AH Fox XE 16ga 30" circa 1914

[Craig Larter]

A new addition to my Fox family.

[Daryl Corona]

Spectacular.:bowdown:

[Randy G Roberts]

That's a gorgeous Fox, congrats on your find....

[Steve McCarty]

A new addition to my Fox family.

Teddy Roosevelt took one to Africa. That is an outstanding testimonial.

[Dan Steingraber]

Beautiful Fox. And another small bore. Welcome to the dark side.

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, can you post a copy of the record card? I have to know.

[Reggie Bishop]

Craig that one looks like a perfect fit for your collection.! Beautiful original Fox!

[Larry Stauch]

What a gun! The wood; the checkering; THE engraving!

[Dave Noreen]

Gotta love those early smallbores! Are the barrels Krupp or Chromox?

[Craig Larter]

Gotta love those early smallbores! Are the barrels Krupp or Chromox?

Krupp

[Garry L Gordon]

What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.

[Dan Steingraber]

What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.

My guess is that beautiful Fox is going to get to share a short boat ride with Nellie and get a chance to harvest a duck or 2 this fall.

[Chris Robenalt]

Very nice Craig! I was drawn to the eschetuen, I think i blew the spelling, but is this a snap on forend ejector like the Sterlingworth? I've never seen one on graded Foxes, except for Sterly customs such as Phil Carr's 20.

[tom tutwiler]

Craig, can you post a copy of the record card? I have to know.

Bill, the third photo down has the card shown on a tag.

[Brett Farley]

Craig, stunning XE w/lovely barrels!! Man Oh Man!!

[Keith Sirmans]

Man that nice nice!

[Phil Yearout]

Very nice Craig! I was drawn to the eschetuen, I think i blew the spelling, but is this a snap on forend ejector like the Sterlingworth? I've never seen one on graded Foxes, except for Sterly customs such as Phil Carr's 20.

My Fox A grade 20ga has the snap off forend; I don’t know what years they were made that way.

[Craig Larter]

My Fox A grade 20ga has the snap off forend; I don’t know what years they were made that way.

The snap on Kremer designed forend was used from about 1912 to 1915 on the graded Fox small bores.

[Dave Noreen]

In the graded 20-gauge guns I've recorded snap-on/-off forearms through about the first 700. In graded 16-gauge guns I haven't recorded any guns in the 3005xx and 3006xx range and by the 3007xx range I see Deeley latches. Actually 300590 has a Deeley latch but it has been so completely CSMC'd that I don't count it.

Not to say I haven't recorded a handful of Deeley latches in these ranges.

[Craig Larter]

What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.

The sweet spot for American doubles for me are the Fox XE's and Parker BH's prior to WW!.

[Rich Anderson]

Congrats on another fine small bore. I hope you bring it to Georgia in January.
I have some 3/4 oz RST 16's along, perfect for Quail and an XE 16:bowdown:

[Mike Poindexter]

A beautiful gun! Did you by chance measure the down pitch of the barrels? Appears like it may be minimal from the pictures.

[Craig Larter]

How do u measure pitch? I put the butt on the floor and measure off the wall at the muzzle.

[Mike Poindexter]

Same. Butt flat on floor, top of action against wall, measure from wall to center of bores at 28". My own preference is usually around 3", but many guns show less than that, down to about 2. Anything less than 2" doesnt work for me. Others like it that way, however. Depends on your individual neck and shoulder geometry it seems.

[Craig Larter]

Same. Butt flat on floor, top of action against wall, measure from wall to center of bores at 28". My own preference is usually around 3", but many guns show less than that, down to about 2. Anything less than 2" doesnt work for me. Others like it that way, however. Depends on your individual neck and shoulder geometry it seems.

I get a measurement of 1 5/8"