Thanks again all. I'm especially glad Bruce chimed in. To the action length and Parker copy thoughts, yes when I was going through the old photos, there was a shot of my gun rack from 1976, and my first thought was "I don't remember that Parker" then oops, it was my Philly "B". If I could figure out how to get an old B/W photo to print here, that picture also shows my early "A", and the different length of the longer action on the Philly gun is very obvious and its easy to see why the AH Fox action weighs less than a like sized Parker.
Aside, mine has the J spring forend, and one of the known issues was the seller said the forend was a little loose. (This is gonna feel great if the problem and my fix isn't known.) The forend iron was bent slightly and so would rock a bit when the J spring pushes the tang tight against the barrel lug (it was very easy to miss the problem as the bend can't be seen with the wood in place. I only caught it because I attacked the problem with the forend wood removed.) While the forend iron's tang is pretty massive, the cut out for the J spring makes it weak at that spot and easier to bend, but also easier to straighten. A couple of raps with the tang spread across open vise jaws did the trick.
RickR
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