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Unread 01-16-2024, 09:19 PM   #3
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One would have to go through all the Fox-Sterlingworth production cards to get the number. I doubt Cody will ever do that.

From my 35 years of recording observed guns in the 12-gauges they seem to have been built in blocks. I've recorded a couple in the 1306xx serial number range with long backstrap trigger guards which were probably proof of concept guns. Then I've recorded four 28-inch barrel guns from 135605 to 135793 but I've recorded regular Fox-Sterlingworths in that range as well. The great bulk of the 12-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Guns are in the 160xxx range. I've recorded 21 from 160076 to 160434. These guns are a mix of barrels marked STERLINGWORTH FLUID COMPRESSED STEEL and SPECIAL ALLOY -- FORGED STEEL. Then a run of regular 26-inch barrel Fox-Sterlingworths. Finally, six more Skeet & Upland Game Guns from 160722 to 150818 all with SPECIAL ALLOY -- FORGED STEEL barrels.

How many more guns in these ranges were made is impossible to say.

When introduced in Savage's 1935 A.H. Fox catalog only 26-inch barrels were offered.

Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Gun 1935.jpg

By the 1937 Catalog they also offered 28-inch barrels.

Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Gun 1937.jpg

The Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Gun last appeared in the 1941 catalog --

Fox-Sterlingworth Skeet & Upland Game Gun 1941.jpg

A magazine ad from 1937 --

1937 Racy Skeet Model.jpg
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