bores, with a few outliers in the .617 to .620" diameter range. Many were measured using my current Baker bore mike which I've verified to be accurate, and others were done with two earlier mikes that had some +/- drift after being calibrated. Your bores are a little larger than typical but not that much so. Fox was buying barrel tubes from different specialty manufacturers and I'm sure the company ordered 20-gauge tubes within some range of tolerance on bore diameter. Fox also did the bore finish machining and on that note I've measured Fox guns with one bore (usually on the left) that was a few thou oversize relative to the opposite bore. It's my belief that such tubes were "reworked" by finishing oversize in order to remove machine tool marks such as a gouge or imperfection in the bore made during the first finish operation.

That 5-1/2" long choke is quite unusual in a Fox 20 bore and was probably done because of the very heavy choke constriction in the left tube. You might try patterning it some day with ducking size lead shot, maybe 4's or 5's.

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