HE Super Fox

[mobirdhunter]

Nice Fox. So, for what will you use this gun? How much does it weigh now?

[Frank Good]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Nice Fox. So, for what will you use this gun? How much does it weigh now?

No idea what it weighs as I have not weighed it. I don't know if a digital bathroom scale would be accurate? I could try that I guess or I could hook it onto my digital fish scale and see what it shows. I've never had one in hand before so cannot offer a comparison to a 30" or 32" models swing and handling characteristics but this one comes up very nicely and does not feel either muzzle heavy nor muzzle light. The weight is between the hands and the gun swings smoothly and fluently for me. It feels like a heavier version of my NID4E. I bought it to hunt waterfowl with on occasion. Should make a good late season honker bonker!

[mobirdhunter]

If not too heavy, I’ll wager it would also scare pheasants.

Good luck with your new gun!

[Bill Murphy]

Your wife likely has a food scale in the kitchen. The bore micrometer, not so much.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

If not too heavy, I’ll wager it would also scare pheasants.

All of them I’ve ever had hands were usually nine plus pounds . His letter says 8 pounds 14 ounces .

[Bill Murphy]

A 28" shortened Super Fox was sold in VA a few years ago, but this is probably not that gun. I have the serial number in my files but zero chance of finding it. It is very easy to find out what amount of choke is left at 28". It requires a bore micrometer.

[Researcher]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

A 28" shortened Super Fox was sold in VA a few years ago, but this is probably not that gun. I have the serial number in my files but zero chance of finding it. It is very easy to find out what amount of choke is left at 28". It requires a bore micrometer.

There was such a gun at several evolutions of the gun show at the Expomart east of Richmond in the years before I left the Old Dominion 23 years ago. Like you bill, I'm sure I have the serial number on a scrap of paper somewhere.

[Frank Good]

Here are a few more pics. Thursday morning she'll be heading out to a goose hunt in a pea field. I don't have a bore mic available to me except with a friend 4 hours drive away so I'll be taking some large 4'x4' cardboard sheets with me scouting this evening and a handful of 2 3/4" light field load #4 shot to see what kind of patterns I get and to test fire it to make sure all is in order.
In one of the pics I laid it along side my NID4E for a size comparison. That receiver makes my NID look like a 20ga frame next to this lovely beast!

[Frank Good]

I took the gun out tonight to test fire. No issues at all except for what I consider a pretty heavy trigger pull. I do not have access to a bore mic except for a friend who lives 4 hours drive but based on what I saw on cardboard tonight I would say there is plenty of choke left to kill geese and ducks to 40 to 45 yards no problem.