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Fox 20 gauge
Have a line on a Fox 20 gauge don't know whether it's a Sterlingworth , A or maybe even one of the Savage/Fox B's !
But I think I'll go take a look at it just the same . Also have a Remington 1889 12 gauge . I'm not overly big on hammerguns but since I'll be there may as well look that one over as well . |
Let me know what you find out about the Fox.
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don't pay fox sterlingworth price for glorified stevens 311 gon...
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Well the thing turned out to be a first year of production Sterlingworth .
Which I gotta say surprised me a good bit . The rest of the stuff with it was not of the same caliber IMHO . I'll go back tommorrow evening and see if I can make it mine :whistle: |
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This thing has 26" barrels that unless I'm mistaken were choked IC/M ! |
Oh yeah the 1889 Remington looked very nice . But it wasn't calling me LOL's !
The little Fox looked decent and of all things they had an old top lever H&R 16 gauge single shot I think I might try and acquire as well . |
I do not think there is anything wrong with Stevens 311/ Fox Model Bs. They are heavy though I examined a 16 ga 28'' barrel was 7lbs 8 oz.
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boy thats heavy for a 16 ga even in a stevens ..i guess i ll get dusted but i likev like the old 311 s..got a 410 two 16 s and a 12 in them and that 12 ga has been chambered two a 3 1/2 inch gun..there tough old guns not fancy but reliable.. charlie
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In a perfect world I'd not own a side by side that was made after 1929 but then the World's certainly not perfect :banghead: |
Mr. Thompson
I was going to ask you in another thread what you thought of Ballard rifles as a BPCR. When I was young I went on a trip with my parents to Wyoming and ended up in a shop with a whole bunch of them do not remember much more I was only 13 I think. |
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Yep must have been Cody. I dragged my parents and grandparents there to go the museum. They drug me out three hours later. We went on a trip to Montana and to visit where my grandpa was born in Thermopolis, Wy. Good luck on the sterlingworth sounds like a sweet gun. We will all want to see pictures if you get it of coarse.
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Just as a point of reference, the Fox Model B was introduced in 1940,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps58637c70.jpg (1940 Fox catalogue) and there was no such thing as a Stevens Model 311 until 1948. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...del3111948.jpg (1948 Savage/Stevens/Fox catalogue) From 1931 until WW-II there was a Springfield No. 311, but it was built on the old G.S. Lewis Patent stricker action. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...o311ST1933.jpg (1933 J. Stevens Arms Co. catalogue) The Springfield No. 311 was a cheaper version of the Riverside Arms Co./Springfield Arms Co. No. 315 and the slightly nicer J. Stevens Arms Co. No. 330. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...No561925-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...dPriceList.jpg |
Dave;
You never cease to amaze me. Interesting info, thanks. |
In the reference material I have on Sterlingworths one claims the first 20 gauge was seriel number 250,000 and the other says 250,100 . So the one I got tonight was either the 24th or 124th made as my seriel number is 250,124 !
Little gun is actually in pretty decent shape and the bores have no spots dings dents etc ! I also got the little H&R 16 gauge . Not a big deal but it's one of those that was made from 1908-1940 . The "Bay State" model ! I'll try the Sterlingworth on the skeet field wednesday ! |
Well now I have two 12 gauge Sterlingworths one from Philly and one from Utica as well as two Philly 20 gauge guns !
Only 16 Fox I have is a circa 1930 Utica Fox A . Now I need to run across a decent Philly 16 Sterlingworth preferrably 26" IC/M :rolleyes: |
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Yes this was the one they had in a 12 gauge ! |
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