Honey & Smoke

[Frank Srebro]

I was telling some friends while at the Northern, about a second gen Fox BE that was returning home. I found this gun years ago out in Iowa but sold her to help fund a really high end Fox. I always regretted doing that. Just recently the kind gent asked if I wanted her back because he had moved to another gun focus. Of course I jumped. She has a really nice “honey & smoke” stock and I wanted to show that here. Cell phone pics not the best and taken after unpacking and while hanging on our stand for the hummingbird feeder. (Back lawn is all dried up from the really hot temps and little rain over the past month.) While there a ruby throat hummer checked her out and I’ve decided to name the returning babe: Ruby

12 gauge/32-inch with 1-weight Krupp barrels on the light side, and choked Mod & Full. Only 2-1/4” drop at heel. Not many second gen BE’s were made and very few with 32’s and straight grip. It’s only my opinion, that the second gen B’s looked too much like the later D Grade that was selling for multiples more. Thus the B Grade was pulled from the catalogue after only a few years. Welcome home!


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[Daryl Corona]

She's a beauty Frank. How did you ever let her go? You know my love for straight stocks and 32" barrels. :bowdown: Boy would she look great alongside my 30" BE.:)

[Dean Romig]

.....and they say that "Lightning never strikes twice."

Good for you Frank!

If you do anything dumb with it this time, please 'do it' my way!





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[charlie cleveland]

nice gun frank...charlie

[Mills Morrison]

Foxes are great guns

[Steve Cambria]

RUBY?? I thought maybe "MACARTHUR", [/I[I]]"BOOMER-RANG" or "LITTLE SHEBA??" Nice return to sender action, Silvs!

PS---God love Iowa! Home to some pretty neat Fox guns :whistle:

[Rich Anderson]

Congrats on bring it back home Frank. I'd love to see it sometime.

[Greg Baehman]

I found this gun years ago out in Iowa but sold her to help fund a really high end Fox.

Thanks for showing us Ruby, she's a beauty. But, I and I'm sure others would love to see that really high end Fox that lured you into giving her up years ago.

[Daryl Corona]

Thanks for showing us Ruby, she's a beauty. But, I and I'm sure others would love to see that really high end Fox that lured you into giving her up years ago.

All Frank has are high end Foxes.:bowdown:

[Frank Srebro]

Thanks for showing us Ruby, she's a beauty. But, I and I'm sure others would love to see that really high end Fox that lured you into giving her up years ago.

See the Autumn 2013 DGJ for the pictures and article. Fox Live Bird gun similar to a D Grade but with many nuances, almost certainly engraved by Gough. Sorry Greg the publishing copyrights were assigned to the DGJ and I can't post those pics here.

[Frank Srebro]

All Frank has are high end Foxes.:bowdown:

Not really Daryl. I have some honest Sterlies that went through hard times and have good memories in them. There's nothing like hunting with one to take a time travel trip.

[Greg Baehman]

See the Autumn 2013 DGJ for the pictures and article. Fox Live Bird gun similar to a D Grade but with many nuances, almost certainly engraved by Gough. Sorry Greg the publishing copyrights were assigned to the DGJ and I can't post those pics here.
Wow! . . . I just read and re-read your uber-informative and well-written article---twice. Anyone wanting to expand their knowledge of pigeon guns and this gun in particular, would do themselves a favor by absorbing what Frank has put down in print. Thank you Frank! :bowdown: