My first Fox
 

I recently bought this Fox Sterling worth 16ga. It has 26 inch barrels and ejectors. It's been upgraded with engraving to resemble a CE perhaps and restocked. The stock has a lot of drop and the pitch is horrible. I'm thinking of taking it to a straight grip and restocking to suit me. I don't have much in it and it will make for a great Grouse gun and I really need another Grouse gun:rolleyes:

Someone put some money into it. XE engraving instead of CE. Interesting, they had the "Sterlingworth Compressed Steel" lettering altered on the top of the right barrel to just "Compressed Steel". Added the XE style ebony foreend tip as well. What stands out is the ejector escutcheon on the bottom. Only because all XE's were made after they had gone to the deeley style latch. Some of the early early graded Foxes (A, B, C, D) came with the sterly style ejector escutcheon but not the XE. I like the engraving. The stock work less so. Not sure if you could just replace the buttstock and keep the forearm. Looks like they used black walnut instead of circassian. Would be a fun grouse gun for sure.

The wood has all the figure of a telephone pole so it will be replaced with something much more appropriate. I'll need to find a straight grip trigger guard.

I don't know what happened to the first picture but I'll try it again. New computer:cuss:

Galazan makes them. I think it requires a drill and tap of the existing hole because the threads are different. Making a straight stock may require the tangs to bent a tad up so the stock doesn't look like a boat paddle.

If you don't want the Galazan straight trigger guard this fellow seems to have all original "in the white" parts.

http://www.pumpkinmountaingunshop.co...Gun_Parts.html

I am trying to add to my Fox collection and just bought a Sterlingworth Co. pin gun. The comb nose (is that the right term?) is shaped down like yours and that is the only thing I don't like about it. A straight grip stock would look great on yours

Nope!! See 16-gauge XE-Grade 300459, The Double Gun Journal, Volume Six, Issue 3, pages 59 to 63.

It is somewhat strange that someone put that much work into an upgrade and didn't use a nicer piece of wood?!?

Mills,

The stock on your new The Sterlingworth Co. gun, shown on the A.H. Fox Collectors Association, Inc. site is definitely not factory. Should have a nose to the comb that looks like this --

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psf2599456.jpg

A lot of the late Savage-era Fox guns didn't have a fluted comb --

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...jectorSUGG.jpg

For those of you not on the Fox forum . . .

http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1bbb236b.jpg

I'll take care of the lack of decent wood on the restock:) it will be a worthy specimen.