AH Fox XE 16ga 30" circa 1914
 

A new addition to my Fox family.

Spectacular.:bowdown:

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

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

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

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

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

Beautiful Fox
 

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

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

Krupp

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.

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.

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

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

Man that nice nice!

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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

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"

So as you can see from the factory production card the DAH says 3 1/8". The stock measures 2 3/4" DAH. The checkering pattern is also a little different from XE's from the same period ( LPI and the checkering on the stock head). So today I decide to remove the trigger plate and photograph the head of the stock that should have the serial number and grade stamp. The serial number and grade are stamped correctly with factory stamps. As u can see the last digit 4 is stamped lightly for which I have no explaination except it is the same style font. So my take is the stock was replaced or bent early on in the gun's history. The stock and shape of the comb have all the chararistics of pre-1915 production. The rest of the story is lost to time.

Craig,
I wish I owned that XE. A bit jealous here!