Small Bore Fox upgrade

[tom tutwiler]

Some of the folks on the Parker Forum saw this gun last weekend at the NE SXS, but for others please enjoy.

Gun started life as a Fox Sterly 28" extractor 16 Gauge (Philly Gun) choked full/mod in great mechanical condition. With a nice stick of Turkish wood and a great engraver and stockmaker the following pictures are the outcome. Gun is 90 percent complete and still needs the buttplate checkered, stock checkered, case hardening etc..

The stock itself is amazing (Dan Rossiter does great work) and the engraving is some of the nicest I've seen. Took a few pictures, but it was dark outside (thunderstorms) and hence the pics inside the NE SXS tent required a slow shutter speed and I couldn't get the depth of field I wanted and the pics are a tad blury. Anyway, a few pictures. When its complete I'll take some more. Gournet was going to take some pictures of the gun and put it on his web site. He said it was something truly different compared to what he normally does. The gun just about a 100 percent copy of the first small bore DE grade Fox made, which was displayed in the DoubleGun Journal in 1995. Gournet did all the engraving based on the photos from the article. Both he and Dan are a pleasure to work with.

PS. This project from soup to nuts covered more then 3 years. One has to be patient as everyone seems to have a pretty large backlog of work.