Sterlingworth Pin/Grouse Gun

[tom tutwiler]

Bought this one a few years ago. Needed a bit of help because it was loose where the head of the stock met the action. Dan Rossiter took care of that for me. In the process I had him blacken the 28" barrels and take out one dent. Chokes are .011 and .033.

This is one of the early ones marked "Sterlingworth Co" on the frame and the barrels. Dan also refinished the stock because the head was oil soaked. Finally had him add a NOS recoil pad and an Ivory bead.

I normally go through Foxes like a hot knife thru butter, but this one might be a keeper for grouse as a shooter. Gun weights 6 lb 12 oz. Min barrel wall thickness is .025 and that's way down towards the end. Drop a Heel is 2.5" and LOP is 14 1/8" to the end of the Pad. Little short, but at the end of the season with heavier clothes it won't matter much.

A few pics:

[charlie cleveland]

real nice gun a man could tote this gun all day and not have any trouble..i like the fox s but have yet to own one... charlie

[Craig Larter]

Very nice gun!!---the early pin guns marked The Sterlingworth Co. are the best. Hard to imagine $25.00 in 1910 and all the quality of a VH in my opinion. Soon after 1910 the accounting department must have realized something had to be done to turn a profit on this gun---unfortunately the finish quality suffered but the price remained stable for many years. I just bought one for my collection---neat guns.

[wayne goerres]

I own 1 sterlingworth and one a grade. Have yet to fire ether one.

[BRDHNTR]

Nice double

[paul stafford jr]

wish I had one, still looking

[Harold Pickens]

Nice gun Tom. I have one also marked" The Sterlingworth Co." It is also a light 12 with 4 weight barrels-28". I don't have a choke guage other than a little multi- guage tool and it is either a loose IC, or tight CYL in the right and mod in the left. I havnt weighed it, but it seems to be right around 7 lbs. I have carried it grouse hunting, and shot it this weekend at the Eastern shoot on sporting clays. I like mine.

[charlie cleveland]

i m still looking for mine too...you have a great lookin gun there sir... charlie

[Researcher]

The great bulk of the Sterlingworth "pin guns" I've recorded, and all three I own, are rather hefty 30-inch 12-gauges. Top a March 1910 vintage The Sterlingworth Co., middle 1912 vintage and bottom 1913-vintage ejector gun --





When the Sterlingworth came out in 1910 it had a price of $25. For 1916, the price was raised to $30 and climbed to $55 by 1919. A.H. Fox Gun Co. reduced the price to $48 in 1922 and again to $36.50 in 1926. Workmanship of course declined. Savage kept the $36.50 price until June 1932 when they upped it to $39.50. On February 10, 1936, they upped the price again to $42.85 (the digits 2 and 8 are transposed in McIntosh's book). On February 1, 1938, Savage tried a price cut and dropped it to $35. February 1, 1939, they upped the price to $44.75. January 2, 1940, up again to $48.50. January 2, 1941, up to $52.65 and June 16 up again to $56.50. January 2, 1942, up again to $64.95.

[Harold Pickens]

Just loaded 5 more boxes of 7/8 oz loads for my pin gun. You can see the old repair in the head of the stock. There is a small line of acraglass( I suppose) at the head--harder to see in this picture. Engraving on frame is actually quite sharp. Ser # 52042, 28", 14 1/2 lop